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Probably not actually related but the Washington Slurs lost their team name trademark today. Unfortunately this has happened before and they got it appealed but maybe this time good can win. Should be funny to see if John becomes mad with power.
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Echo Chamber posted:Now the NSA can legally brand themselves as the "Washington Redskins". I think until the appeal goes through their trademark is still in effect. I read an article that made a good point that while they may beat it in court they're losing in public opinion as the NFL isn't too happy with the whole situation.
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Jun 19, 2014 01:44
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raditts posted:I'm surprised they talked about payday loans and NA tribe affiliations and didn't mention Western Sky, aka the guys whose commercials basically say "Yeah, if you use us we're gonna gently caress you and gently caress you hard, but you probably need us so what're you gonna do." I believe Western Sky was actually one of the few payday loan places that actually got taken down. That's how bad they were.
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Aug 15, 2014 00:57
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I did some research and Western Sky shut down last year because they basically got sued out of existence. They tried to say that literally NO laws other than that of their tribal council applied to them. Turns out that the Federal government and quite a few states don't take kindly to someone declaring themselves above the law!
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Aug 15, 2014 23:34
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richardfun posted:Well, that didn't take long. Even if it had bad ratings HBO would have been fools to pull the plug considering how influential the show already is. All those segments where he talks about actual policy makers and governments commenting on things he says.
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Sep 26, 2014 16:36
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Popelmon posted:That legislature bit was depressing as hell I liked how they cherry picked terrible people giving terrible opinions so they could later reveal they were running unopposed.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I can't see him doing the anti-vaccination movement in a full 15-minute segment, but he might touch upon it. There's not all that much to go into, is there? You should get vaccinated, and the bulk of reasons not to are terrible. Seems simple enough. He could do a full segment on it if he really dug into and explained stuff like the history of anti-vaccination and how the whole thing was started by that scumbag British doctor who was just trying to peddle his own vaccine. I would hazard a guess that a lot of anti-vaxxers don't know the full history and how it was always full of poo poo.
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Feb 12, 2015 13:46
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I'm sure he'll do something on that loving stupid presentation that Netanyahu made this week.
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Mar 5, 2015 03:53
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Last Week Tonight puts their long form segment up on Youtube for free every week.
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Mar 26, 2015 12:24
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I'd really like it for them to cover the whole Jeb Bush thing where he was trying to cheat FEC rules by running for President but not actually announcing and using that as a loophole to raise more money than he is legally allowed to. Although he could definitely get a whole show about how toothless the FEC is now and how everybody just does whatever they want.
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May 15, 2015 14:25
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Pinky Artichoke posted:The Super Bowl is coming to my city next, and it is just shocking how much free work the NFL expects people to do. I know people who did volunteer work for various Olympics, but it generally wasn't "do a full-time, highly professional project management job for 12 months" volunteer work. Do they still expect the musical guest for the halftime show to perform for free?
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May 27, 2015 23:36
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What kind of monster came up with Clamato in the first place?
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Jun 8, 2015 03:47
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I hope next week he does a piece on the madness that has overtaken Kansas. Where they kept cutting taxes until they couldn't actually pay for anything and when state employees were told that unessential employees would be going on furlough they changed the classification to say that all state employees are essential. However they still don't have any money so now they're just expected to continue working without pay. That's not the worst part, Kansas governor Sam Brownback signed a law into effect this week that tells the state supreme court that if they rule against laws he's signed they will lose their budget.
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Jun 10, 2015 03:33
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Pinky Artichoke posted:Is that even legal? The stuff Kansas is doing? No.
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Jun 10, 2015 18:28
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pentyne posted:Maybe the Tea Party will finally fall off as an actual party once there is a case study of a normal US state turning into a failed government hellhole and requires billions of dollars of federal help to restore such basic services like water, power, fire fighters and police, trash collection, etc. Didn't this already happen to a town in Colorado where they can't even afford to keep the streetlights on? (Except nobody has bailed them out.)
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Jun 11, 2015 14:56
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In an odd bit of coincidence, country music singer Randy Howard was killed Tuesday when a bounty hunter showed up at his place and a firefight broke out. Apparently the bounty hunter was serving a legal warrant but went inside Howard's house, which he could not legally do. And Tennessee, where this took place, is one of the states that does not require licenses for bounty hunting.
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Jun 12, 2015 19:43
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Fans posted:I mean pissing off people on the internet is nothing when he's made a habit of pissing off entire nations. He also made fun of the Entourage movie just as it was coming out.
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Jun 25, 2015 14:56
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They were sure that kids were smoking crack.
