Adapted from Rant of the Week at The Stars Hollow Gazette
Tag: Rant of the Week
Mar 30 2014
Bill Maher’s New Rules: The Power of Language
Mar 25 2014
Bill Maher’s New Rules: Noah’s Ark, God and Religion
Adapted from The Rant of the Week at The Stars Hollow Gazette
“What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he’s mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie.”
“Hey, God, you know you’re kind of a dick when you’re in a movie with Russell Crowe and you’re the one with anger issues.”
“You know conservatives are always going on about how Americans are losing their values and their morality, well maybe it’s because you worship a guy who drowns babies.”
“If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away.”
“I’m reminded as we’ve just started Lent, that conservatives are always complaining about too much restraining regulation and how they love freedom, but they’re the religious ones who voluntarily invent restrictions for themselves. On a hot summer day, Orthodox Jews wear black wool, on a cold winter night Mormons can’t drink a hot chocolate… isn’t life hard enough without making shit up out of thin air to fuck with yourself?”
Mar 16 2014
Arizona’s Religious Freedom Bill & Self-Professed Gays
Adapted from Rant of the Week at The Stars Hollow Gazette
The gay-stream media compares Arizona’s refusal of service bill to Jim Crow laws, but Rep. Steve King argues that “self-professed behavior” doesn’t qualify for civil rights
Mar 11 2014
The Persecuted 1%
And finally, New Rule: Someone must tell me what is with this new trend of people who have all the power acting like they’re the oppressed ones? Heterosexual Christians under siege from gays. White people complaining that reverse racists are trying to strip them of their right to shoot unarmed black men. And most bizarre, the recent wave of billionaires sobbing that they’re being demonized and under attack. And the thing is, it’s not just having all the money in the world that’s getting them down, it’s that the rest of us don’t often enough look at them and say, “You are the most brilliant industrious person on Earth. Can you teach us how to be more like you while we buff your cock with this fine Sham-Wow?”
You know, I used to think Hollywood egos were the neediest, but these Masters of the Universe? More like babies on a plane. Stock trader Steve Schwarzman – net worth $8 billion – once said that Obama raising his taxes 3% felt like when Hitler invaded Poland. Sounds like something Sarah Palin would tweet after huffing paint thinner. (audience laughter) But with the super-rich it’s becoming a meme. Now we have Tom Perkins – net worth $8 billion – saying the richest 1% are so persecuted in America, they feel like Jews in Nazi Germany. Which is why just to be safe, last week Tom built a panic room inside his mansion that’s a full-size replica of Anne Frank’s house.
h/t to Bruin Kid at Daily Kos for the transcript
Mar 02 2014
Jon Stewart: Romancing the Drone
Adapted from The Rant of the Week at The Stars Hollow Gazette
The Obama administration explores the legal ramifications of aerial citizen reduction programs.
Senator Carl Levin stages an intervention for American drone policy, but the Obama administration refuses to admit it has a problem
Feb 21 2014
Keith Olbermann on Michael Sam
Adapted the Rant of the Week st The Stars Hollow Gazette
At the beginning of February, University of Missouri defensive end, Michael Sam announced that he was gay. The fall out from that was predictable with support coming openly from most of the press and many players, as well as NFL officials. However, there were the usual anonymous “manly men”, expressing the usual homophobic memes about naked men in locker rooms. ESPN’s Keith Olbermann weighed in on the homophobia of the nameless NFL executives and highlighted a fellow sports caster’s criticism of Sam’s spineless detractors.
Michael Sam makes a brave and courageous entrance into the NFL…and he is met by men too weak to stand behind their own words. Keith explains.
Feb 16 2014
Stephen Colbert: Thrift Justice
Adapted from Rant of the Week at The Stars Hollow Gazette
A ban on a lethal injection drug has state officials thinking outside of the box for new ways to put people in a box
Ohio Execution Using Untested Drug Cocktail Renews the Debate Over Lethal Injections
By Rick Lyman. The New York Times
Dennis McGuire took 15 minutes to die by lethal injection Thursday morning at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville for the 1989 rape and murder of a 22-year-old pregnant woman named Joy Stewart.
Eyewitness accounts differ slightly on how much Mr. McGuire, 53, struggled and gasped in those final minutes. But because the execution took unusually long and because Ohio was using a new, untested cocktail of drugs in the procedure, the episode has reignited debate over lethal injection.
States have been scrambling in recent years to come up with a new formula for executions after their stockpiles were depleted or expired when European manufacturers of such previously used drugs as pentobarbital and sodium thiopental stopped selling them for use in executions. No consensus has formed on what available drugs should be used.
Lethal injection drug blocked by judge
from The Guardian
Compounding pharmacy called the Apothecary Shoppe told not to supply Missouri government with unofficial pentobarbital mix
A US federal judge has temporarily blocked an Oklahoma compounding pharmacy from selling a drug to the Missouri department of corrections for use in an upcoming execution.
The restraining order was issued in a lawsuit filed a day earlier in US district court by the Missouri death row inmate Michael Taylor. His attorneys allege that the department contracts with the Apothecary Shoppe to provide the drug set to be used in Taylor’s 26 February lethal injection.
The lawsuit argues that several recent executions involving the drug, compounded pentobarbital, indicate it will likely cause Taylor “severe, unnecessary, lingering and ultimately inhumane pain”.
In his order on Wednesday Judge Terence Kern wrote that Taylor’s attorneys submitted “facts demonstrating that immediate and irreparable injury, loss, or damage will result to plaintiff before defendant can be heard in opposition”.
Feb 03 2014
Jon Stewart: State of the Union
Adapted from Rant of the Week at The Stars Hollow Gazette
President Obama uses lessons learned from passive-aggressive Jewish mothers in his 2014 State of the Union address.
Joe Biden does his thing, and Republican politicians react to President Obama’s State of the Union talking points.
Republicans uninterested in bipartisanship decry President Obama’s lack of bipartisanship, and one Congressman gives a NY1 reporter the traditional Staten Island goodbye.
Jan 04 2014
Lewis Black – The Disappointing Future
Adapted from Rant of the Week at The Stars Hollow Gazette
Lewis Black feels let down by a future that several doctors told him he would not live to see.
Dec 29 2013
Farewell John Oliver
Adapted from Rant of the Week at The Stars Hollow Gazette
The Daily Show celebrates John Oliver’s final night as a correspondent
Dec 11 2013
Your Resident Expert
Deranged millionaire John Hodgman describes the dilapidated liberal wasteland New York City will become under Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Dec 07 2013
Bill Maher Interviews Dan Savage
Adapted from Rant of the Week at The Stars Hollow Gazette
November 22, 2013 – Dan Savage joined Bill Maher Friday night for a no-holds-barred talk about all the gay news happening in the world, and Savage was his usual unrestrained self, going off on the “dykes” in the Cheney family and saying he’s getting sick and tired of “kiddy-fucking Catholic priests” lecturing everyone else about morality and the welfare of young children.
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