Bill Maher, as part of his “New Rules” for his HBO show, recently suggested that New Orleans should be moved to Kansas in an effort to loosen our state up.
He said, “You can’t tell me that the giant swath of red America that Kansas sits in the middle of wouldn’t benefit from thousands of insane Creoles who understand that hangovers only happen to people foolish enough to stop drinking. . . . It could use some jazz, some blues . . . some blacks.
“Yes, I see a shining city on a plain. New Orleans, Kansas. Where people are learning. They’re learning that a gay pride parade isn’t something to fear; it’s something to laugh at. So what do you say, Kansas?”
What do you readers say to that?
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58 Comments
I think I’m going to be Swiss too!
Bill Maher should be moved to Israel. They like his crap.
I actually watched that episode of Real Time. His rant was awesome. I laughed! Bill Maher is a pretty good comedian.
He’s got a point. Kansas needs to lighten up.
The Bill Maher bunch is tearing-down this country. That’s their mission. Don’t buy into it.
Kansas is just fine. Bill Maher isn’t.
First the Communists, then the Neoconseratives/Zionists. What next? { each planned that there wouldn’t be a next }
Ed! Tell me how you really feel about Maher. Do you think he is jew or something?
I am surprised he was so nice to Kansas…after all, he left out the way churches run this state (ignoring Constitutional separation of church and state). He left out the ‘Moral” groups trying to ban pornography; he didn’t go afterConnie Morris and Board of Education for creating a state mandated religion along with new levels of wasteful spending to attend “conferences”.
Yep, he was actually pretty mild, considering the idiocy that we bring on ourselves…
It’s comedy Ed.As in: not to be taken seriously.
“is becoming”,how about has been and will be?: but at least we are getting national exposure.
There are much better comedians than Bill Maher, but they can’t get air-time because they’re not Jewish. The zionists only allow pro-Israeli comedians on their controlled air-time.
Count them.
Hey Ed…your anti-Semitism is getting boring. Can’t you come up with anything new? Your one track mind of anti-Semitism is nauseating–like you.
Obviously Bill has never stepped foot in Kansas.
Ed,
As Maher has pointed out himself on innumerable occasions he was raised Catholic.So now you’ll have to resort to “the media and banks are controlled by international jewry”. If that is true..if 14 million Jews can control the other 7 billion of us, then more power to them. You’re such a pathetic example of a Jew. Must be all that christian blood that somehow got into the family somewhere long ago. Don’t deny it..Friedemann is a German Jewish surname and we all know that even one drop of Jewish blood means all kyke. Accept who you are and emigrate to Israel.
Anyone want to take the bet that Ian Santiago and Ed are one in the same?
That’s all we need, is some inbred, toothless, illiterate, crime-loving people to move to our fine state.
Kansas needs to lighten up? Nah!! That’s what makes us different!
Bohica, we’re talking about New Orleans not Garden City.
I think having Mardi Gras in old town would certainly bring revenue to the state, plus having street performers year round would be cool. I’m all for it! Good idea, Bill!
When the Mardi Gras beads were given out during the River Festivel the police freaked out and arrested dozens of people. Unfortanly as long and conservatives and moralists control the local and state govermnent. Kansas will contunie to be the land that fun forgot.
Wasn’t Kansas the last state to repeal prohibition?
We say we want tourism, but anything that might be fun gets banned. Why would anyone want to vacation in a place that hates fun?
I like his crap too! He couldn’t be more dead on with his comments.
Pancho–
Really? How can you get arrested for “bead possession?”
Were people fighting over them?
OH yeah….Kansas wants tourism, and figures that the adult book stores are hurting tourism. So that is another ‘reason’ to ban them.
Interesting…I have lived close to a couple of towns that have lots and lots of adult book stores and seem to do ok with the tourists. San Diego and Orlando don’t seem to have a problem attracting tourists and they both have hundreds of adult businesses.
Oh well….no surprise that Bill Maher and others make fun of this state…
So let me get this straight
Maher says: The red states need more liberals….applause errupts
Any christian says the blue states need more conservative values…..boo and hiss, and people get angry about somebody elses values being jammed down thier throat
Yeah,I think it’s pretty clear who the closed minded ones are
XXX,I don’t know if Kansas was the last, but we had prohibition until 1948. I remember my parents pulling into a driveway in Riverside, passing money through a window and getting a bottle from the bootlegger.Oh, also, condoms were also illegal here until then.
There are 50 states in the union….There are plenty of places for you to go and live the carefree lifestyle YOU want….Go have fun Bill Maher……The remaining people who want a place that reflects OUR values will live in red state USA where we actually dont decend into panic if there is a mention of God.
dr,I would, but all the other people got there first. This is what’s left!
Would seem you are overstating just a tad there, ‘dr’. The problem is not the mention of the word God, the problem is a Board of Education (and others) that wants to make the Christian version of history the “official” one. Regardless of the fact that there are many religions in the world that do not follow the Christian teachings. Regardless of the laws mandating separation of church and state. Regardless of the scientific evidence.
