Bill Maher Calls for People to 'Put Drugs in Halloween Candy'
For decades, parents have worried about dangerous substances being put into what their children receive while Trick or Treating.
On Friday evening, HBO's Bill Maher actually called for people to "put drugs in the Halloween candy" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL MAHER: New rule, this Halloween stop fretting that some stranger's going to put drugs in your kid's candy and put the drugs in there yourself. Come on, this is America. Acid will be the healthiest thing they eat all day. Do it, put drugs in the Halloween candy. Now I know what you're thinking: Bill Maher, what a thing to say. We all know that too much of any drug can cause permanent damage. Just look at Rush Limbaugh. You can't just decide to give a bunch of innocent, drug-free kids some sort of psychedelic. What if it interacts badly with their Wellbutrin, their Abilify, their Adderall, their Ritalin, and their monster energy drink?
The kids are on drugs, all right. The problem is they're on the wrong drugs. They're on a combination of processed sugar so they can be mini coke fiends and mind narrowing pharmaceutical crap like Ritalin that doesn't open up their minds. It levels and controls them. These drugs are all about keeping bratty children in check, or as we used to call it. parenting. Oh, see now you have to think about it.
Adderall is the drug of choice these days on campus. Oh, what fun. I don't know what I would enjoy more, the extremely focused parties or the highly detail oriented sex. But here's the thing, when Steve Jobs was young, the drug of choice was acid and Jobs told his biographer that dropping acid as a young man was one of the best things he ever did because when he took it with his girlfriend, the wheat field started playing Bach. Which is pretty unbelievable – a computer nerd had a girlfriend?
Now, maybe there's not a connection between LSD and genius, but it's something no great American ever said about a Kit-Kat bar. If it weren't for acid, you might not have an iPod and you definitely wouldn't have some of the best music in your iPod. Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA while on acid. The Beatles made “Sergeant Pepper” while on acid. I made “D.C. Cab” while on acid, and the list goes on and on.
And it's not just anecdotal. In a study from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine last month, scientists found that a single dose of psilocybin, which is the drug in mushrooms, created a quote “long-term positive personality change in most patients.” People improved in the areas of sensitivity, imagination, and broad-minded tolerance of others. In pharmaceutical speak, psilocybin is known as an asshole inhibitor. And couldn’t we use a little more of that? Have you seen a Republican debate lately? If ever there was a group who could stand to take a sensitivity pill and employ broad-minded tolerance of others, it's these people. This nation faces enormous challenges and the biggest idea we've heard from them so far is let's build a fence that electrocutes Mexicans.
Steve Jobs literally learned to think different. And if he can get that, that insight from LSD or mushrooms or for that matter from licking a toad, then bring me Kermit the Frog and I'll stick my tongue right down his throat.
To begin with, Crick admitted to taking a variety of drugs, but it's at this point an urban myth that he was actually on LSD when he discovered the structure of DNA.
As for this Johns Hopkins study, it found the "psychedelic drug in magic mushrooms may have lasting medical and spiritual benefits." Since this is a new study, it's way too soon to conclude this is long-term.
But most importantly, it is preposterous for a man to be advocating on national television people put drugs into Halloween candy three days before October 31.
Regardless of the comedic intent or the point Maher was trying to make about the supposed benefits of hallucinogens, it is totally irresponsible to do so days before millions of America's children will be knocking on doors taking candy from relative strangers.
If one child anywhere in this nation falls prey to this Monday, I sincerely hope Maher and HBO are held responsible.
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Comments
For a guy who so adamantly
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 3:18pm.
For a guy who so adamantly endorses drug use and it's benefits..........he sure is a piss-poor example of the results.
ROLF......to true Killa...to
Submitted by ThePickle on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 3:23pm.
ROLF......to true Killa...to true. :)
WRITE HBO
Submitted by randydutton on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:31pm.
Don't like Maher's advocacy of illegal drugs put into Halloween candy? Contact HBO at http://www.hbo.com/#/about/contact-us.html and tell them!!! Don't just complain on a blog, make HBO understand that Maher's advocacy of poisoning innocent children becomes HBO's advocacy and future liability.
Then instruct your cable company to cancel HBO.
Responsible parents don't take their kids house to house anymore
Submitted by kata on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 3:25pm.