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Aug 2, 2015 01:30
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Peter Popoff might be the most famous case of televangelist fraud exposure ever, and he's still operating a scam church. I can't remember the guy's name off the top of my head but there was the one who took things too far and said that if people didn't donate god would literally kill him.
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Aug 17, 2015 21:34
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The whole thing is a gray area because nobody wants to be the one who decides whether or not a church's beliefs are valid.
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Aug 18, 2015 23:26
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Fans posted:Good luck getting elected when the Church is saying you're a dickhead. Technically part of the whole no taxes thing is that churches aren't supposed to officially get involved with politics. Like a lot of other parts in practice nobody ever enforces that rule.
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Aug 20, 2015 02:11
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DivisionPost posted:Blatter under official investigation, Pope Francis, Boehner resigns...dude's gonna need 45 minutes. Don't forget the AIDS drug scumbag.
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Sep 25, 2015 23:05
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Interestingly enough a bunch of celebrities have put out a video telling people to stop calling them "migrants" and instead use refugee.
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Sep 30, 2015 01:51
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The Canadian government has weighed in and stated that what John did does not count as against the law.
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Oct 19, 2015 22:35
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Without hearing why, I'm betting that it's a matter of a non-resident doing so while on Canadian soil, versus from outside the country. Am I close? They say that the law is supposed to be about more substantive persuasiveness and not just someone stating their opinion.
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Oct 20, 2015 02:08
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I wonder how annoyed they were by that Scalia news happening so late in the week. While there isn't enough for a whole segment it does mean they have to rearrange something in the weekly recap.
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Feb 14, 2016 23:39
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xcore posted:In fairness. Getting work in Hollywood isn't easy and not all actors can afford to pass on a role. Yeah, Tom Cruise is a mega star and probably should, but if you're Joel Edgerton and Ridley Scott comes and offers you a lead part in a bible epic, you're probably not in a position to turn it down. I'm not excusing the practice, but don't necessarily lump the blame on the actors for taking the part. That's actually the reason that Fisher Stevens took that part in Short Circuit, he realized it was kind of out of line but he couldn't afford to turn down work at the time.
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Feb 23, 2016 02:23
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HBO has announced that the "Make Donald Drumpf Again" segment has received something like 85 million views on Youtube.
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qbert posted:Yes, just listen to the soundtrack, which is free on Spotify. Also they're doing a tour around the country later this year I think, but good luck getting tickets over all the rabid fans that have the album on loop all day (half my co-workers). Well by "touring" they mean its going to do an extended run in LA and then San Francisco. Although later this year they're supposed to be starting up an ongoing run in Chicago.
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Echo Chamber posted:There's also the performance of the first song at the Grammys, here it is, if you want to get a feeling of the costumes and choreography. PBS is also doing a behind-the-scenes documentary. There's supposed to be interest in a TV special and a movie and that makes me wonder, has anyone ever gotten an EGOT for (technically) the same thing?
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May 3, 2016 17:23
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Echo Chamber posted:
He's been killing it as the bad guy in this season of Gotham.
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May 10, 2016 00:26
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This has literally nothing to do with anything, stop slapfighting about it.
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Jul 12, 2016 13:05
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:John Mellencamp may look more like Beast from Disney's Beauty And The Beast every year but that's still a really hurtful thing to say about him. Sheryl Crow was still looking pretty good for being in her 50s.
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Please take election talk to the relevant subforum especially as:Echo Chamber posted:John Oliver barely commented on Bernie Sanders so I don't know where this discussion in this thread is coming from. To clarify, I'm not saying there shouldn't be any political talk, just try and keep in mind that it should be more about how events are being covered seeing as this is a thread about a news program. muscles like this! fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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Aug 2, 2016 14:13
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For something as seemingly innocuous as a tanning bed their industry is extremely scummy. Especially in regards to marketing to teens.
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Popelmon posted:The reporter? That was Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire, Vinyl). The Mark Ruffalo look worked well for him.
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Aug 8, 2016 20:25
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The networks don't really care about late night talk show ratings any more. They're more interested in if a segment goes viral on youtube.
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Aug 16, 2016 10:13
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Azhais posted:Even eligibility is completely random around here. Texas you need like a GED and a driver's license. Minnesota needs a 2 or 4 year degree (in anything) followed by a peace officer training program followed by a state board certification exam. Then you have the elected position of Sheriff which definitely shouldn't be a political choice considering their broad powers.
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The thing I'm kind of surprised he didn't touch was Jill Stein and the whole unclear ties to Russia.
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The thing I'm kind of surprised he didn't touch was Jill Stein and the whole unclear ties to Russia.
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