Nope..it is not paranoia about one word. It is deep and true concern about violation of laws and common sense.
Maher was spot on.
dr? If folks want to party or view entertainment that you personally don’t approve, just how “conservative” is it of you to tell everyone else how to live?
Its not just mere possesion of Mardi Gras beads that get you arrested, it is the manor in one gets them that gets the one in trouble.(Show us your tits) If the planners of the River festival weren’t so naive they would have forseen this.
dr has an excellent point. Moral values were here first. Now the secular amoralists are forcing their values and non-values down the throats of others, not the other way around.
Arguments that morality wasn’t as good or as moral as you would hope are a red herring. It’s the striving and expectations that count. Society is chaos without them.
And I have to wonder how an “anything goes” society is supposed to be manageable without a police state. If morals are passe, and the only controls over human behavior are the laws, then the police state has arrived.
Morality (i.e., self control)is freedom.
Period.
JR, perhaps you didn’t understand, you obviously missed the point and blatent contridiction. MAHER was the one telling everyone else how to live!
See it ought to be the conservatives here whining that you are trying to ram YOUR lifestyle down our throats.
It works both ways!
$3-dollar Jew-Gas has caught the Zionist-Pigs with their pants down. Listen to them squeal.
Filled-up lately? Hurts doesn’t it. Squeal baby squeal.
Go take your meds, Ed.
I’m getting a litle sick and tired of hearing about how Kansas is a “laughing stock” simply because we don’t expound the “Hollywood values”, If people here want to see more sex shops, “adult” entertainment, and all the crap that goes along with it, move to California or Nevada. That’s what I love about this country, if you don’t like the culture in Kansas, then you can easily find a state where the culture is more “progressive” and to your liking. No one’s being forced to stay here.I like Kansas just the way it is.
Here is Bill Maher’s morality and the “baggage he brings to Kansas.
http://www.davidduke.com/index.php?p=400
Texas Pick-up Truck owner: “It cost me $74 to fill-up my Truck, so the Israelis are costing us too much money and I don’t want to pay for their deal anymore.”
See, I’m being nice cuz he didn’t use the word “Israelis”
dr,Nobody’s trying to ram their lifestyle down your throat. You are entitled to be just as prim and priggish and boring as you wish.That does not, however, mean that you have the right justify your feeble existence by forcing everyone else to be just as prim and priggish and boring as you are. You lead your life as you see fit, and we’ll do the same. That’s the American way. MYOB
Ed, I am NOT going to visit a David Duke website.If you think he has the truth, then you ARE deluded.
Maher is the son of a jew mother, thus he IS a jew himself! I am not ED!
Ian–
Einstein was Jewish.
Why don’t you win the Nobel Prize for Physics and transform the way all educated people see the universe, and then maybe you’ll have some authority for your views.
“God does not play dice with the universe.” I just wonder when He was creating you, why He couldn’t have rested on that day too.
Oh “god” it’s Ian again.
Ya know dr and damoon? you’re right. I want folks stopped from banging down church doors and demanding to talk about evoltion. And enough already with us being forced to go into busisiness that sell or exibit things we don’t like! And I am sick to DEATH of being made to tolerate those who don’t think like me. There oughtta be a law! Lastly, this buisiness of grabbing pregnant women on the street and forcing them to have abortions just has got to stop!
dr? I defend your right to be stodgy, boring and even self righteous. Please CONSERVE your perception of “morality” to yourself and let the rest of us do the same. Oh I forgot, YOU are God’s messenger.
Ian,Your rock is calling! Better crawl back under it!
Hey, the mods are pulling the really vile posts. Ian’s anti-semitic slam at Einstein got pulled.
Cool . . .
While I certainly don’t agree with any of the vile crap Ian & Ed come up with, I wish they wouldn’t pull it. We need to know what the lunatic fringe is saying before we can effectively fight it. Let ‘em rant!
I would hope that Ian is a fake and that he only writes the hatred for fun and games.
The mods are censoring the truth, how very jewish of them.
janabanana
You mean you’d rather look at the porn than those who brought it to you?
Shut up, Ed. JR, please move to California, oh wait, never mind, the rent out there is too expensive and the landlords are the WORST.
Sorry, NoJo–
He’s for real. And he’s conservative.
Get used to the company you keep.
Actually, Ed is pretty anti-semitic too, and he’s sort of left of center.
So, in all fairness, I guess I have to share Ed’s company.
(Shudder)
Actually, they’re both in their own world, but yes, Ed does belong to you and you’re responsible for him.
I aint sure what Ed is. I aint sure Ed knows what he is.He posts fairly intelligently if more than a little vehemently. He does not seem to belong to anyone.
My guess? He is a Libertarian ……..something
The fever swamp checks its own putrid aroma and finds it to be satisfactory.
“That’s all we need, is some inbred, toothless, illiterate, crime-loving people to move to our fine state.”
Hey!!! they are all ready here stupid! Its called Wichita