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0:20 – Guest: Jim Babka http://www.downsizedc.org/

• Coal Beds, Creationism, and Mount St. Helens http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mtsthelens.html
• Young-Earth Creationist ‘Dating’ of a Mt. St. Helens Dacite: The Failure of Austin and Swenson to Recognize Obviously Ancient Minerals http://www.noanswersingenesis.org.au/mt_st_helens_dacite_kh.htm
• How Old Is the Mount St. Helens Lava Dome? http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4146

News of the Bogus:

• 9:15 – Judge Halts New York City Soda Ban http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323826704578354543929974394.html
  • Soda ban ruling a devastating defeat for Mayor Bloomberg http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/11/soda-ban-ruling-a-devastating-defeat-for-mayor-bloomberg/
• 13:15 – Man left in solitary confinement for 2 years gets $15.5 million settlement http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/06/17212442-man-left-in-solitary-confinement-for-2-years-gets-155-million-settlement
• 16:05 – Over 100 Guantanamo inmates “on hunger strike,” possibly in grave condition http://rt.com/news/guantanamo-massive-hunger-strike-142/

17:50 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Bernie Sanders http://www.politicususa.com/bernie-sanders-files-constitutional-amendment-undo-citizens-united.html

• The Democracy is for People Amendment http://www.sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/031213-CUAmendmentFactSheet1.pdf

33:10 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Ed Orcutt (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.examiner.com/article/wash-state-politician-says-bicycles-bad-for-environment-need-to-be-taxed

• The Seattle Department of Transportation Annual Report 2009 http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/docs/2009AnnualReport.pdf

This Week’s Quote: “But can you PRINT ‘Fire’ in a crowded theatre?” —Michael Cloud

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• 0:25 – Louisiana Forces Homeless Shelter To Destroy $8,000 Worth Of Deer Meat http://houston.cbslocal.com/2013/02/25/louisiana-forces-homeless-shelter-to-destroy-8000-worth-of-deer-meat/
• 5:00 – Bill would require NC schools to teach cursive handwriting http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/02/24/3872044/bill-would-require-nc-schools.html
• 8:35 – H.R.748 – To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 25 to perform national service http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/748/titles
  • Selective Draft Law Cases – 245 U.S. 366 (1918) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/245/366/case.html

15:05 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tabatha Coffey https://www.facebook.com/officialtabatha

• Why Is It So Hard to Become a Cosmetologist in America? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-16/why-is-it-so-hard-to-become-a-cosmetologist-in-america-.html
• Hairbraider to Utah Legislature: Don’t Put Me Out of Work Again http://www.ij.org/utah-hairbraiding-release-10-22-2012

20:35 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Ben Bernanke and Barack Obama

• Bernanke warns $85B spending cuts to slow economic recovery http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/284873-bernanke-warns-sequester-will-slow-economy
• Is President Obama telling the truth about sequestration? http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/obamas-sequester-talk-a-readers-guide-88066.html
• President Obama Speaks on the Sequester http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2qKuMjQvR0
• Remember when President Obama supported the sequester cuts? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj1y3q92sog

This Week’s Quote: “I think the government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.” —Milton Friedman

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:25 – Amazon patents the milkman http://www.geekwire.com/2013/amazon-patents-milkman-recurring-deliveries/
  • Amazon’s patent http://www.google.com/patents/US8370271
  • Patent on PB&J with the crust cut off http://www.google.com/patents/US6004596
  • Patent on swinging on a swing sideways http://www.google.com/patents/US6368227
  • Patent on fixing a hole with plaster 6994809
  • Patent on carrying a towel around your neck 6718554
  • Patent on “exercising” cats using a laser pointer http://www.google.com/patents/US5443036
• 3:45 – CMPD review panel rules against citizens — every time http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/02/16/3860400/cmpd-review-panel-rules-against.html
• 6:15 – The Deadly Opposition to Genetically Modified Food http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/project_syndicate0/2013/02/gm_food_golden_rice_will_save_millions_of_people_from_vitamin_a_deficiency.html
• 9:30 – Crime soared with Mass. gun law http://bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/02/17/the-nation-toughest-gun-control-law-made-massachusetts-less-safe/3845k7xHzkwTrBWy4KpkEM/story.html
  • The Black Market for Firearms http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1718.0

13:35 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Steven Mufson http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gas-prices-are-on-a-mysterious-climb/2013/02/19/26298f84-7ade-11e2-82e8-61a46c2cde3d_story.html

15:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Ken Ham http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2013/02/02/a-tiny-feathered-dino/

This Week’s Quote: “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.” —Bill Gates

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:20 – Cops Nab 5-Year-Old for Wearing Wrong Color Shoes to School http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/01/18/cops-nab-five-year-old-wearing-wrong-color-shoes-school
• 3:10 – Seven million will lose insurance under Obama health law http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/feb/5/obama-health-law-will-cost-7-million/
• 4:45 – Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/04/16843014-exclusive-justice-department-memo-reveals-legal-case-for-drone-strikes-on-americans
  • http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/justice-departments-white-paper-targeted-killing

9:45 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Krugman http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/opinion/krugman-rubio-and-the-zombies.html

• Austrian predictions/Housing bubble http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Austrian_predictions/Housing_bubble

17:15 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Melba Ketchum http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/02/a_texas_geneticist_apparently.php

• WHOIS search results for: DENOVOJOURNAL.COM http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?domain=DENOVOJOURNAL.COM

This Week’s Quote: “The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” —Carl Sagan

Sorry, no podcast this week, but check out my appearance on the Ed and Ethan podcast! http://edandethan.com/