You go "Mall Haunting" or Church/Community "Trunk or Treating".
Maher is an idiot. A self-serving egomaniacal sociopathic idiot. HBO deserves him and any lawsuits that result from his actions.
Huh?
Submitted by Chupacabra on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 3:29pm.
I don't know enough about LSD or other psychadelics to discuss the pros or cons, but every time I hear Bill Mahr or any of the other liberal supestars deride Conservatives for not being "sensitive" I almost fall out of my chair.
Do these guys honestly believe they are sensitive and respectful to those of us who do not share their views?
Really?
That Has Got To Be Over The Edge
Submitted by Avitar on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 3:56pm.
The FCC has some wire fraud regulations but does Cable fall under them?
A cable company like Time Warner that owns HBO must have some Liability for one of their paid performers recommending criminal acts over their sponsored shows. If any kids are drugged this Halloween maybe there is a nice class action suit against Time Warner for a lawyer with initiative.
DNA was before LSD and nearly everything he said that I have checked is equally ungrounded in history.
dates
Submitted by Ciampino on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 8:08pm.
LSD was synthesized in the 1930s and Crick came up with the structure of DNA in the 1950s.
Bill Maher is just depolorable.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 3:59pm.
And liberal hypocrisy is just staggering.
Just don't joke about giving them cigarettes instead of candy.
Because THAT's not funny.
This man has no idea
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 3:54pm.
the damage that drug use can do to the individual and the family. The fact is that without the controlled environment he surrounds himself with, he'd no more have survived his own drug use than any number of dead junkies.
A great reason to cancel HBO...
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 3:56pm.
When sickos such as Bill Maher make outrageous statements such as this, it's time for conservatives to remove HBO from their cable or satellite programming.
MLT, we were given HBO and
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 4:01pm.
MLT, we were given HBO and Cinemax free for 3 months, and in 3 weeks I haven't found a single thing I want to watch.
I simply can't imagine why people pay for these "premium" channels.
They are still showing the movie "Big" for crying out loud!
Same here, MB.
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 4:13pm.
DirecTV gave it to us free. After 5 days, I called them and told them to turn it off, I didn't want it on my list of channels. The "service person" couldn't understand why I didn't want it. As she didn't even know who Maher was, I just told her, again, to turn it off and hung up. You can't explain inane and stupid to the inane and stupid.
Same Thing Here
Submitted by ScottyKUtah on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 7:20am.
I ran into the same thing with my cable company. They called out of the blue to offer three free months of the premium movie channels, and I said no. The drone was surprised that somebody actually turned this down, and kept pestering me. Finally I told him that I'd been meaning to scale down my internet speed to save some money each month, and thanks for reminding me. Got on their website and did just that, saving myself $20 a month.
Trick or Treat!
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 4:00pm.
"If one child anywhere in this nation falls prey to this Monday, I sincerely hope Maher and HBO are held responsible."
Here, here. But you know what they'll do, right? They'll Alinsky the person who handed it out as a Tea Partier who voted for Sarah Palin in the last election.
Or some such evil inanity.
They'll Alinsky the person
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 4:08pm.
They'll Alinsky the person who handed it out as a Tea Partier who voted for Sarah Palin in the last election
And claim that the person must be a conservative redneck too stupid to understand the sophistication of liberal "humor."
"Broad minded tolerance of others"?
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 4:03pm.
Again, liberal speak for sit down and shut up. After all, it's not something they believe in for themselves.
Even as trashy as HBO is
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 4:11pm.
Even as trashy as HBO is seems they would find this hard to swallow. Maybe they are farther gone than I realize.
I will take the scorn but
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 4:28pm.
I really wish someone would put large amounts of LSD in his (Maher) own personal candy. He would be so far off the charts he would have to be institutionalized for good
I can't resist
Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 11:30pm.
"This young man never had a bummer in some 33 LSD trips. Every one of them was a delight. Everything under control. He only needed to snap his fingers, and down he came, anytime. But on Voyage 34 he finally met himself, coming down an upstair case, and the encounter was crushing." - Porcupine Tree, "Voyage 34" (Phase 1)
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Notice how leftwingers want to force their preferred pastimes...
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 7:07pm.
