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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Short takes

"Messages to the 99%"
from the "Real Time With Bill Maher" blog
The silly season is upon us, and who better to help us get through it but Bill Maher. Here are some quotables from Friday night's episode of Real Time With Bill Maher:
Rick Perry has dropped 20 points in the polls in one week. They say he's so depressed about this, he hardly has the energy to execute anybody.
—Bill Maher
An election is a job interview, and if you hire a plumber who tells you he can't fix your toilet but he'll pray for the water to recede, the 6 inches of sh*t in your bedroom is what you deserve.
—Bill Maher

On Occupy Wall Street:
They say "class warfare," but really, when it's only 0.3%, or 0.03%, who has that huge amount of wealth, it's not a class, it's a club.
—Bill Maher
On cutting EPA regulations:
The Republicans have one trick, which is to trick the working class into voting for tax cuts for the rich. And then they want to trick the breathing class into cutting protections for breathers.
—Bill Maher
[Cutting EPA regulations] are actually jobs bills. These relaxed standards are going to cause 2500 additional cases of cancer every year. Each diagnosed case of cancer is worth a quarter-million bucks to the medical industry.
—Thom Hartmann 
And finally, unrelated to Bill Maher, but I can't decide if this YouTube video makes me want to vote for or against Herman Cain. You be the judge: