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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 8/7/09.
Please be aware that concise, single-topic questions have the best chance of being selected.
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I've found Rush Limbaugh's online forever home!
Aug 7, 2009 4:04 PM
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I just heard about a new website on the news. http://thisiswhyyou'refat.com/ . I couldn't help but think of Rush. Here is one item (they have wonderful pictures) on the site: The Hurler Burger
A burger topped with Easy Cheese in a jelly donut. (I think he means cheese whiz)
(Submitted by Bob Phillips via trouttowers)'
Here's another:Mork?s Dork From Ork
A half pound duck and pork patty, cheddar cheese, seven pieces of maple bacon, sauteed onions and zillion island sauce on a kaiser roll.
Bill, you gotta check this out. The pictures can't be given their proper due in words.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/7/09
Aug 7, 2009 4:03 PM
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questions for Reps Issa and Kingston:
Are you holding Town Hall meetings on healthcare during the summer recess?
If so, what are you doing to maintain civil discussion?
If not, why aren't you hosting a Town Hall meeting?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/7/09
Aug 7, 2009 3:52 PM
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I keep seeing commercials with people bragging about how much they owed the IRS, but they only paid this much, usually around a third or less. What do I have to do to only pay a third of the taxes I owe?
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Who is not voting for change ?
Aug 7, 2009 3:48 PM
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Americans voted for change last fall in a big way. Who is NOT VOTING FOR CHANGE?
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Who was the Stimulus Package really intended for ????
Aug 7, 2009 3:45 PM
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Who is getting the STIMULUS MONEY?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/7/09
Aug 7, 2009 3:35 PM
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regarding health care policies,,
scenario, a patient gets laid off, has health multiple health problems, cannot afford medicine, and no insurance. Republicans say so what, let him deal with it and pay for it himself. With what?
Now the patient is in an ICU and you are paying for that since he couldn't get care or medications to prevent progressive illness leading to prolonged ICU stay. So what is the difference in payment, timing?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/7/09
Aug 7, 2009 3:34 PM
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For every news story or scandal that we hear about such as "C" street house what is the next step? After informing the public, could we have a way or two to voice our opinions? Lawmakers are not necessarily interested in what voters think.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/7/09
Aug 7, 2009 3:33 PM
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Cash for clunkers is widely popular and widely seen to be stimulating the economy. Are Republicans opposing it just because its working?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/7/09
Aug 7, 2009 3:28 PM
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REF: question about why we don't hear more about fascism.
I think it is because Democrats are too nice or are better put, are Pu**ies. Demo leaders should be reminding people constantly that Bush:
1. was sleeping at the wheel when he had pre 9/11 intell that planes were going to be used as weapons
2. huddled with the powerful to contract out gov jobs to private companies to make them richer. (How much has Blackwater and similiar companies made since 2001?)
3. sat by and watched as the poor and middle class were being squeezed (actually I think it was by designed).
4. Created the financial mess over 8 years of deregulation and now blame Obama because in six months he has not fixed all of the problems.
5. Intercepted our communications without probable cause and search warrants.
6. Took us to war on trumphed up phoney evidence and falsehoods.
7. Did NOTHING to solve our energy issues.
8. Appointed people to positions that would be loyal to him over the constitution.
9. Gave a massive tax cut to the rich which was suppose to lead to helping the economy, but all it did was make the gap between rich and poor bigger.
10. Flew over the victims of the floods in New Orleans and today many of them are still hurting, but when his rich friends on wall street needed money, he "threw" billions at them with no strings.
HE should have been impeached (Dick too), but the demos are too nice.
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GOP PAID DOMESTIC TERRORIST!!!
Aug 7, 2009 3:28 PM
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Hi Bill Please ask panal about the radical's paid for by the GOP to disrupt these town hall meeting .Ask if maybe the corporate medical industry might be chipping in on this as well. They are the one's with profit's to lose. Thanks B
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Aug 7, 2009 3:20 PM
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Is Iranian Intelligence behind the Twitter meltdown this week?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/7/09
Aug 7, 2009 3:19 PM
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> For there to be healthcare reform, there is going to
> have to be a lot of things reformed. Capitalism works
> for some things, but not for all. I do not understand
> why we can't adopt things that work, even if they are
> not part of the overall scheme. Healthcare is not
> working as a capitalist system. Healthcare should not
> be about making as much profit as you can, but
> instead be a utilitarianism idea, of the greater
> good. Healthcare reform is not going to work on its
> own.
> Some people are going to have to make sacrifices, and
> only make millions of dollars instead of billions. It
> is similar to the way that unions only try to get
> more for their members, never thinking, "hey I might
> just drive the people I am representing right out of
> a job." Not that unions are overall a bad thing, just
> that there has to be sacrifices. We do not need to
> get back to when things were good and booming, - that
> is how we got where we are. We need to move forward
> and realize that some of the billions of dollars
> being made have to decrease to measly millions of
> dollars. The wealthy can still be wealthy, just not
> quite AS wealthy.
I would argue that healthcare proper (developing and administering preventative techniques and treatments to patients) does work in a capitalist structure.
Why shouldn't health care professionals make profits for services rendered, and products developed and utilized?
It is INSURANCE COMPANIES that are the problem. They will always be in the business of maximizing the bottom line for the shareholders- as it is their mandate to do.
Hence we denied claims, denied coverage, and the added expense of executive and shareholder compensation.
Personally, I want my health care providers well compensated. It increases the probability that they will be talented.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/7/09
Aug 7, 2009 3:14 PM
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We hear a lot about liberals leading us down the road to socialism. Why do we not hear about conservatives leading us down the road to fascism? We used to think that fascism was our biggest threat, and now we seem to embrace it.
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I WANNA BE ON TEE VEE WITH BUBBA!!!!!!!!
Aug 7, 2009 3:14 PM
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Hi Bill I thought it was great that President Clinton was able to get those journalist out of N. Korea in about 30 hrs. Go ahead Bubba !! I was waiting for the usual GOP backlash to begin and of course it took about 15 minutes for that to begin. Can't the people of this country see what self serving corporate ass licker's the GOP really is. I could not believe your buddy John Bolton's reaction. He would rather see those girl's stay in that hellhole than see a Dem like Clinton go over and pull off something that Geo. W Bush could NEVER do. BE A DIPLOMAT !! Ask your panal what they think. Bubba went over with a case of Jack Daniel's and a couple of carton's of Marlboro's and the Republican's think that he sold out out the entire western world to Kim Jong Dumbfuck. Who are they trying to kid. As far as i'm concerned it just makes them all look like the assholes they really are. Yes even Mr McCain had to get his two cent's in. That was all it was worth. Rush Limbaugh had to make his crass comment's of course about Bubba making a play on the plane. Rush must have gotten some really good shit from his maid this week, he was on top of his game. GREAT JOB MR CLINTON ! YOU MADE AMERICA PROUD THIS WEEK ! And you didn't give up nothing but a little air time for Lil Kim! They should have brought along a hollywood hair stylist, Lil Kim would have liked that !!!!!
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Aug 7, 2009 3:14 PM
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I have read it is almost one in three in some states. So I have to carry uninsured and underinsured protection because they don't do what is legally required in most states. What's worse is that many of these don't have driver's licenses or have suspensed licenses.
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