...(e.g. drugs, casual sex, telling 'jokes' about Republicans and conservatives while stroking their own egos and worshiping liberalism/government) on everyone while acting like there's something wrong with people who aren't into those things and treating things like eating candy and fast food as the worst thing anyone can do. Apparently, elitist lefty wingnuts think the world would be a better place if only everyone were more like them (and only people who are like them are worthy of consideration and respect). Yeah, because that's not arrogant and condescending at all.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Any reason why this video was
Submitted by Immortal Fish on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 4:46pm.
Any reason why this video was clipped to a 4:20 length?
Bill Maher probably views
Submitted by redfish on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 5:07pm.
Bill Maher probably views himself as speaking out of experience, and seeing himself as having broad-minded tolerance, and not in any way an asshole.
A lot of people who take drugs think the drugs are making them better people, but it doesn't always look the same way to people looking in from the outside.
Steve Jobs, who Maher cites, was also an asshole, just like Maher. And its not that he was more creative than others -- he took a lot of ideas from everyone else (he didn't invent most of what he's credited with) --- he was just an arrogant control freak and perfectionist. He had a lot of personality defects.
While we're at it though, we can list some men who were celibate most or all of their lives, and far from molesting little boys, accomplished a lot: Isaac Newton, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig von Beethoven, Francesc Fontanella, Baruch Spinoza, Simone Weil
Some of these people also had serious personality defects. Which just shows you that your lifestyle alone doesn't make you perfect.
Good point
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 6:42pm.
Did drugs "improve" or debilitate Jobs?
If Maher is a model for drug-induced personality, I'd say he's a poor advertisement. His smug pseudo-intellectualism may appeal to adolescents, but it's divorced from reality.
Equating hard drugs with the sugar in candy might sound hip to Maher and his narrow audience, but mainstream Americans won't buy that.
I think taking drugs over a
Submitted by redfish on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 8:01pm.
I think taking drugs over a long term can damage someone, but if done in short term one time instances they won't probably unless the person takes it to their head, and makes something more out of the experience than is there.
There are a lot of people who go into drugs thinking "I'm an open-minded person for taking drugs", and come out of it talking about how much it opened their mind, and that all closed-minded people should take it; it sounds like confirmation bias to me. Besides that, most people who talk as if their mind was opened by drugs end up saying really shallow things that they think are profound, yet a lot of people thought up without the use of drugs. They tend to have very limited imaginations to begin with and say things like "Dali must have taken drugs!" just because they can't grasp how someone could have been imaginative without drugs.
And I think the biggest damage over the long term is the fact that drugs are used as a vice, as a type of escape from reality, where people avoid dealing with their issues or their emotions. (Its just as bad when people use sugar to do that, that's whats referred to as "gluttony")
That doesn't mean good, smart people don't take drugs, but personally I think they'd be happier if they could learn to appreciate and cope with their life without them.
Some drugs can be used therapeutically, but then the goal should be to cope without them, eventually.
Wow....................yeah..
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 8:38pm.
Wow....................yeah...............I mean...............uhhhhhhhhh...............trippy...........bro........................stoney.................groovy....
.........ya know............drugs.............yeah.................they're ummmmmmmmm.............yeah..........far out...................
ok.
Submitted by redfish on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 8:51pm.
ok.
I'd say
Submitted by panzerakc on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:03am.
that Bill is a poster child for NOT taking drugs, if he's the end result.
As for Jobs, what might he have done without the drugs?
Somebody remind Mahrer that
Submitted by ant on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 6:11pm.
Somebody remind Mahrer that the trend of public educators recommending pharmacueticals to control childrens' behavior is of the liberal persuasion.
Totally untrue
Submitted by vaboxrboy on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 6:49pm.
People who are into organic foods and natural healing are not advocating drugs to change behavior. Those two ideals totally clash. Now make up some more facts.
Not all liberals are into the organic/natural healing thing.
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 7:04pm.
And that makes your rebuttal a failure. Not to mention. but it means YOU'RE the one making up facts.
Nice try though, and thanks for playing.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Go to any psychiatry
Submitted by redfish on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 9:28pm.
Go to any psychiatry department at a university, you'll find they tend to be very liberal, argue that conservative values about sex are emotionally repressive, that children should sexually experiment, and so on. Some of them even argue that recreational drugs are good.
These are what you might call post-modern liberals, who talk about how they believe in science and empiricism and hate religion .. they treat homeopaths as being on the fringe of the left, almost as bad as religious people for their new ageism.
