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Totally missed that on the guest lineup---thought Moore was the only big name. Real Time is definitely going to be interesting this week if the shutdown is still a thing by then, though I think they are on break next week.
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Jastiger posted:Also next week is Dawkins AND Sharpton? Gotta watch that one. Two weeks to be specific. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ErV3i1S-Q Christopher Hitchens vs. Al Sharpton
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Ya they're on break this week. Has anyone ever gotten tickets to the show? I requested some a few weeks ago and wasn't sure when they notified you if you got them.
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Steinuh posted:Ya they're on break this week. Has anyone ever gotten tickets to the show? I requested some a few weeks ago and wasn't sure when they notified you if you got them. Give it time. I called them 3 weeks out for some tickets and they called 4 days before. They also returned all three of my calls. 4 days before each of the shows, but they returned them all. That was too short notice for me so I didn't take them. No idea if by e-mail works any better.
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Ya I emailed them a few weeks ago but mostly looking to get some the weekend of Blizzcon to go with some Goons. I'll give them a call to see if that's better.
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Oct 16, 2013 10:04
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Zogo posted:Two weeks to be specific. Thats not a Real Time though...
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This is making the rounds care of whatever PR department handles Maher's social media: http://instagram.com/p/flr6fOSUPT/  Bill Maher and Woody Harrellson apparently smoking a big joint. How long do you think until LAPD busts his rear end? Oh wait, they're wealthy and white, never-mind. Michael Scott fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Oct 18, 2013 |
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Nothing happened to Zach Galafanakis for sparking up on air. They care about the *dealers* and busting teenagers. And if it went to trial, there's no way they could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 1) that's pot, and 2) that he did nothing other than hold it. You also forget that the LAPD never seriously goes after celebrities.
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I don't believe Zach Galafanakis smoked real weed on the show. I know a guest said "lol smells real!" but I don't buy it. Maher even confirmed afterwards (to CNN in a tangential interview) that it was cloves and Maher doesn't seem like someone that would try to save face by lying about that. Not to get anal but that photo, if it was someone else smoking and it was found in an investigation, could be used as probable cause for a search warrant. Same as seeing a joint through a window. I'm just saying LAPD wouldn't ignore it if they saw someone smoking something like that. It's nice that him and his PR firm thinks weed is becoming accepted enough across the country to post that though.  That is a positive.
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Michael Scott posted:This is making the rounds care of whatever PR department handles Maher's social media: A blurry washed out photo of a guy holding a joint. Im sure their best detective would be on that case if he were black.
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So is everyone on CNBC just a complete shithead?
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Business "journalism" self-selects for a certain type, yes.
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Lee Harvey Oswald posted:So is everyone on CNBC just a complete shithead? Watch some Jim Cramer clips from "Mad Money" on Youtube, then watch the interview he had with Jon Stewart where he basically bobbleheads the entire time to criticisms of his show and methodology...then goes back to doing everything he was being lambasted for. CNBC exists solely to benefit high-cap investors who bet *against* the people who are big enough suckers to believe talking heads care about *them* making money. The only truth one ever gets from "business" channels are the market indices, and you can get more current ones on your phone. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Oct 20, 2013 |
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For the lineup last night the show was kind of a dud. The "just exactly how evil are muslims" debate has been done ~15 times on the show and it's less interesting every time. The only thing I learned was that Dawkins was an Elvis fan. It surprises me that in 2013 this ACA site could fail at this level. I'd be interested in reading the actual technical failings concerning it but every article on it seems to be partisan BS with Republicans acting like it's the worst disaster in US history or Democrats diminishing it to the point you'd think most web sites on the internet regularly failed their basic functions. OT was more informative. BIG HEADLINE posted:The only truth one ever gets from "business" channels are the market indices, and you can get more current ones on your phone. Fox News says that they give me the "power to prosper" but when I look at their typical show lineup it's littered with infomercial shows like: -Brazil Butt Lift -I hate my butt! -Never rake again! -Quit your job! Actual show names.
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Actually there's been a lot written about CGI Federal and QSSI the past couple weeks. You're right though in that a lot of the problem now is everyone pointing the finger at everyone else and not willing to take the blame for their own fuckups. The problem's the same as it always is with the contracting process involving separate systems developed by different companies having to work together. Also yeah Dick Dorkins is the last person who needs to be speaking out about the evils of Islam. He's basically one step removed from Pamela Geller at this point. Alec Bald Snatch fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Oct 26, 2013 |
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Oct 26, 2013 23:16
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Maajid Nawaz was actually an incredibly interesting guest and had a good panel discussion on the overtime segment and now I feel like reading his book about leaving fundamentalist Islam.
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I like it when Bill Maher confronts the politically correct bullshit in regards to Islam and this time we had two of it's biggest apologists on, Moore & Sharpton. Michael Moore is such an insufferable shithead. When Maher was pointing out that women have virtually no rights in the muslim world, Moore responds with a rape statistic we have here in the United States. Moore completely knew what Maher was saying, as in women have RIGHTS here such as being able to work, vote, wear what they want, marry WHO they want. etc. and yet he chose to play dumb, because he knew what he was saying was true. Of course Sharpton took the line straight out of the SJW handbook & said "all religions have wackos, not just Islam!". It's also hilarious how both of them said Christian Wackos are just as dangerous as Muslim Wackos with straight faces.
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If America were subject to a few decades of foreign-bankrolled tinpot dictatorships and constant third world poverty the Southern Baptist Convention and their ilk would be flying planes into buildings and blowing up shopping malls too. As it is they've had to settle for blowing up abortion clinics and the occasional shooting.
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Wow I didnt know dick dorkins had an SA account
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Out of curiosity, what Christian group was Valerie Plame talking about when the subject turned to Christian Extremism (or lack thereof)?
