Some would turn his water off

Wheels are turning to go after Time-Warner, who ran the Bill Maher rant vs. the pope cited below:

E-mail Time-Warner And Demand An Apology For
Bill Maher Anti-Catholic, Anti-Faith Tirade!
HBO’s Bill Maher went too far with his recent diatribe against Pope Benedict, calling the Pope a “Nazi”,” calling the Catholic church a “cult.

MRC’s Culture and Media Institute is calling on every MRC Action team member to email HBO’s parent company, Time-Warner, and demand an immediate apology and retraction of Maher’s hateful, anti-faith comments.

Lest there be worry about impeding Maher’s freedom to rant, we can classify such a protest as consumer rebellion.  I do anyhow.

Bill foams @ mouth

Someone out there supports Bill Maher in his abusive habits, paying good money for stuff like this:

“I’d like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult,” Maher told his audience. “Its leader also has a compound, and this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats. That’s right, the Pope is coming to America this week and, ladies, he’s single.”

He’s one mad guy in his own mad, mad world.  It’s enough to get a reasonable fellow somewhat irritated.

Levels of thievery

Big O. has his targets:

When I think about Obama, I am reminded of Richard Epstein’s observation that in order to remain politically viable modern socialists no longer advocate direct government ownership of production. Instead, modern socialism operates on two different levels:

“At a personal level, it speaks to the alienation of the individual, stressing the need for caring and sharing and the politics of meaning.

“At a regulatory level, it seeks to identify specific sectors in which there is a market failure and then to subject them to various forms of government regulation.” Sounds a lot like Obama’s stump speech to me.

That’s Stephen Bainbridge on the Clever Socialist and how he intends to steal private property.  Look.  O. is too clever by more than half.  He gets really serious about some specifics.  It’s the market failures, stupid.  And why not, if you mean to cripple the market?