Conservatives were some of the biggest opponents to psychiatry in the 60s through the 90s. Psychiatrists would often mock them as thinking that when a person had a mental illness, it was a sign of a moral failure. Its one of the reasons Arianna Huffington once identified as a conservative, because of her opposition to psychiatry.
Years ago, my niece went to
Submitted by ant on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 9:22pm.
Years ago, my niece went to the typical Dem-donating union public school, filled with the kind of teachers that think they're oppressed because they have to pay into their health-care. My niece's KINDERGARTEN teacher was a large (as in well-fed) minority woman of the type that you definitely would not describe as 'Republican'. It was she that recommended to my niece's mother that she be 'medicated' because she "sings too much". Kindergarten, mind you! My sister removed her from that school, and probably at great expense to herself. So don't tell me. I guarantee that, if I felt the need to bother, I could find articles supporting the medicating of children that were written almost exclusively by those of an elitist, liberal bent.
BTW, vaboxrboy
Submitted by ant on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:13am.
Be sure to ask far-leftists O and Michelle how cocaine, cigarettes, hot wings, burgers, deep-fried Snickers, fries, lobster and $200 dollar bottles of wine fit into their organic food and healing regimen for me. I can tell just by looking at people like Hillary, Teddy-boy, Bawney Fwank, Rangel, Jackson-Lee, Botox Nancy, Napolitano, Kagan,et al that natural healing, exercise and all that must play an important role in their lives.
Maybe he should teach.
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 6:57pm.
He can teach the "Attention Whoring 101" class at college.
Attention criminal defense counsel:
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 7:03pm.
I don't think the "Maher told me to" defense will fly.
Attention plaintiff attorneys: Neither will the "it's all Maher's fault" theory.
Jer
I don't know, Jer...
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 7:13pm.
If you did something and claim that you were a fan of Bill Maher's show, can you legally use the plea of insanity?
Maybe not
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 7:14pm.
I wonder though, how incensed would the general public be if Maher had transposed the word "cigarettes" for "drugs" ?
Roughly the same.
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 7:50pm.
Maher would have modified the joke/parody accordingly and it would have been just as unfunny and unclever and provoked a similar reaction ranging from outrage to boredom to bemusement.
Jer
What if his name was
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 8:45pm.
Rush or Coulter?
Uproarious laughter
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 9:05pm.
and thunderous ovations from the dittoheads.
;-)
Jer
Neither will the "it's all
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 9:01pm.
Neither will the "it's all Maher's fault" theory.
Worked for President Downgrade.
Obama's blaming Maher
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 11:00pm.
is the reason 51% of the public disapprove of his job performance?
How odd.
Jer
If Maher
Submitted by bobbys on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 7:05pm.
If Maher came to my door i would slip a bit of penicillin in the snicker bar. One can see im a humanitarian or at least i fear for the girls at the grotto catching anything.
Constant insults and hate hurled at people he disagrees with,...
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 7:12pm.
...is that what Maher considers 'broad-minded tolerance of others'?
If Bill Maher took, as he called it, an "asshole inhibitor", he'd completely disappear.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
I see that Barry and
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 9:53pm.
I see that Barry and Moooooooooooooooochelle are passing out 'healthy' Halloween treats, such as M&M's, home baked cookies, and fruit. I guess Mooooooooooooooochelle saved the deep-fried Snicker Bars for herself.
Good evening killa
Submitted by cocodrie on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 9:57pm.
Michelle Mahbutt is peeved at Paula Dean because Paula ratted her out about pigging out on fher show.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Well, I wouldn't want her mad
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 10:25pm.
Well, I wouldn't want her mad at me, and I'm pretty adept at taking care of myself...............I might have to call in my SEAL son!!! She might try and throw me in a vat of boiling lard that is filled with Snicker Bars!!!
wow
Submitted by michiganruth on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 10:54pm.
ok first, I have to give him credit for one funny joke (the "that's unbelievable. a computer nerd had a girlfriend..." one).
and second, I see he is trying to make a point about our over-medicated society, and that's a great conversation to have--sometime.
but seriously...BILL ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? who would actually go on TV and say "yes, please put drugs in your kids' candy" right before Halloween?
