Published: May 19th, 2012 at 1:11 pm ET
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Real Time with Bill Maher
HBO
May 19, 2012
“Arizona’s secretary of state — Arizona, nothing wrong with that state that a crippled Japanese nuclear plant couldn’t solve — said he might refuse… to put Obama’s name on ballot [because of birth certificate].”
Published: May 19th, 2012 at 1:11 pm ET
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Bill is an idiot, not funny at all..
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Someone double check me on this…I could have sworn he was quoting what "Arizona's Secretary of State" said….
Which makes it even worse.
Off the wall shit…damn
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Well, at least he gives it some visibility, despite the careless comments.
Keep talking Bill. You may get an inadvertent education in the process, and neither you, who lives in California, nor the people of California and Arizona will like what you find out.
Now, anybody wishing evil upon poor misguided Bill can rest easy – he's in the most radioactive part of the west coast and, in accordance with the breadth of his great learning, he doesn't know it.
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I've been tweeting him for about a week now @billmaher
Along with @MariaCantwell @genpatsu @BBC @PBS @maddow @LAW @HumanRight @BetteMidler @BettyMWhite @erinbrockovich1 @MSNBC @CBS @BillMoyers @MarloThomas @undecidedbook (the last came from an article at HP yesterday…something about the WAR on women. I told them WHAT ABOUT JAPANESE MOTHERS AND CHILDREN!)
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Soon to add twenty more.
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Go Whoopie! Great stuff
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whoopie, your the best!!
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BM is useless.
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++++
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I am starting to think the majority of Americans get, what they think is the 'real' news', primarily from comedians and late night talk shows.
Between MSM's near complete silence, when actually they should be screaming, and talk show hosts misguided misinformation, no wonder everybody remains confused.
"…'A' crippled Japanese nuclear power plant. " (What?)
Sorry Bill, but your feeble understatement is 'crippling' the minds of many who really should know the truth.
Try TRIPLE MELTDOWNS and the continued TRIPLE THREAT from accumulation of radioactive contamination to our air, water and soil with no definitive plans, no information and no cooperation. NONE!
Did I also forget to mention the FACT that the 'situation' has been stated by multiple 'experts', industry professionals, as a "ticking time bomb!". I would go further and say, MULTIPLE ticking time bombs with hair triggers and no obvious 'off' switch.
Except these particular nuclear bombs, (NPPs), are threatening an entire planet.
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I think that trend started during the Iraq War where people would tune into The Daily Show, or mainly TV rather than newspapers.
Now, the trend is actually changing:
Survey: More Americans get news from Internet than newspapers or radio
March 01, 2010|By Doug Gross, CNN
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-03-01/tech/social.network.news_1_social-networking-sites-social-media-social-experience?_s=PM:TECH
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ChasAha,
Thus the importance of sites like enenews…
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CAPTD JUST TWEETED THIS. IF YOU HAVEN'T, SIGN IT AND SPREAD
Progressives United / Action / Turn the Tide in California
http://www.progressivesunited.org/action…
Progressives are uniting to tell holdout state legislators in California to pass the California DISCLOSE Act and end secret money in state elections. I've been offline a few.
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Reminds me of when John Stewart mentioned Fukushima, once.
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Bill Maher's joke is extremely sick. Someone should make him spend 6 months at Fukushima taking care of the children. Then see if he still thinks this is funny.
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"Arizona's Secretary of State" said….
But I agree send them both.
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YAJ = Yet another member of the 'tribe' in the media, shooting his mouth off. Sure, you're chosen – but for what? lol
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Sorry to display my ignorance, but I'm not sure what he is talking about. Can someone please explain to me the joke that he was trying to make? (The clip here doesn't provide much context and I haven't been following Arizona news.)
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I believe that he thinks living in Arizona is so bad that a crippled japanese reactor will improve things. I live in AZ, and yes it is hot, and dry, but I could go without the fallout.
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Or perhaps that life is so bad in Arizona, that a Japanese crippled reactor would kill everybody in Arizina, problem solved???
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Ummm … Maher spoke out early on re the Fuku disaster in Japan. He interviewed Michio Kaku 4/15/11. In spite of the humor (and his show is entertainment) I think his views about the accident are clear.
Whether you think he is funny or not …
http:/www.youtube.com/watch?=0Wd1qPUjHxQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
If that link doesn't work search Real Time with Bill Maher HBO Michio Kaku physicist Fukushima Reactors.
[I am techno challenged and have had to resort to my old dial up connection tonight and tooooo sloooow to do youtube so the url was hand typed in. My cell inet is messed up ... as it has been before during solar flares.]
Respectfully, I am actually wondering why this particular headline was relevant at all to Ene. ???
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Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wd1qPUjHxQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Cell connect back; pls google if that one still doesn't work. Otherwise I don't think there is much point here in discussing what his joke about AZ meant.
Respectfully again.
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Irradiated, I agree, but you know that we're both passing up a golden, (albeit trivial) opportunity to get vewy vewy indignant and rightous here.
Especially if you take that little clip as the comedian's entire message.
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@Sandman .. I ma just gonna .. not comment on your comment.
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@bake, respectfully, good question in a way. There was the earlier j Leno clip on the LA npp, so maybe that sets the precedent. Ah, it's a grey area, I don't mind some divergence anyway, it adds dimension to the issues.
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And if you all must know and didn't google already most recent news I can find is that the AZ sec of state has requested a copy of Obama's birth certificate from from hawaii.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2012/05/18/20120518arizona-secretary-of-state-obama-citizenship.html
Denies he's a "birther" tho ..
Again .. relevance to Fuku here?? Respectfully.
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Added quote:
"Arizona's secretary of state — Arizona, nothing wrong with that state that a crippled Japanese nuclear plant couldn’t solve — said he might refuse… to put Obama's name on ballot [because of birth certificate]."
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TY EneAdmin. Not for me .. but that you listen and work for fairness here.
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Actually, the US does have a nuclear crisis already; it is just covered up and denied.
nuclear DU testing
nuclear medicine
nuclear plants leaking
nuclear open air tests
nuclear military/college plants
uranium mining
nuclear… ad infinitum…
just the tip of the iceberg above.. see blog below.
The Nuclear Fuel Chain That Leads To Nuclear Bombs; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/nuclear-fuel-chain-that-leads-to.html
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Thanks, AGreenRoad. And let's not forget the huge white elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about:
U.S. spent fuel pools are over-crowded, with no plan currently underway to remove and permanently store the spent fuel (highly irradiated nuclear waste), and are projected to reach CAPACITY in THREE YEARS, by 2015!!!
Read this excellent report by Robert Alvarez detailing the problem, as well as an analysis of Fukushima and a comparison of the amount of spent fuel the U.S. has which DWARFS the amount of fuel rods at Fukushima:
http://www.ips-dc.org/files/3200/spent_nuclear_fuel_pools_in_the_US.pdf
There is even a photo of the explosion at the Reactor #4 spent fuel pool, something I hadn't seen previously. Looks as bad as the explosion at #3 if you ask me…(though Robert titles the photo "hydrogen explosion at Fuel Pool #4", whereas many believe the explosion at #3 was nuclear, due to criticality. Not sure how they determined #4's explosion was indeed due to hydrogen…
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