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Kurt Vonnegut on Bill Maher

It's a trajedy for me that he's president of my country. You know, my book is called A Man Without a Country,I still have a passport, but if I showed this now in Portugal or Spain or Italy or Germany of France or Denmark or Japan or even communist China, what it would say about me is that I'm not only from the richest country in the world but the dumbest country in the world. Is our President a tragic figure, perhaps, but he doesn't know diddley squat about economics or history or science even how to speak well.



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Norm,

You rock. It's getting to the point that when I watch Maher I'll turn to my wife and say, honey, this will be on OneGoodMove tomorrow. LOL. Hoping you'll also post the moment where Carlin explained that our government is fascist.

JesusBristow

Now that we're rid of 'Brownie', shouldn't we get rid of 'CloWnie'?

http://www.macliberals.com/wordpress/?p=286

Bill was at his most brilliant for New Rules last night. I've never heard anything quite like his final monologue which was addressed to the president.

Stay tuned.

Nate is staying tuned. Thanks!

God bless him. I hope he has a couple more books in him. he is a treasure.

I love Vonnegut, in limited doses, but you can certainly tell he is a sci-fi writer. It seems to be a requirement to write sci-fi that the uathor be a manic-depressive, 'humanity sucks, we're a virus' type of thinker. It just bothers me that these type of people allow us to become so self-hating. Saying things like 'America is the dumbest country in the world' is just pointless and counter-productive.

In any case I'll be interested to read his new book.

Memo to Chris Hitchens:

See what happens when you drink too much for too long?

PS--I still love Vonnegut; he's a national treasure and wise sage who has earned the right to say whatever he wants.

I'll never like you.

I must say that Mr. Vonnegut is one of the smartest people around. It's ironic that an 83 year old man would be better suited for the presidency that our current president. I look forward to his new book, and re-reading some of his older ones, for anyone who hasn't read it, I'd recommend "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater". Thanks for the clip.

The following is a quote of Vonnegut's testimony to a congressional hearing a while back. The man can do satire.

------------Begin quote------------------------- I have read much of the heart-rending testimony extracted from victims of sexual abuse at meetings of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography. It is clear to me that our Government must be given the power to suppress the words and images which are the causes of sexually motivated insanity and crimes. As the Bible says: "In the beginning was the word." I myself make my living with words, and I am now ashamed. In view of the terrible damage freely circulated ideas can do to a society, and particularly to innocent children, I beg my government to delete from my works all thoughts which might be dangerous. I want the help of our elected leaders in bringing my thoughts into harmony with their own and thus into harmony with the thoughts of those who elected them. That is democracy. Attempting to make amends at this late date, I call to the attention of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, and God bless the attorney general, the fundamental piece of obscenity from which all others spring, the taproot of the deadly poisonous tree. Kill the taproot and the tree dies, and with it its deadly fruits, which are rape, sodomy, wife-beating, child abuse, divorce, abortion, adultery, gonorrhea, herpes, and AIDS. I will read this most vile of all pieces of so-called literature aloud, so that those who dare can feel the full force of it. I recommend that all persons under 14, and all persons under 30 not accompanied by an adult, should leave the room. Those remaining who have heart trouble or respiratory difficulties, or who are prone to commit rape at the slightest provocation, may want to stick their fingers in their ears. And what I ask you to endure so briefly now is what the selfless members of the pornography commission do day after day for the good of our children. I am simply going to dip you in filth, and pull you out of it and wash you off immediately. At terrible risk of infection, they have to wallow in pornography. They are so fearless. We might think of them as sort of sewer astronauts. All right. Everybody ready? Tighten your G-strings. Here we go:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

That Godless loop of disgusting sexuality, friends and neighbors, happens to be a basic law of this country. How could this have happened? Some communistic, pederastic, wife-beating congressman, while we weren't watching, must have tacked it onto the Rivers and Harbors Bill. It should be expunged with all possible haste, in order that innocent children can be safe again.
Adolf Hitler blamed the Jews for inspiring every sort of sexual ugliness in Germany, so he tried to kill them all. Say what you like about him, incidentally, it can't be denied that he led an exceedingly clean life sexually. In the end, he made an honest woman of his only sexual partner, Eva Braun.
Oh dear - have I slipped into pornography yet again? It is so easy to do.
Hitler was wrong about the Jews. It is unclean images which are responsible for unclean sexuality.
In order to protect innocent German children, all he had to do was get rid of the First Amendment. In no way can this be interpreted as an anti-Semitic act. The authors of that amendment, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, were not Jews.
It is not enough that sex crimes of every sort are already against the law, and are punished with admirable severity. It is up to our leaders, and particularly to our attorney general, to persuade a large part of our citizenry that even the most awful sex crimes are perfectly legal, and even celebrated in some godless quarters, because of the permissiveness of our Constitution. Only then will an aroused and thoroughly misinformed citizenry rise up in righteous wrath to smash the First Amendment - and many other only slightly less offensive parts of the Bill of Rights.

Once the findings of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography are published for all to see, whether they can read or no, what sort of American would dare to defend liberty, whose cost is so horrible? I'll tell you what kind of an American, friends and neighbors: the sort of American who would rape a three-year-old girl, drench her in lighter fluid, set her ablaze, and throw her off a fire escape.
As we used to say in geometry class back in public school when I was a boy: "Q.E.D. - quod erat demonstrandum."
I thank you for your attention.

Dude, that guy was a befuddled old man. What's even scarier is that people were clapping for him.

"I am not only from the richest country in the world but from the dumbest country in the world" ::applause::

Well, if the audience clapped at that, then maybe his statements were correct...

"See what happens when you drink too much for too long?"

Unfortunately, this is how most people would respond to what Kurt said. Even more unfortunately, much of what he was saying was dead-on. His ravings aren't the product of years of boozing, but rather a lifetime of watching humankind repeat its mistakes and atrocities endlessly- never seeming to learn better...

it's about time we had another dose of Vonnegut! Where did the last 30 yrs go? I want more!

"America has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka "Christians..."        -- Kurt Vonnegut

Observing the America is widely considered "the dumbest country" isn't just useful, it's a necessary wake-up for all of us.

Everything that was once admirable about this nation has been lost. To the rest of the world, we're a punchline, not a nation. And, as always, we're the last ones to figure it out.

America is still "exceptional" -- but only in the most hideously ironic sense. Making that sort of irony manifest is one of Vonnegut's specialties.

During my controlled near-death experiences, I’ve met Sir Isaac Newton, who died back in 1727 as often as I’ve met Saint Peter. They both hang out at the Heaven end of the blue tunnel of the Afterlife. Saint Peter is there because it’s his job. Sir Isaac is there because of his insatiable curiosity about what the blue tunnel is, how the blue tunnel works. It isn’t enough for Newton that during his eighty-five years on Earth he invented calculus, codified and quantified the laws of gravity, motion and optics, and designed the first reflecting telescope. He can’t forgive himself for having left it to Darwin to come up with the theory of evolution, to Pasteur to come up with the germ theory, and to Albert Einstein to come up with relativity. “I must have been deaf, dumb, and blind not to have come up with those myself,” he said to me. “What could have been more obvious?”

—Kurt Vonnegut, "God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian"

hitler did not lead a sexually clean life. he contracted syphillis

video link is dead. damn you.

works for me.

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