Maher can say whatever vile things he wants about the people he hates (almost everyone), but this sort of thing should be out of bounds. is there *anything* he can do that will get him fired?
Ignoring Maher's obligatory
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 2:44am.
Ignoring Maher's obligatory conservative jabs in his rant I believe this is quite possibly the most intelligent thing the male Behar has ever been quoted as saying on this forum.
If you ignore his wildly hypocritical comments about conservatives in his comments (if Maher's description of a conservative is correct then Maher must be to the right of Ronald Reagan) I believe they make a lot of sense. We do over-medicate kids and often it's because people don't want to parent. I will never accept the widespread cases of ADD and ADHD as being legitimate when we live in a world with the lousy parents I see on a daily basis. For example, it's the norm anymore to see a kid being a whiny, obnoxious, pain-in-the-a**** in public with the parents doing absolutely nothing about it. SHUT YOUR KID UP FOR CYING OUT LOUD. In that regard Maher is actually right. He's also right when he rants about the widespread consumption of nutritionally-devoid foods and energy drinks by today's youth.
I really don't think Maher was literally asking people to give drugs to kids. I think he was just using extreme means to express the point in how dangerous the things are that we gladly put into kids' mouths on a daily basis. I think that stuff made a lot of sense, however when he went off on how hardcore drugs are beneficial I'm extremely skeptical considering that the source of this revelation isn't exactly known for having the sharpest mind of the block. I can't believe people are thinking people will actually give kids drugs because Maher suggested it. A person would have to be a complete idiot for doing that... of wait... that would describe his audience wouldn't it? Maybe we should worry.
That said, this didn't stop Behar...er... Maher from bending over backwards to find a way to blame conservatives. The last time I checked it wasn't conservatives that wanted to drug up boys so that they will act more like little girls in class. It's not conservatives that worry they won't being their kids' friend if they say "NO" to a junk food diet. It isn't conservatives that fight for drugging kids so that teachers have an easier time doing their job. The problems he cites, when they overlap into the political sphere, overlap largely on Leftist areas. Maher's rant almost seems rather CONSERVATIVE if you ask me.
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Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
If any child dies, their
Submitted by jessieH on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 11:49am.
If any child dies, their blood will be on his hands.
Contact HBO RE their advocating of illegal drugs to children
Submitted by randydutton on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:29pm.
Don't like Maher's advocacy of illegal drugs put into Halloween candy? Contact HBO at http://www.hbo.com/#/about/contact-us.html and tell them!!! Don't just complain on a blog, make HBO understand that Maher's advocacy of poisoning innocent children becomes HBO's advocacy and future liability.
Then instruct your cable company to cancel HBO.
Thanks Randy
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 1:43pm.
I left a comment, even though I canceled my subscription years ago
Maher
Submitted by alvin on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 1:06pm.
Maher getting under your skin, is he? I'll bet of the 60 commenters here only a few actually subscribe to HBO. Just another example of right wingers wanting to feel victimized.
Aw heck alvin ya got me. I don't even have cable
Submitted by kata on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 1:15pm.
Have a pleasant day!
Actually alvin
Submitted by sentry_99 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 1:24pm.
This is just another example of you trying do defend the indefensible.
So sarcasm is now indefensible.?
Submitted by buttercup815 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 1:38pm.
I read sarcasm against liberals here every single day. No wait, now I get it. Sarcasm against converatives is not permited. So simple.
Maher was being sarcastic already!
Sure he was
Submitted by sentry_99 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 1:43pm.
That is always the fallback of him and his ilk. That you can't see that is your problem.
Youre right!
Submitted by buttercup815 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 1:51pm.
I'm going to see Dr. House first thing tomorrow and tell him I have a sarcasm deficiency.
You're deficient in a helluva
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 2:46pm.
You're deficient in a helluva lot more areas than that, butterball..............
Good evening Bittercup
Submitted by cocodrie on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 1:45pm.
Our sarcasm does not include acvocating murder nor poisoning children like y'all do.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Yea sure he was.
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 1:46pm.
Bill is so funny,,,,,, good freakin grief
sarcasm?
Submitted by kata on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 2:10pm.
And it's not just anecdotal. In a study from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine last month, scientists found that a single dose of psilocybin, which is the drug in mushrooms, created a quote “long-term positive personality change in most patients.” People improved in the areas of sensitivity, imagination, and broad-minded tolerance of others.
