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Co-Host: Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 0:54 – Key Senator Leahy drops patent reform bill for now http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/21/us-usa-patents-congress-idUSBREA4K0T920140521
  • Infamous scanner “patent troll” seeks sanctions—against the government http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/infamous-scanner-patent-troll-seeks-sanctions-against-the-government/
• 7:37 – Madagascar Against Monsanto: Madagascar Pranks March Against Monsanto – What is the difference? http://madagainstmonsanto.blogspot.com/2014/05/madagascar-pranks-march-against.html
• 15:50 – U.S. Food Inflation Running at 22% http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/24/U-S-Food-Inflation-Running-at-22
  • Deflating Food Package Sizes is Evidence of Inflation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7BOdS3unpg

20:56 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Richard Martinez http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/father-of-victim-in-santa-barbara-shootings-to-politicians-i-dont-care-about-your-sympathy/2014/05/27/8a030d10-e5ad-11e3-a86b-362fd5443d19_story.html

• Brady Campaign 2013 Scorecard http://www.bradycampaign.org/sites/default/files/SCGLM-Final10-spreads-points.pdf

31:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Big Earl’s Restaurant http://happyplace.someecards.com/lgbt/a-tx-restaurant-slurred-and-banned-a-gay-couple-and-theyre-sticking-to-it-their-yelp-page-is-now-fabulous/

This Week’s Quote: “Segregation was enforced in the South precisely because so many people were opposed to segregation. You don’t pass a law to force people to do what they would do anyway…Without a law mandating segregation, the first white company to hire black workers and serve all customers would have set in motion a train of events that would have made segregation impossible.” —Harry Browne

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/05/19/data-pirates-caribbean-nsa-recording-every-cell-phone-call-bahamas/
  • ‘Country X’: WikiLeaks reveals NSA recording ‘nearly all’ phone calls in Afghanistan http://rt.com/news/160988-wikileaks-nsa-phone-afghanistan/
• 7:18 – Secrets, lies and Snowden’s email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email
• 12:37 – White House vows CIA will not stage fake vaccine programs https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-vows-cia-not-stage-fake-vaccine-220506787.html

15:21 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Anton Purisima http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/05/2-undecillion-dollar-demand.html

• $2 Undecillion Lawsuit https://what-if.xkcd.com/96/

17:58 – Silver Cluon Award: Tyler Vigen http://www.tylervigen.com/

21:47 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Being Liberal https://www.facebook.com/592589870775439/photos/a.592592887441804.1073741828.592589870775439/795910880443336/?type=1

• Original graphic: http://www.dailymayo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rights.jpg

This Week’s Quote: “The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge.” —Carl Sagan

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Co-host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Male rape in America: A new study reveals that men are sexually assaulted almost as often as women.
  http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/04/male_rape_in_america_a_new_study_reveals_that_men_are_sexually_assaulted.html
• 14:25 – Federal Court: The Police Can Stop and Search You for Behaving Innocently http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-bodine/federal-court-the-police-_b_5223918.html
• 26:42 – Teen Dead After Alabama Police ‘Shoved Sharp Object Into Throat’ to Retrieve Drugs http://appalachianareanews.com/teen-dead-after-alabama-police-cut-throat-open-to-retrieve-drugs/

32:44 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Milwaukee County Deputy Joseph Quiles (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://fox40.com/2014/05/02/sober-driver-arrested-for-dui-after-deputy-crashes-into-her/

38:54 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Matthew Yglesias (again), Benjamin Lockwood, Charles Nathanson, and Glen Weyl (nominated by BreadGod) http://www.vox.com/2014/4/20/5629904/study-tax-hikes-could-grow-the-economy

This Week’s Quote: “I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights, human rights are all that I recognize.” —Sarah Grimké

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Live Spreecast video: http://www.spreecast.com/events/bogosity-podcast-for-12-may-2014

News of the Bogus:

• 3:01 – 17 Facts To Show To Anyone That Still Believes That The U.S. Economy Is Just Fine http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-30/17-facts-show-anyone-still-believes-us-economy-just-fine
• 21:32 – How Net Neutrality Hurts the Poor http://theumlaut.com/2014/04/30/how-net-neutrality-hurts-the-poor/
• 29:10 – Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson: Emails Reveal White House Hid Truths About Benghazi Attack http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/05/03/former-cbs-reporter-sharyl-attkisson-ben

34:13 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Undercover Police Officers in Madison, Pittsburgh, et al http://www.fastcompany.com/3029754/most-innovative-companies/undercover-police-are-targeting-uber-and-lyft-drivers-to-send-a-me

39:03 – Idiot Extraordinaire: NYPD https://www.vocativ.com/culture/media/nypd-twitter-campaign-backfires-catastrophically-within-minutes/

This Week’s Quote: “The end move in politics is to pick up a gun.” —Buckminster Fuller

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Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas, Dave Turcotte, and Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 3:18 – Obama Is Still Hiding the Legal Cover He Used to Kill an American
  http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/obama-still-wants-us-ignorant-about-why-he-thinks-he-can-kill-americans/361018/
  • The Al-Awlaki Decision: No Triumph for Transparency? http://www.lawfareblog.com/2014/04/the-al-awlaki-decision-no-triumph-for-transparency/
• 14:21 – The attempted rehabilitation of Mike Nifong http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/04/21/the-attempted-rehabilitation-of-mike-nifong/
• 29:40 – Student records being bullied on iPad threatened with felony http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/14/special-ed-student-who-recorded-being-bullied-on-his-ipad-threatened-with-felony-wiretapping-charges/

41:28 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Rand Paul http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/07/Rand-Paul-Does-American-Crossroads-Robocall-To-Thwart-Libertarian-Candidate

