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Oh, Janeane, if only we’d listened….

“I’m feeling a little nostalgic for a time when we didn’t yet know how shitty things were going to be….”

This aired a month before the Iraq war began. I know this is old news, but I’m feeling a little nostalgic for a time when we didn’t yet know how shitty things were going to be, when we could only guess at it.

The language Brian Kilmeade uses perfectly sums up typical right wing belligerence; this kind of verbal obfuscation and unmitigated arrogance has stymied this country for eight years and contributed to a national inability to hold a meaningful dialogue with someone with an opposing viewpoint. Please note his insistence on the missing Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Highlights from “Real TIme with Bill Maher”
Okay, we’ve got Janeane Garofalo, Salman Rushdie…and Rob Thomas?!?!

Lastly, the sound is out of sync on this but Maher makes some excellent points about organized religion so I’m going to post it anyway. For the record, Maher has always struck me as awfully smarmy and arrogant and I really hate those qualities in people; though it seems in this day and age that arrogance is now needed simply to stand one’s ground:

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Note to Europeans

I did not mean what I said earlier about you guys being assholes. My comment was purely for comedic effect. You know that I like a lot of you, especially the Brits. Really, a whole lot, the Brits.

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Poor Purple Martin

“Fucking Europeans! Even their birds are assholes.”

We all know how the Native Americans of North America were royally screwed by the White Man and His Manifest Destiny. According to a plaque in an exhibit outside of the Whitney Museum of American Art, no Native American is safe.

Here, the tragic story of the Purple Martin (Progne subis) –martyr and disenfranchised bird of color:

“We are native Americans. When European starlings arrive, they fill our nesting cavities with materials blocking our entrance, destroy our eggs, corner us in our homes and even peck us to death. Every fall we head for South America, but the starlings stick around, claiming our nesting cavities. We are now entirely dependent on human supplied housing east of the Rockies. We especially like the hollow white gourds you see below.”

Fucking Europeans! Even their birds are assholes.

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