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She was talking about Christian Dominionism, which seems kind of straw man-ish to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Theology There's a few alarmist click bait articles on liberal click bait factory websites about them as but as far as I can tell fears about them are mostly contrived nonsense.
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Pryor on Fire posted:She was talking about Christian Dominionism, which seems kind of straw man-ish to me. Nah it's definitely a part of the overall mish-mash of theology at places like Regent/ORU/Liberty whose law schools give us a significant percentage of our republican elected officials and their staffers. They're not as prevalent as they were when Bush was in charge and a lot of those people were given free reign in various federal agencies, but there's still a number working their way through state governments. But that's more to do with conservative christianity's overall numbers dwindling.
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comes along bort posted:If America were subject to a few decades of foreign-bankrolled tinpot dictatorships and constant third world poverty the Southern Baptist Convention and their ilk would be flying planes into buildings and blowing up shopping malls too. As it is they've had to settle for blowing up abortion clinics and the occasional shooting.
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Stay Out of FYAD posted:Women have no rights in the middle east along with people being executed for leaving the Muslim faith because of America, news at 11. Hmm...I kinda remember this other country loving about in Afghanistan for a while, but the name escapes me.
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comes along bort posted:Hmm...I kinda remember this other country loving about in Afghanistan for a while, but the name escapes me.
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Stay Out of FYAD posted:Because women had rights and people weren't executed for leaving the Muslim faith before America was ever in the Middle East, correct? It's as if you're genetically predisposed to completely missing the point.
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comes along bort posted:It's as if you're genetically predisposed to completely missing the point. People like you disgust me in general. You act as if one criticizes Christianity he's an intellectual, if one criticizes Islam then he's a bigot. Hypocrisy at it's finest.
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Stay Out of FYAD posted:Women have no rights in the middle east along with people being executed for leaving the Muslim faith because of America, news at 11. The Middle East is not the entirety of the Muslim world. But I guess I shouldnt expect nuance from some dumbass who thinks that a country with 11% Muslim population is somehow a Muslim country.
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Stay Out of FYAD posted:No, you're missing the point. You're trying to get me to defend "American Exceptionalism" talking points when that's not what I'm arguing. You, and most people who apologize for Islamic terrorism or Islam in general typically bring up US foreign policy first. Holy gently caress you are dense.
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AShamefulDisplay posted:The Middle East is not the entirety of the Muslim world. AShamefulDisplay posted:But I guess I shouldnt expect nuance from some dumbass who thinks that a country with 11% Muslim population is somehow a Muslim country.
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Stay Out of FYAD posted:No, you're missing the point. You're trying to get me to defend "American Exceptionalism" talking points when that's not what I'm arguing. You, and most people who apologize for Islamic terrorism or Islam in general typically bring up US foreign policy first. Settle down, Beavis.
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AShamefulDisplay posted:Holy gently caress you are dense.
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Stay Out of FYAD posted:Never said it was. Stay Out of FYAD posted:women have virtually no rights in the muslim world, Stay Out of FYAD posted:Because women had rights and people weren't executed for leaving the Muslim faith before America was ever in the Middle East, correct? quote:What country are you referring too? Kenya
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Stay Out of FYAD posted:Yes because Islamic Theocracies have had such an amazing human rights' track record before the US ever showed up, specifically in regards with women and leaving the faith. No worse than the Western World until about, say, 30 years ago. Oh, you mean actual theocracies? The only actual theocracies in the Muslim world are few and far between since the advent of Colonialism.
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AShamefulDisplay posted:You are equating the Middle East with the Muslim World. You'll also notice when I said that I the conversation wasn't explicitly talking about Kenya. It was about Muslims targeting Non-Muslims in the third world, and each other. You know, the Sunni & Shia stuff.
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Stay Out of FYAD posted:If this bothers you then you know what I'm saying about the Middle east is true. quote:You'll also notice when I said that I the conversation wasn't explicitly talking about Kenya. It was about Muslims targeting Non-Muslims in the third world, and each other. You know, the Sunni & Shia stuff. Fair enough, but again this is a feature of ex-colonial societies and is not an inherent problem of Islam.
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AShamefulDisplay posted:not inherently problems with Islam. The Quran puts men in power over women, just as any set of rules from seventh century Arabia would. Colonialism didn't invent patriarchy. Anyway, Al Sharpton looks like he's starving to death and Bill Maher is coloring his hair again.
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Animal-Mother posted:The Quran puts men in power over women, just as any set of rules from seventh century Arabia would. Colonialism didn't invent patriarchy. Yes, and the same is true for a whole host for religions in general. Hell, look at the misogyny in the modern Atheist movement. Colonialism didnt invent patriarchy, but neither did Islam.
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AShamefulDisplay posted:Not at all. The problem with your argument is that these issues you are trying to pass of as Islamic issues are ones that are a feature of the developing world, and are not inherently problems with Islam. Look at how women are treated in India, South Africa, all across South America, China, etc. All of these countries have something in common that has nothing to do with Islam: colonialism.  http://www.examiner.com/article/study-muslims-favor-sharia-death-penalty-for-leaving-islam quote:A new study from the Pew Research Center shows that a majority of Muslims favor sharia law, and majorities in six countries support the death penalty for anyone who leaves Islam. Also, according to you that it's not inherently a problem with Islam, please explain why Islam receives a double standard in the Media when Christianity does not. You think the Qur'an could've had a good reception on Broadway the same way the Book of Mormon did? Of course not, because people are afraid that Muslims will retaliate. AShamefulDisplay posted:Yes, and the same is true for a whole host for religions in general. Hell, look at the misogyny in the modern Atheist movement. Colonialism didnt invent patriarchy, but neither did Islam.
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