Bill Maher tonight

[NEDem]

OK, I know I new here and all, but if you missed Bill Maher tonight because you thought Bob Barr would make you sick, check it out on the rebroadcast. Barr slams bush! At least twice!

Barr, agrees that the * administration is using fear to promote their political campaign.

[NMDemDist2]

1. Barr was an ass and the show was pretty weak altogether

but I still love Bill

[MirrorAshes]

3. Bad panel, but Bill was on fire.

Steve Harvey was pretty damn good too. The best part, imo, was the new rules where he talked about how fucked up our prisons are. This is something that NEEDS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.

[mountainvue]

8. Agreed.

The show wasn't as cohesive as last week's. Cokie and Barr made me want to:puke:. when Cokie made her little point about being in favor of gay marriage, she looked at the audience as if to say "Aren't you going to clap for me?"

[Nite Owl]

2. Bob wasn't bad.

Cokie was another story though defending her boy Bush*.

And welcome to DU!

[blueknight]

6. cokie is a whore

she LOVES shrub. i thought bill was great, as usual. bob barr is still as big a prick and racist as he ever was.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. Steve Harvey and Bill are GREAT!

Why was "Cocaine" Cokie there?

I liked last weeks show better.

[Momof1]

5. I have to agree it was weaker than usual. Maher got a few good

digs in, but with a line-up like that. It was disappointing.

When you start off the season with Moore, you know its hard to keep up the energy after that.

[mountainvue]

7. He also said Al Qaida

could hire the IRA to attack the United States.:eyes:

[Peachhead22]

9. Was Steve Harvey totally stoned or something?

Don't misunderstand me. Hey, if he was, whatever. But he was acting kinda strange. Quieter than I expected him to be (or than he has been in the past), etc.

Last week the panelists were talking over each other too much. This week they weren't talking nearly enough. And the rant about high-fructose corn-syrup? Huh? There aren't enough real issues lately that you could spend more time on, Bill?

[MirrorAshes]

10. Actually I thought that was a great point.

Sure, theres lots of stuff to talk about, but much like what he said about the prisons, there are some real problems we face that never get mentioned. The fact that we are poisoning ourselves with chemicals is something we all need to acknowledge.

edit:
And I almost forgot...as for Harvey, he probably was stoned, but I thought his timing was (mostly) good and he was funny :) Its always ncie to see people just LAUGH at republicans.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

11. It's not a new issue for him nt

[mountainvue]

15. Bill and Steve may have partaken

in a little before the show. He's right about the corn subsidies. it's one of his favorite rants.

[Strelnikov_]

18. Two Or Three Years Ago The High Fructose Corn Syrup Issue

was mentioned on NPR Talk Of The Nation. This was during a show discussing nutrition. The chemist that was on expressed some concern over high fructose corn syrup. His concern was that it is a man-made compound, it is everywhere in the food supply, and we really do not know how the human body will react to the chemistry of this compound.

For myself, I feel that there has been something introduced into the food supply over the last 20 years that is responsible for a large part of the diabetes epidemic today. It may be the chemistry of HF molecule, or it could simply be that we are being overdosed on the sweetener, and the body incorrectly resets to a higher blood glucose level.

Granted, we are a heavier, more sedentary nation. But have things changed that much over the last 30 years? Also, the heavier/sedentary argument does not explain the following:

1) The epidemic of adult-onset (insulin resistant) diabetes, which used to be primarily a disease of the elderly, in teens and young adults.

2) The epidemic of diabetes on Indian reservations. There was an article (in the MN Star Tribune) three or four years ago that noted 50 years ago diabetes in the Indian population was unknown, 20 years ago rare, and today (as of the time of the article) was running at 30% of the population. I just don't think the life styles of reservation Indians has changed proportional to the increase in diabetes over the last 50 yrs.

I think that this is a real issue in that some studies indicate that at the current rate 50% of the population could end up diabetic. This seems high to me, but do feel it is one more looming problem that is being piled on the big shit sandwich we are all going to have to take a bite out of over the next decade.

[Eric J in MN]

12. Who said that? nt

nt

[mountainvue]

14. Bob Barr. n/t

[Eric J in MN]

17. That scenario sounds very unlikely to me (nt)

nt

[mountainvue]

19. I know. I just wanted

to point out to those who though Boob wasn't "so bad" that he's acutally kind of freaking nuts.

[Eric J in MN]

13. Why is Cokie Roberts pro-Bush? Didn't she used to be a liberal? nt

nt

[mdmc]

16. Hill used to be a Goldwater conservative

Kookie musta changed

[mountainvue]

20. Don't know. She also thought the big story in Iowa

when Kerry and Bush was there was the bank robberies. She couldn't really elaborate as to why when asked though.