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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 8/21/09.
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.
Please note: Video is optimized for use with Windows Media Player. Mac users will need Flip4Mac to view the stream.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 10/4/09
Oct 4, 2009 2:51 PM
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The private insurance companies treat sick patients like toxic assets.
Why then, do they oppose a public option?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/21/09
Oct 3, 2009 5:07 PM
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Who is the brilliant scientist at NASA that conceived the idea of firing a missile at the moon to check for water? If they don't know if there is water under the surface, how do they know that there isn't explosive material? So they fire a missile at the moon, and at minimum destroy part of the surface, at worst, blow it up completely sending debris towards the earth.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/21/09
Oct 2, 2009 11:21 PM
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I COME FROM CHILE AND LEFT AFTER THE COUP DE ETAT OF 9/11/1973
THE RETORIC PRIOR TO THE COUP AGAINST ELECTED PRESIDENT ALLENDE, WAS SO SIMILAR TO WHAT WE ARE HEARING THESE DAYS AGAINST PRESIDENT OBAMA,IT IS SCARY.....THIS KIND OF LANGUAGE AND PROPAGANDA WAS USED FOR MONTHS , AND PEOPLE BEGAN TO BELIEVE IT AND WERE HAPPY TO SEE CHILE "SAVED" BY PINOCHET......!!!!!!
ASK THEM NOW IF IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO SUPPORT.......
THE CIA HAS ADMITTED THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN THE CHILEAN COUP....THE CURRENT LANGUAGE IS TOO SIMILAR TO IGNORE.
MR FRIEDMAN'S ARTICLE MAKES SENSE, LETS BE VIGILANT,THIS CLIMATE OF HATRED AND DIVISION WILL CONTINUE AS LONG AS THOSE ACCUSTOMED TO BE IN POWER HAVE MONEY TO KEEP THE FIRE GOING. AND THEY DON;T STOP UNTIL THEY GET THE POWER BACK.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/21/09
Oct 2, 2009 10:33 PM
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Does it scare you that the Federal Reserve, which is not part of the federal government, dictates American policies at home and abroad?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/21/09
Oct 2, 2009 10:13 PM
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Why isn?t the government prosecuting the CEOs guilty of fraudulent derivative trading to the approximate amount of $200 trillion?
I saw Michael Moore?s CAPITALISM movie today and it?s excellent, funny but very sad. He interviews William Black, attorney, professor who was a director of the agency similar to the FDIC during the time of the S&L bankruptcies. He says these derivative investments were almost entirely fraudulent - the investors participating and the investments themselves. It?s estimated the wealth of all the economies in the world is $97 trillion. The U.S. OCC issues a quarterly report on bank derivative holdings and they equal about $200 trillion; and this amount is way out of line. And this OCC report has been made for years. This is no accident; this horrendous problem was planned. I think the financial CEOs trade misevaluated properties back and forth, each time inappropriately valuing them for more. Thus they would make sellers? commissions and profit for their companies and the CEO bonuses that go with it; like a good guys CEO fraud club to the tune of $200 trillion - they took the money and ran and don't care what they leave behind, except that they want to buy it for give away prices, and then cause huge inflation. The commissions for CEOs on that amount are likely around $20 trillion. Additionally Matt Taibbi in ROLLING STONE April 2009 The Big Takeover states the FDIC secretly under President Bush gave these financial crooks $3 trillion with few restrictions and sloppy ineffective accounting. Attorney Black is of the obvious opinion that those people appearing guilty, criminal and civil defendants, should be prosecuted. And the $7 billion TARP given to the financials, again with sloppy accounting and few restrictions, didn?t seem to get around to many loans; they surely got around to bonuses because these basically bankrupt companies claimed they had made money. They made the money the taxpayers handed over to them. No one has handed anything over to the millions of laid off, bankrupt, losing their homes U.S. citizens. The next step in this deliberately caused scenario, is that these financial CEO crooks will steal at give away prices the homes of those they bankrupted. I think the bank solvency test they recently completed is also a fraud. Banks with that many mostly worthless assets on their books should taken over by the government, while keeping capital flowing. The government should put in most ENTIRELY new management; indict those CEOs and employees responsible and require their cooperation in the management takeover, then roll out the TARP government aid ? with restrictions. Geithner is