You can call it a lot of things, but sarcasm wouldn't be among them. I'd start with irresponsible.
This is exactly what I talk about all the time
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 1:30pm.
See how the lib's idolize folks who are divisive and are actually doing, and saying what they accuse the Right of? I am eagerly awaiting the usual suspects, to argue, name call, and give secondhand accounts, of how I am wrong/lying.
Wrong again buttercup*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 1:54pm.
Conservatives are quite capable of recognizing sarcasm, its liberals who have difficulty recognizing hypocrisy.
Sarah Palin was demonized for putting a target on states of upcoming elections to "unelect" liberals and seen as inciting violence. Maher calls for poisoning our children and he is being sarcastic.
Agenda has a way of undermining intellect. Give that one some thought
You don't have to wait any longer, Boudin....
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 2:16pm.
You were wrong and you lied, stalker.
There..are you happy now?
Jer
Here ya go Jer*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 2:36pm.
Please read the entire thread.
Cajun will now start stalking Grumpy
As Lenin said
Submitted by Chicagoray40 on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 6:41am.
"Accuse Your Victim Of What You’re Doing".... they do it all day and night long.
In the Soviet Union, they used to have ‘show trials’. The victim was already doomed to death or gulag. The purpose was propaganda. In virtually all cases there was no truth whatsoever to the allegations, but Marxism is never about truth, it is about power. What was truly ironic about all this was that the secret state, the Comintern and the KGB actually did all the crimes of which the victims were accused and yet were innocent! The Soviets were the ones conspiring behind the scenes, intimidating, etc.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. –Albert Einstein My Twitter
As the great patriot, Hillary
Submitted by ant on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 2:37pm.
As the great patriot, Hillary Clinton, once shrieked, "It's not about the evidence, it's the seriousness of the charges!"
Maher isn't a comedian. He can't be.
Submitted by Unsane on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 2:07pm.
Actually, I think Noel is getting under your skin by coming up with this article.
Besides, Maher has a more fundamental problem. He is victimizing EVERYBODY, Left or Right. For a very simple reason.
He isn't funny. He never has been, and never will be.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
It's drive-by chipmunk!
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 2:41pm.
Can you back up your assertion that 'right-wingers want to feel victimized', or is it just a condescending way to dismiss criticism of liberal media bias because you can't actually refute it?
Now hide in your tree like the cowardly little rodent you are.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Pharmacotherapy (medications) are just one treatment option.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 7:07pm.
For some psychiatric conditions, namely the mood disorders, adjunct psychotherapy can be of real benefit. The psychotherapy alone is usually not effective to the point because it addresses the conscious part of the patient's emotion, but medications are required to address the physical symptoms. Cognitive behavior therapy, for example, helps patients deal with the physical symptoms that are managed by medications until we see clinical improvement. Psychotherapy will definitely not control bipolar disorders, hence the need for the careful combination of medications we use in management. As for dissociative disorders, drugs are a mainstay of therapy but so is psychosocial therapy, particularly aimed at family to provide a supportive network for the patient.
For ADHD (adult and pediatric onset), I do frequently prescribe stimulants (Ritalin, etc.), but only when psychotherapy and behavioral modification and management are part of the plan. In true ADHD cases (not the kinds that are diagnosed largely for the "parents" who think Ritalin will somehow make their "C" student an "A" student!), the behavioral management is critical to helping the patient. Development of patterns, particularly behaviors like keeping a schedule and maintaining homework, chores, etc., are extremely helpful in combination with medication therapy.
Like any other medical diagnosis, mental illnesses that are treatable with medications require adjunct lifestyle or other therapy that will involve the patient in their own care. Just throwing a prescription at something never works.
As Dr Savage Says...
Submitted by Chicagoray40 on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 6:38am.
liberalism is indeed a mental disorder and when mixed with unmitigated alcohol and drug abuse as three quarters of that tribe suffer from, this is the end result. And throw in millions to waste and the problem becomes an epidemic.
As for this idiot's monologue humorous intended or not..... what an ahole
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. –Albert Einstein My Twitter
bill the moron
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 9:53am.
need to be fired for that. There is NO excuse for making such a remark that could lead to some idiots doing as he suggested. If that happens, HE and the network that pays him should be held 100% responsible and at fault.