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Submit your OVERTIME question now for Bill and his roundtable guests, and selected questions will be answered on the HBO.com website, immediately following the Friday premiere of Real Time on 6/19/09.
Please be aware that concise, single-topic questions have the best chance of being selected.
Refresh the Bill Maher homepage right before midnight if you do not see the "Watch Overtime" video link.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 6/19/09
Jun 19, 2009 1:01 AM
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Bill and Panel,
Free universal healthcare and helping the poor. How did Jesus become emblematic of the Republican Party?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 6/19/09
Jun 18, 2009 10:06 PM
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Why do you use the M word so much?
You never use a hate word to describe
any other group.
I've never known a dwarf who didn't
learn in childhood that when he heard
"midget!" something bad was about to
go down. Dwarfs hear it so much they
react to it reflexively. Thats how a word
becomes a slur and you use it as a slur.
It is your show, and you can say anything
you want. As you say, its HBO.
So you got me, for all the good you do,
why do you single us out for harm.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 6/19/09
Jun 18, 2009 9:57 PM
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I know others have mentioned it, but I need to talk about PETA.
Your support of PETA is the one thing I don't get about you, Bill.
Does the man have the right to kill a pest that is a known vector of disease, or are you on PETA's side on this one too? I can't believe anyone would actually expect him to use that stupid humane flycatcher thing.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 6/19/09
Jun 18, 2009 7:41 PM
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I think the President is doing the right thing by letting Iran work out their struggle, do you?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 6/19/09
Jun 18, 2009 7:40 PM
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When is the President going to grow balls the size of Stephan Colbert's?
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Jun 18, 2009 7:32 PM
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To Bill, staff, panel, whoever,
What are your opinions on 9/11 conspiracy theories, more specifically the one about thermite being on the 81st floor of one of the towers? I hope you discuss this because I am not into conspiracy theories, but this one looks viable. A scientific paper was released in April where many scholars claim to have found evidence of thermite. Furthermore, an IT specialist who worked for Fuji on the 81st floor says there were loads of batteries on that floor which were never used. Pretty intriguing, but I'd like to hear your guys/gals opinions. Personally I don't know who to believe/trust in government anymore.
-Eric
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re: autism and Oprah and Jenny McCarthy
Jun 18, 2009 7:13 PM
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I too think Oprah and Jenny should be investigated because there are real facts out there about autism which has nothing to do with the measles vaccine or the amount of vaccines kids are exposed to. This is pseudoscience! and kids are getting HARMED by their well meaning parents who refuse to give their kids vaccines because of the worry Oprah, Jenny and the media propogate. Please go back a week or too on Questions for Overtime to when I gave you the name of the head of Autism research. Have him on your show!!!!Sometimes real facts don't come out because of the sensationalism the media likes to get wrapped up in.
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Obama ignores law he co-sponsored
Jun 18, 2009 3:52 PM
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124511811033017539.html
"There's also the question of how Mr. Walpin was terminated. He says the phone call came from Norman Eisen, the Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, who said the President felt it was time for Mr. Walpin to "move on," and that it was "pure coincidence" he was asked to leave during the St. HOPE controversy. Yet the Administration has already had to walk back that claim.
That's because last year Congress passed the Inspectors General Reform Act, which requires the President to give Congress 30 days notice, plus a reason, before firing an inspector general. A co-sponsor of that bill was none other than Senator Obama. Having failed to pressure Mr. Walpin into resigning (which in itself might violate the law), the Administration was forced to say he'd be terminated in 30 days, and to tell Congress its reasons."
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 6/19/09
Jun 18, 2009 3:30 PM
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*What does the panel think of the story that Italian customs inspectors found $134 billion in U.S. bonds in a suitcase carried by men attempting to cross the Swiss border?
*Why don't we follow China's lead in heavily enforcing anti-trust laws and making sure all stimulus funding is spent on American companies?
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'Well that's a stupid question!'
-Bill Maher
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 6/19/09
Jun 18, 2009 2:50 PM
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My newspaper just used 11 inches of type to print PETA's critique of Obama's fly killing. Two questions:
1. Should we support failing newspapers that think this is newsworthy?
2. Should PETA send him:
A. A humane "fly catch-and-release" thing, (They did.)
B. A hungry, unemployed frog,
C. Or just shut up and worry about pests that are more endangered... such
as Republicans.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 6/19/09
Jun 18, 2009 2:36 PM
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If President Obama truly gave a rat's ass about fixing health care in America, he would simply REVERSE THE HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION ACT OF 1973, in which then-President Richard Nixon silver-plattered a law as a personal favor to his buddy and campaign financier Edgar Kaiser (of Kaiser-Permenente) to declare that health insurance companies and health care providers could act as for-profit entities instead of purely service-provision entities.
Nixon gave the green light for the creation of HMOs and American health care has deteriorated further and further into the sh*tter ever since.
In a transcript of the conversation between Nixonand his Senior Domestic Advisor John Erlichman, Erlichman directly details the primary goal of the HMOA1973 as being pure profit for the health care industry.
http://www.kaiserpapershawaii.org/kaiserpermanentehistory.htm
"? the less care they give them, the more money they make."
Any talk of "reforming health care" that doesn't include the reversal/dismantling of HMOA1973 is pure rhetorical bullshit.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 6/19/09
Jun 18, 2009 2:35 PM
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is everything a joke to yall? you get serious but when an opposing view shows up you turn it into a joke because you dont have an intelligent response. i know this is supposed to be partially comedy but if you want any serious debate you will answer questions of people with different views rather than just your constituencies questions. besides you have all the answers so feel free to drop some knowledge on me potna(partner).
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Submit Questions for Overtime - 6/19/09
Jun 18, 2009 2:31 PM
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