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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 2:31 – Police: Finding Pirate Bay Documents is Too Expensive http://torrentfreak.com/police-finding-pirate-bay-documents-expensive-140824/
• 8:47 – What I’ve Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings http://gawker.com/what-ive-learned-from-two-years-collecting-data-on-poli-1625472836
  • Ferguson Turns Lens On Police-Involved Killings, But Some Facts Are Few http://www.npr.org/2014/08/21/342228794/ferguson-turns-lens-on-police-involved-killings-but-some-facts-are-few
• 23:27 – Overtaxed and over there http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21587815-loopy-tax-rules-spur-expats-renounce-their-american-citizenship-overtaxed-and-over-there

31:34 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The WHO http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/sarah-knapton/11056964/Ban-toxic-e-cigarettes-indoors-says-World-Health-Organisation.html

40:36 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Barack Obama http://www.techtimes.com/articles/13774/20140823/white-house-cybersecurity-leader-proudly-claims-he-knows-nothing-about-cybersecurity.htm

This Week’s Quote: “It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Cops Aren’t Stopping the Looting in Ferguson, So the Protesters Are http://thefreethoughtproject.com/protestors-stop-looters-ferguson-police/
• 7:20 – Rules prevent solar panels in many states with abundant sunlight http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-no-solar-20140810-story.html
  • A PETITION From the Manufacturers of Candles, Tapers, Lanterns, sticks, Street Lamps, Snuffers, and Extinguishers, and from Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alcohol, and Generally of Everything Connected with Lighting. http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
• 14:33 – Georgia county won’t pay medical bills for toddler burned by grenade in botched drug raid http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/19/georgia-county-wont-pay-medical-bills-for-toddler-burned-by-grenade-in-botched-drug-raid/

19:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: San Francisco http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/san-francisco-bans-sale-plastic-water-bottles-climate-change

• Bottled Water Companies Could Be Contributing to California’s Drought http://www.sfweekly.com/foodie/2014/08/14/bottled-water-companies-could-be-contributing-to-californias-drought

Idiot Extraordinaire: Summerville (SC) High School & Summerville Police http://www.nbc12.com/story/26319685/cops-summerville-high-school-student-arrested-after-writing-threatening-message-on-assignment

This Week’s Quote: “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” —Ben Franklin

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:32 – Ferguson police fire teargas and rubber bullets at Michael Brown protesters http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/ferguson-police-teargas-rubber-bullets-michael-brown
  • In Ferguson, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery gives account of his arrest http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-ferguson-washington-post-reporter-wesley-lowery-gives-account-of-his-arrest/2014/08/13/0fe25c0e-2359-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html
  • ‘Overkill’: Images from Ferguson protest show cops treating city like a war zone http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/13/overkill-images-from-ferguson-protest-show-cops-treating-city-like-a-war-zone/
• 10:51 – New leaker disclosing U.S. secrets, government concludes http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/05/politics/u-s-new-leaker/index.html
• 13:47 – South Carolina Mom Calls Cops On 15-Year-Old Son After Finding Porn http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/07/mom-finds-porn-on-tv_n_5659487.html
• 17:23 – Burger Robot Poised To Disrupt Fast Food Industry http://singularityhub.com/2014/08/10/burger-robot-poised-to-disrupt-fast-food-industry/
• 22:08 – For Obama, Iraq Move Is a Policy Reversal http://online.wsj.com/articles/for-obama-iraq-move-is-a-policy-reversal-1407470613
  • Obama Vows ‘Long-Term’ War in Iraq http://news.antiwar.com/2014/08/09/obama-vows-long-term-war-in-iraq/
• 27:15 – Tempe City Council Bans E-Cigarettes In Public Places http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2014/08/05/tempe-city-council-bans-e-cigarettes-in-public-places/

33:56 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Michael Yaki http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5810

38:11 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Michael Mulgrew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYU6fLz7Fgg

• The Next Generation Science Standards http://www.nextgenscience.org/implementation

This Week’s Quote: “Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.” —Bertrand Russell

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News of the Bogus:

• 1:46 – ‘Six Californias’ plan may make 2016 ballot http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/07/15/six-californias-tim-draper/12661161/
• 7:06 – The curious grammar of police shootings http://m.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/14/the-curious-grammar-of-police-shootings/
  Right to a Gun vs. Right to Health Care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ggkimWfFk
• 15:38 – Anarchist Protestors Blocked Uber Cars in the Streets of Seattle http://valleywag.gawker.com/anarchist-protestors-blocked-uber-cars-in-the-streets-o-1568739346

22:02 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Damon Linker http://theweek.com/article/index/264546/how-liberalism-became-an-intolerant-dogma

30:15 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Mike Dawson http://mikedawwwson.tumblr.com/post/91854168921/santrevl-hound-actual-armedplatypus

• https://twitter.com/mike_daws/status/489084575885570048
• https://twitter.com/mike_daws/status/489084892979142656

This Week’s Quote: “Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right—a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with or near about them, who may oppose this movement.” —Abraham Lincoln

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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: 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: Tim Dyson

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – Security mishandled pipe bomb, dumped its contents http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/24/security-mishandled-pipe-bomb-dumped-its-contents
• 2:53 – NSA reforms are little more than window dressing http://offnow.org/2014/01/17/nsa-reforms-window-dressing/
  • Rating Obama’s NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard Explained https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/rating-obamas-nsa-reform-plan-eff-scorecard-explained
• 9:20 – Marijuana Legalization Scares Us, Panicked DEA Official Tells Senators http://reason.com/blog/2014/01/17/marijuana-legalization-scares-us-panicke
• 13:06 – Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs in the Country: Police Officer is NOT on the List http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-top-10-dangerous-jobs-country-tanks/

18:14 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Air Force http://gizmodo.com/5978125/air-force-uses-martin-luther-king-junior-to-promote-nuclear-warfare

• Archive of the Air Force’s post http://web.archive.org/web/20130216164341/http://www.afgsc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123333051

20:59 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The Economic Policy Institute http://www.epi.org/minimum-wage-statement/

• Minimum Wages and Employment http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~dneumark/min_wage_review.pdf

This Week’s Quote: “It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.” —Murray Rothbard

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – The U.S. Government And The Sinaloa Cartel http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1
• 2:16 – In 2009, Half the World’s Polio Cases Were in India: Today, There Are None http://world.time.com/2014/01/12/india-polio-free-for-three-years/
• 7:02 – Ex-Fullerton Officers Found Not Guilty In Beating Death Of Kelly Thomas http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/01/13/jury-reaches-verdict-in-trial-of-ex-fullerton-officers-charged-in-death-of-kelly-thomas/
  • Jurors’ verdict on O.C. officers may hinge on grainy video http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-kelly-thomas-20140111,0,1008152.story

14:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Weather Channel http://www.thewrap.com/weather-channel-directv-carriage-sam-champion-tca

• Weather Channel Tries ‘Public Safety’ Blackmail to Hike Its Fee from DirecTV http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2014/01/12/weather-channel-tries-public-safety-blackmail-hike-its-fee-directv

17:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Rachel Maddow (nominated by BlameThe1st) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9JD2UByv9s

This Week’s Quote: “Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.” —Thomas Sowell