responsible for much of this problem because of his role in the bank bailouts, and he is one of the last people who should be appointed to head the U.S. Treasury. Geither has also come up with the idea and implementation that the financial institutions should keep the good assets (maybe the 10% of the $200 trillion of phony derivatives) and the public should be responsible for the rest (the financial CEOs fraud). This enables these crook CEOs to flee and leave a wrecked U.S. behind. This scenario brings to my mind pictures of Hurricane Katrina and the incompetent (to say the least) U.S. government response, and the resulting victims. Under President Bush the government also secretly backed the financial industry for $5 trillion insurance for the financial industries (and as you would expect, to be paid by the public). Moore?s CAPITALISM movie goes light on the prosecution and return of around $23 trillion ? but he surely shows why it is due. The capitalism side has problems; but the government side also has terrible problems. Without prosecuting and getting the money and assets back, more regulations will have some BS loopholes for them to get by. AS OF THIS TIME, the government appears to me to be complicit in this economy breaking, program breaking, democracy breaking, society breaking, and law breaking scam. STOP BREAKING THE LAWS AND START ENFORCING THEM.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/21/09
Oct 2, 2009 8:29 PM
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When the financial fall out was at its peak and the gov't was debating on what they were'nt gonna do, why did the media introduce a health scare with the H1N1 flu, was that a "Well at least you still have your health" OOOPS!
When are we gonna stand up(pete Domonic) when are we gonna say enough is enough!
Is there anybody listening?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/21/09
Oct 2, 2009 8:09 PM
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Bill,
i think i know why america doesnt stand up for itself on any of the important issues.......
Ok, ah what was i saying!!! Ah! nevermind OOOH! Hero's is on gotta go!
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/21/09
Oct 2, 2009 8:09 PM
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Why do good God fearing Christians like to play God and denounce Health Care to all and trying to heal the sick?
Also Is Real Time with Bill Maher going on year around like an adult Meet The Press with a few weeks here and there for breaks? Much needed Henry Rollins V Ann Coulter or any other high ranking Right wing nut preferable male to watch him piss his pants and be out witted?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/21/09
Oct 2, 2009 7:53 PM
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When are you gonna have some American dissidents in your panel? You know the usual suspects like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, ect.. If you are not allowed Rep. Alan Grayson would be nice consolation guest.
Thanx
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/21/09
Oct 2, 2009 7:31 PM
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Tell everyone to donate to Allan Grayson... he's obviously the only one in Congress with heart and balls!
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/21/09
Oct 2, 2009 7:26 PM
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Bill,
Q: How do you get 300,000,000 unemployed bankrupt americans pissed?
A: Change the channel line up!
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/21/09
Oct 2, 2009 7:18 PM
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Oh Shit! did that sound negative?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/21/09
Oct 2, 2009 7:16 PM
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This is for the scatter brained and focus impaired wannabe american dream groupies! The dream is dead, It died with your capitulation to the boob tube commercial and the mass produced widget your programming is complete we have achieved a hightened state of stupid and lazy Rejoice!!! have a Starbucks $10.00 coffee! and ponder how your gonna out do yourself in the next year, Maybe you can buy something really big and pointless so your neighbor might think your not such a loser HA! Ha! fooled him!
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 8/21/09
Oct 2, 2009 7:03 PM
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Bill,
Have you seen the film "Zeitgeist"?
www.zeitgeistmovie.com
Thanks,
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Their puppet masters have spoken and the media have begun their Sarah Palin propaganda onslaught. The media lackeys will, over the next three years, miraculously transform this witless and snarling aberration into a trailblazing maverick rogue victimized by the ?liberal? media compelling her equally witless, gushing and gullible audience to propel her to the GOP 2012 presidential nomination. Why else did the silly cow quit as governor?
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