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Co-Host: John Petersen

News of the Bogus:

• 0:53 – Spain Gives Catalonia A Deadline: Retract Independence Claim Or Else http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/11/557166811/spain-gives-catalonia-a-deadline-retract-independence-claim-or-else
  • Catalonia Shows the Danger of Disarming Civilians https://fee.org/articles/catalonia-shows-the-danger-of-disarming-civilians/
• 7:23 – Black Lives Matter Students Shut Down the ACLU’s Campus Free Speech Event Because ‘Liberalism Is White Supremacy’ http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/04/black-lives-matter-students-shut-down-th
• 11:45 – Knowingly exposing others to HIV will no longer be a felony in California http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-gov-brown-downgrades-from-felony-to-1507331544-htmlstory.html

16:03 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-41463401

21:10 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Nintendo https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171002/14425838331/nintendo-nixes-live-streams-own-creators-program-some-reason.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “Even when an appeals court-sized decision is handed down, it probably won’t become cut and dried, because ‘Fair Use’ is one of those things, like pornography, we are meant to know when we see them.” —Neil Gaiman

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 1:43 – Victories for Eight of Nine Marijuana Initiatives Hasten the Collapse of Prohibition http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/09/victories-for-eight-of-nine-marijuana-in
• 7:30 – Brexit court ruling appeal date set for 5 December http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37913911
  • Brexit: Scotland backs legal case against UK government http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/08/europe/brexit-scotland-legal-case/
• 13:13 – Family reports finding razor blade in Halloween candy http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/gastonia/family-reports-finding-razor-blade-in-halloween-candy/346501950
  • Parents warned to double check Halloween candy, nails, thumb tacks & razor blades found in candy http://www.wilx.com/content/news/Parents-warned-to-double-check-Halloween-candy-nails-thumb-tacks–razor-blades-found-in-candy-399628841.html
  • Hamilton County sheriff investigating after blade reported in Halloween candy http://www.wthr.com/article/hamilton-county-sheriff-investigating-after-blade-reported-in-halloween-candy
  • Police urging parents to check Halloween candy after reports of sewing needles, razor blades found in candy bars http://globalnews.ca/news/3038102/police-urging-parents-to-check-halloween-candy-after-sewing-needles-razor-blades-found-in-candy-bars/
  • Police suspect razor blade hidden in child’s Halloween candy http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2016/11/police_suspect_razor_blade_hid.html
  • Poisoned Halloween Candy http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp
  • The Trick http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0011/0011_01.asp

24:36 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Aaron Blake https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2016/11/07/how-faithless-electors-are-messing-with-our-electoral-maps-explained/

30:34 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Brodhead High School https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/11/01/a-school-wanted-to-teach-teens-about-safe-driving-so-students-were-told-their-classmates-died/

• NBC15 Madison https://www.facebook.com/NBC15Madison/posts/10154609788818187?comment_id=10154609837108187&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D
• Scary — and ineffective http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-01-31/news/bs-ed-scared-straight-20110131_1_straight-type-programs-straight-program-youths

This Week’s Quote: “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” —H.L. Mencken

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – Brexit ‘2nd Referendum Petition’ A 4 Chan Prank: BBC Report It As Real https://heatst.com/uk/exclusive-brexit-2nd-referendum-petition-a-4-chan-prank-bbc-report-it-as-real/
• 7:19 – Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Case, IP-Address Doesn’t Prove Anything https://torrentfreak.com/judge-dismisses-movie-piracy-case-ip-address-doesnt-prove-anything-160627/
• 11:46 – Court Rules the FBI Does Not Need a Warrant to Hack a Computer http://motherboard.vice.com/read/court-rules-the-fbi-does-not-need-a-warrant-to-hack-a-computer
  • Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/federal-court-fourth-amendment-does-not-protect-your-home-computer

19:12 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Hillary Clinton https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160628/05570734838/hillary-clintons-tech-policy-plan-includes-some-empty-broadband-promises-continued-war-encryption.shtml

• Top Donors data for Hillary Clinton, 2016 Cycle https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contrib.php?id=N00000019&cycle=2016&type=f&src=c

26:51 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Comodo Group, Inc. https://letsencrypt.org/2016/06/23/defending-our-brand.html

This Week’s Quote: “Before September 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras…would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.” —Jeffrey Rosen

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – David Cameron announces resignation as UK votes to leave EU http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/24/europe/uk-eu-referendum-results/
  • What will happen now that Britain has voted to leave the E.U. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/23/what-actually-happens-if-britain-votes-to-leave-the-e-u/
  • Will Boris Johnson become U.K. prime minister in 2016? https://www.predictit.org/Contract/2467/Will-Boris-Johnson-become-UK-prime-minister-in-2016
• 11:43 – ‘We Will Be Back’: Democrats Vow to Continue Gun Control Protests as House Adjourns http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/back-house-vows-continue-gun-control-protests-house/story?id=40045649
  • Justin Amash on Twitter: “Democrats are staging a sit-in on the House floor. They…” https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/745679387450871808
• 17:53 – Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action Program at University of Texas http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/us/politics/supreme-court-affirmative-action-university-of-texas.html
  • FISHER v. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ET AL. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/14-981_4g15.pdf
• 25:38 – Non-US encryption is ‘theoretical,’ claims CIA chief in backdoor debate http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/17/non_us_encryption_is_theoretical_claims_cia/

30:42 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Glenn Stone http://pages.wustl.edu/files/pages/imce/stone/stone_glover_2016_golden_rice.pdf

• Activists played ‘no role’ in delaying Golden Rice’? Evidence challenges anti-GMO claim https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/06/15/activists-played-no-role-delaying-golden-rice-evidence-challenges-glenn-stones-claim/

37:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Gersh Kuntzman http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/15/gersh-kuntzman-ny-daily-news-writer-firing-ar-15-g/

This Week’s Quote: “Governments, by their nature, are instruments of privilege.” —Robert LeFevre