• Did Libertarian Lucas Overby Throw Florida Special Election to Republican Jolly? http://reason.com/blog/2014/03/12/did-libertarian-lucas-overby-throw-flori

50:08 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Unnamed Riverside County, CA Sheriff’s Deputy http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/17/calif-tv-station-films-dog-calmly-playing-with-kids-after-cop-shoots-himself-trying-to-kill-it/

This Week’s Quote: “The history of human knowledge is nothing more than the realization that yesterday’s pieties are actually shameful errors.” —Glenn Greenwald

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – 86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers http://m.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/86m-full-time-private-sector-workers-sustain-148m-benefit-takers
• 4:17 – Citing decades-old claims, feds seize tax refunds http://overlawyered.com/2014/04/federal-government-seizes-tax-refunds-citing-decades-old-claims/
• 11:40 – Ron Paul’s Group Fined by IRS for Not Handing Over Donor List http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/04/16/ron-pauls-group-fined-irs-not-handing-over-donor-list
  • 501(c)(4) organization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization#501.28c.29.284.29
• 13:45 – Organic Marketing Report: Why Consumers Pay more For Organic Foods? Fear Sells and Marketers Know it http://academicsreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/AR_Organic-Marketing-Report_Print.pdf

22:51 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: David Kirby http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/post2468343_b_2468343.html

• Genetics and the myth of vaccine encephalopathy http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603512/

Idiot Extraordinaire: J. Pepper Bryars http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/04/libertarianism_isnt_an_alterna.html

This Week’s Quote: “What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn’t make it worse…People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.” —Eugene Gendlin

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – Support is Ending for Windows XP http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help
  • Windows XP support will be available after April 8—just not for you http://www.pcworld.com/article/2139929/windows-xp-support-will-be-available-after-april-8-just-not-for-you.html
  • Setup Limited Users in Windows XP http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1838566,00.asp
• 7:40 – The IRS has called bitcoin property, but the Financial Crimes Enforcment Network calls it money
  http://upstart.bizjournals.com/news/technology/2014/03/28/irs-calls-bitcoin-property.html?page=all
  • IRS Virtual Currency FAQ http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf
  • FIN-2013-G001 http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001.html
• 11:21 – Lawsuit: Man Arrested, Searched For Marijuana Solely For Having Colorado License Plate http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2014/03/28/lawsuit-man-arrested-searched-for-marijuana-solely-for-having-colorado-license-plate/
• 16:54 – McCutcheon v. FEC http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-536_e1pf.pdf
  • Here’s a Plain-English Explanation of the Huge Supreme Court Decision That Was Made Today http://www.policymic.com/articles/86763/here-s-a-plain-english-explanation-of-the-huge-supreme-court-decision-that-was-made-today

21:00 – Silver Cluon Award: James Wilson and Perry Willis https://secure.downsizedc.org/blog/the-untold-truth-about-the-mccutcheon-decision

25:04 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Adam Weinstein http://gawker.com/arrest-climate-change-deniers-1553719888

32:18 – Idiot Extraordinaire: San Francisco Google Protesters http://mashable.com/2014/04/06/google-ventures-kevin-rose-san-francisco-protesters/

This Week’s Quote: “I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.” —John Adams

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Co-Host: Tim Dyson

News of the Bogus:

• 0:32 – Man Arrested For Drinking Iced Tea Could Get Probation, Community Service http://libertycrier.com/man-arrested-drinking-iced-tea-get-probation-community-service/
• 3:40 – Teaching grownups: Cancer charity says school can learn from girl banned for going bald http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/25/girl-barred-from-school-for-shaving-her-head-to-support-friend-with-cancer/
• 9:35 – Homeopathy product recalled over fears it may contain actual medicine http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/homeopathy-product-recalled-over-fears-it-may-contain-actual-medicine-9217206.html
  • Terra-Medica Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Specified Lots of Pleo Homeopathic Drug Products Due to the Potential for Undeclared Penicillin http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm389832.htm
• 15:32 – Creationists Complain Neil deGrasse Tyson’s ‘Cosmos’ Isn’t Giving Them Airtime http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/creationists-neil-degrasse-tyson-cosmos-unbalanced

20:44 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Debby Vadja https://www.change.org/petitions/jimmy-wales-founder-of-wikipedia-create-and-enforce-new-policies-that-allow-for-true-scientific-discourse-about-holistic-approaches-to-healing/responses/11054

28:01 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Don Lemon and Mary Schaivo http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-don-lemon-is-it-preposterous-to-think-a-black-hole-caused-flight-370-to-go-missing/

This Week’s Quote: “[It’s] not about the need to separate church and state; it’s about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

0:27 – Update: Twitch Plays Pokémon beats Pokémon http://www.anandtech.com/show/7822/twitch-plays-pokmon-beats-pokmon

News of the Bogus:

• 9:00 – Subway: Stop Using Dangerous Chemicals In Your Bread http://foodbabe.com/subway/
  • Azodicarbonamide – WHO http://apps.who.int/bookorders/anglais/detart1.jsp?codlan=1&codcol=38&codcch=16
• 18:47 – Obama aiming for ‘unilateral disarmament’ http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/obama-aiming-for-unilateral-disarmament/?cat_orig=politics

25:27 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Mark Gongloff http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/bitcoin-user-demographics-libertarian-men_n_4874727.html

35:15 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The TSA http://dailyanarchist.com/2014/02/24/the-tsa-is-looking-for-bitcoin/

• Auditing Shooting Rampage Statistics http://dailyanarchist.com/2012/07/31/auditing-shooting-rampage-statistics/

This Week’s Quote: “Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” —Nelson Mandela