Brilliant George Carlin

[katty]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0yhHHPc7IU&feature=related

-3:00 of super refreshing NO bullshit from George

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Yup. The real explanation of what Bush meant by "Ownership Society"

WE get owned.

[katty]

2. yeah, and we should be 'grateful' to be 'owned' by them

the merry band of torturers.

[Faux pas]

3. Aw George, I miss you.

[lob1]

4. I have a semi-interesting story about George Carlin.

Back in the 70's, my girlfriend and I went to see him perform at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. We sat in the last row of the balcony, near the artists dressing rooms. It turns out my girlfriend accidentally left her purse there. We called the club and asked about the purse, and they said that someone found it. We could pick it up the next day. We went to the club the next day, and it turns out George Carlin is the one who found her purse, and he wanted to return it himself. He joked that he searched her purse for drugs and was disappointed he didn't find any. He seemed like a really nice, regular guy. I'm glad I had the chance to meet him, even if only for a few minutes.

[Chef Eric]

5. I think that's more than semi-interesting. Thank you. nt

[geckosfeet]

6. great story - did you what he was doing up there?

[lob1]

11. Yes, the artists dressing rooms were up there. He was

was going to or coming from his dressing room when he found her purse.

[Initech]

7. He was truly a modern day prophet.

[Whiskeytide]

8. He was the best "every man" we ever had...

I listened to his autobiography on CD earlier this year - read by his brother who sounds just like him. I never realized what a tough life he had both as a child and as a performer. It was interesting to learn how he came around to a progressive mind set, and the no BS take he had on it. I wish we had more like him. RIP, George, if you can.

[pokerfan]

9. Why is it...

Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place?

These conservatives are really something, aren't they? They are all in favor of the unborn, they will do anything for the unborn, but once you're born, you're on your own! Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that they don't want to know about you, they don't want to hear from you . . . no neo-natal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing! If you're pre-born, you're fine. If you're pre-school, you're fucked.

Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach military age. Then they think you are just fine, just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.

(George Carlin: Back in Town)

[RedSpartan]

12. He was the best.

He left us far too soon.

[spanone]

10. bingo

[pokerfan]

13. Wikiquote has a nice collection of Carlin quotations

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Carlin

From "It's Bad for Ya" (2008)

I call him governor bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where they hang his portrait, I don't care how big his library is. To me, he'll always be "governor bush." I don't even capitalize his name when I type it anymore.

"God bless America!" Once again, respectfully, I say to myself: "What the fuck does that mean?" God bless America? Is that a request? Is that a demand? Is that a suggestion? Politicians say it at the end of every speech as if it were some sort of verbal tick that they can't get rid of. "God bless you and God bless America! God bless you and God bless America!" I guess they figure that if they leave it out someone's gonna think they're bad Americans! Let me tell you a little secret about God, folks: God does not give a flyin' fuck about America. OK? He doesn't care! He never cared about this country! He never has, he never will. He doesn't care about this country anymore than he cares about Mongolia Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, the Suez Canal or the North Pole! He simply doesn't care, OK? He doesn't care! Listen! There are 200 countries in the world now! Do these people honestly think that God is sitting around picking out his favorites? Why would he do that? Why would God have a favorite country? And why would it be America out of all the countries? Because you have the most money? Because he likes our National Anthem? Maybe it's because he heard we have 18 delicious flavors of Classic Rice-A-Roni? It's delusional thinking! And America is not alone with this sort of delusions. Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed! Somebody's wasting their fucking time! Could it be... everyone? Now... now... If people wanna say "God Bless America", that's their business, I don't care, but here's what I don't understand: If they say "God Bless America", presumably, they believe in God and if they do, they must have heard, God loved everyone! That's what he said, he loved everyone and loved them equally! So why would these people ask God to do something that went against his own teachings? You know what these "God Bless America" people oughta do? They oughta check with that Jesus fellow they're so crazy about. They're always talking about "What would Jesus do?" They don't wanna know so they can do it - they just wanna know so they can tell other people to do it! Well, I'll tell you what Jesus would have done. I'll tell you what Jesus would have done! He would have gone up on the top of the Empire State Building and said: "God bless everyone around the world forever and ever 'till the end of time!" That's what Jesus would have done, and that's what these people should do, or else they should admit that "God Bless America" is really just some sort of an empty slogan, with no real meaning except for something vague like "good luck!" Good luck, America! You're on your own!... which is a little bit closer to the truth!