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:25 – President Barack Obama shoots clay targets on the range at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012. http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/8436110735/
  • White House Makes Illegal Threat on Photoshoppers http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1743
• 4:05 – Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S. http://mashable.com/2013/01/23/unlocking-cellphones-illegal/
  • Ask your elected representatives to pass DownsizeDC.org’s “Write the Laws Act” (WTLA) https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/write-the-laws/
• 7:10 – Meet The Porn Star Teacher Fired For Having Sex On Video http://www.ibtimes.com/who-stacie-halas-aka-tiffany-six-meet-porn-star-teacher-fired-having-sex-video-photo-1019682
  • The Worst Union in America http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_california-teachers-association.html
• 9:55 – Feinstein plans to conduct own hearing on guns http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/jan/29/feinstein-plans-conduct-own-hearing-guns/
• 12:10 – New Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortions After Rape As ‘Tampering With Evidence’ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/new-mexico-abortion-bill_n_2541894.html

15:05 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Dave Gilson http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/pro-gun-myths-fact-check

• Auditing Shooting Rampage Statistics http://dailyanarchist.com/2012/07/31/auditing-shooting-rampage-statistics/
• Do Civilians Armed With Guns Ever Capture, Kill, or Otherwise Stop Mass Shooters? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969017/posts

22:15 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Carolyn McCarthy http://politicker.com/2013/01/carolyn-mccarthy-makes-impassioned-plea-for-gun-control-it-has-to-stop/

This Week’s Quote: “Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces.” —Joseph T. Chew

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:25 – Naked-Image Scanners to Be Removed From U.S. Airports http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-18/naked-image-scanners-to-be-removed-from-u-s-airports.html
• 1:55 – Attorney: Girl, 5, in trouble for chatting about shooting bubble gun http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/01/girl_5_in_trouble_over_bubble.html
  • Philadelphia girl scolded, searched for pulling out paper gun at school, mom says http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/23/philadelphia-girl-scolded-searched-after-pulling-out-paper-gun-at-school/
  • Fifth-grader searched, berated for paper gun in South Philly http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/24/fifth-grader-searched-berated-paper-gun/
• 5:50 – Manning denied a whistleblower defense http://www.salon.com/2013/01/18/manning_denied_a_whistleblower_defense/
• 9:35 – Marijuana Legalization Struggles: The Ridiculous Rule That’s Preventing It From Happening http://www.policymic.com/articles/24146/marijuana-legalization-struggles-the-ridiculous-rule-that-s-preventing-it-from-happening
  • The Ruling http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/12CBD2B55C34FBF585257AFB00554299/$file/11-1265-1416392.pdf
  • Quality and value: The true purpose of peer review http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/debate/nature05032.html
  • Meta-analysis of cannabis based treatments for neuropathic and multiple sclerosis-related pain http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1185/030079906×158066
  • Therapeutic use of Cannabis sativa on chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting among cancer patients: systematic review and meta-analysis http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2354.2008.00917.x/abstract

14:45 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Alex Seitz-Wald et al http://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/stop_talking_about_hitler/

21:40 – Silver Cluon Award: Laci Green http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6xuW_xhPn4

24:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Stefan Molyneux https://www.facebook.com/stefan.molyneux/posts/10151611301626679

• Screenshot of quoted posts http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanedk/8417342985/

This Week’s Quote: “I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.” —Joycelyn Elders

Holiday weekend with the kids. No podcast this week. But plenty of sentence fragments.

Let’s take some time to remember this great man this holiday reveres:

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News of the Bogus:

• Gun rights activists turn up heat on New York newspaper http://www.examiner.com/article/gun-rights-activists-turn-up-heat-on-new-york-newspaper
• FHP trooper: Illegal police searches led to her fear for her safety http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-deputy-watts-lawsuit-20121224,0,5669599.story
• Kansas demands that sperm donor pay child support http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/30/16254404-kansas-demands-that-sperm-donor-pay-child-support
• ACLU condemns court for keeping details of Obama’s assassination program secret http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/02/aclu-condemns-court-for-keeping-details-of-obamas-assassination-program-secret/

Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Krugman http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/barbarous-relics/

Idiot Extraordinaire: Piers Morgan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ror9v2LwHoY

• Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-v1UXFMzl0

This Week’s Quote: “People should never be prosecuted for what they own, for what they think, for what they eat, drink, or smoke, or for what they believe. They should be prosecuted only for the physical harm they do to others. And people who do harm others should be prosecuted—whether or not a gun is involved, and whether or not there is hate in one’s heart or liquor on one’s breath.” —Harry Browne

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Piers Morgan debating GOA Larry Pratt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FVQgLkbLjQ
  • Piers Morgan gun control debate, re Connecticut massacre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SlfRCkZt1A
  • Deporting Piers Morgan: The Battle Of the Petitions http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/12/27/deporting-piers-morgan-the-battle-of-the-petitions/
  • Piers Morgan threatens to deport himself if gun laws don’t change http://now.msn.com/piers-morgan-threatens-to-deport-himself-if-gun-laws-dont-change
  • Nicole Lapin on The Wendy Williams Show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Lw7xa6lHU
• 13:05 – Bikers show up to protect mourners from Westboro Baptist protest http://www.cochranetimes.com/2012/12/19/bikers-show-up-to-protect-mourners-from-westboro-baptist-protest
• 14:10 – North Carolina: Driving While Nervous is Not a Crime http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/39/3983.asp

16:35 – 2012 Year In Review

24:05 – Idiot of the Year: Mike Huckabee (et al) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/mike-huckabee-school-shooting_n_2303792.html

• The T-shirt: http://www.supernaturaltruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/god-is-not-allowed-in-school-247×300.jpg