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News of the Bogus:

• 0:28 – FAA allowing most electronic device use throughout flights http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/travel/faa-portable-electronic-devices/
• 5:13 – FBI makes record $28 million Bitcoin bust http://rt.com/usa/bitcoin-fbi-seize-money-770/
• 15:26 – Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21213547-obama-admin-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance
  • “The Incredible Bread Machine” by R.W. Grant http://www.enterpriseintegrators.com/flint/4thr/TomSmithsIncredibleBreadMachinePoem.txt
• 22:18 – As Europe erupts over US spying, NSA chief says government must stop media  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/25/europe-erupts-nsa-spying-chief-government
• 30:05 – Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as Evidence http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/us/federal-prosecutors-in-a-policy-shift-cite-warrantless-wiretaps-as-evidence.html

35:38 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Buchheit (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.nationofchange.org/public-beats-private-six-reasons-why-1382448019

59:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Diane Feinstein http://thestateweekly.com/sen-feinsteins-proposed-bill-would-incriminate-anyone-speaking-against-nsas-spying-and-courts/

• Feinstein Claims NSA Spying Program Could Have Prevented 9/11 Attacks http://thestateweekly.com/feinstein-claims-nsa-spying-program-could-have-prevented-911-attacks/
• Feinstein defends NSA data collection and insists program is ‘not surveillance’ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/21/dianne-feinstein-defends-nsa-data-collection

This Week’s Quote: “No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth.The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.” —Thomas Jefferson

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Co-Hosts: Tim Dyson and Charles Thomas http://www.youtube.com/user/Dukect

News of the Bogus:

• 1:18 – From the Start, Signs of Trouble at Health Portal http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/us/politics/from-the-start-signs-of-trouble-at-health-portal.html
  • Obamacare’s Website Is Crashing Because It Doesn’t Want You To Know How Costly Its Plans Are http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/10/14/obamacares-website-is-crashing-because-it-doesnt-want-you-to-know-health-plans-true-costs/
  • ‘So gloriously inept it circles back to amazing’: Obamacare website so bad the ‘error page has an error’ http://twitchy.com/2013/10/12/so-gloriously-inept-it-circles-back-to-amazing-obamacare-website-so-bad-the-error-page-has-an-error/
  • How to successfully register for health insurance on HealthCare.gov http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/10/tips-for-creating-heathcare-gov-acount/index.htm
  • Canadian officials fired IT firm behind troubled Obamacare website http://washingtonexaminer.com/canadian-officials-fired-it-firm-behind-troubled-obamacare-website/article/2537101
• 13:30 – The core Internet institutions abandon the US Government http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/10/11/the-core-internet-institutions-abandon-the-us-government/
• 16:00 – NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html
• 24:50 – In U.S., Perceived Need for Third Party Reaches New High http://www.gallup.com/poll/165392/perceived-need-third-party-reaches-new-high.aspx

30:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tom Watson http://www.salon.com/2013/10/21/dont_ally_with_libertarians_ideologues_co_opt_an_anti_nsa_rally/singleton/

• Stop Watching Us – A Coalition Against Mass Surveillance https://optin.stopwatching.us/

41:40 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Rep. George Miller http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4468346

This Week’s Quote: “Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept.” —Frank Herbert

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Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:28 – Shutdown Theater: NPS Orders Closure Of Park That Receives No Federal Funding http://libertycrier.com/shutdown-theater-nps-orders-closure-park-receives-federal-funding/
  • White House Ordering Hundreds of Privately Run, Privately Funded Parks to Close http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/02/shutdown-white-house-ordering-privately-run-privately-funded-parks-to-close/
  • Rushmore blockage stirs anger in S.D. http://siouxfallsbusinessjournal.argusleader.com/article/20131004/UPDATES/310040047/S-D-officials-object-feds-barring-visitors-from-highway-viewing-areas-near-Mount-Rushmore
  • Troops Forage for Food While Golfers Play On in Shutdown http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/troops-forage-for-food-while-golfers-play-on-in-shutdown.html
• 11:10 – Obamacare On Hold http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanedk/10100703256/
  • Trader Joe’s To Drop Health Coverage For Part-Time Workers Under Obamacare: Memo http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/trader-joes-obamacare_n_3902341.html
  • UPDATED: Obamacare Poster Boy Chad Henderson and His Dad Didn’t Really Buy Insurance http://reason.com/archives/2013/10/04/obamacare-chad-henderson-father/
  • Most Obamacare enrollment applications flawed http://www.cnbc.com/id/101087965
• 28:35 – How Snowden’s Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/03/228878659/how-snowdens-email-provider-tried-to-foil-the-fbi-using-tiny-font
• 34:05 – All signs point to the obvious with the War on Drugs as supply is up and prices are down http://txcann.com/2013/10/02/all-signs-point-to-the-obvious-with-the-war-on-drugs-as-supply-is-up-and-prices-are-down/
  • The temporal relationship between drug supply indicators: an audit of international government surveillance systems http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/9/e003077.abstract?sid=779f6f3f-d4e6-4643-a14c-01de5a8a3ef3
  • P&T Doughnuts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u59-PoxbwE

40:15 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Ed Schultz http://www.mediaite.com/tv/serious-racism-here-ed-schultz-insists-gops-shutdown-showdown-motivated-by-hate/

47:57 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Saleh bin Saad al-Luhaydan http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2013/09/28/Driving-affects-ovary-and-pelvis-Saudi-sheikh-warns-women.html

• Saudis fear there will be “no more virgins” and people will turn gay if female drive ban is lifted http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068810/Saudis-fear-virgins-people-turn-gay-female-drive-ban-lifted.html

Catch-22: http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=bq4dyGzuN7w&subid=&offerid=239662.1&type=10&tmpid=8433&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%252Fw%252Fcatch-22-joseph-heller%252F1100216099

This Week’s Quote: “The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.” —Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:25 – Supreme Court Ruling On Gene Patenting May Be A Boon For Biotech Startups http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/supreme-court-ruling-on-gene-patenting-may-be-a-boon-for-biotech-startups/
• 2:20 – The Supreme Court Decided Your Silence Can Be Used Against You http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/supreme-court-salinas-v-texas-ruling-explained/66309/

• 7:55 – ‘The worst case of scientific censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of Galileo’: Scientists call for drugs to be legalised to allow proper study of their properties http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-worst-case-of-scientific-censorship-since-the-catholic-church-banned-the-works-of-galileo-scientists-call-for-drugs-to-be-legalised-to-allow-proper-study-of-their-properties-8654514.html
  • A clear danger from cannabis http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/29/cannabis-schizophrenia-classification

12:15 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: San Francisco International Airport http://news.yahoo.com/rental-car-co-run-teenagers-undercuts-hertz-avis-142119464.html

15:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Rep. John Larson (D-CT) http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/06/13/democrat-not-fair-to-subject-congress-to-obamacare-just-like-everyone-else/

This Week’s Quote: “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.” —P.J. O’Rourke

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:25 – Like your health care policy? You may be losing it https://news.yahoo.com/health-care-policy-may-losing-184734527.html
• 3:00 – EU to ban olive oil jugs from restaurants http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10064787/EU-to-ban-olive-oil-jugs-from-restaurants.html

• 6:00 – Topless Women in Public Not Breaking the Law, Says NYPD http://www.policymic.com/articles/42359/topless-women-in-public-not-breaking-the-law-says-nypd

9:45 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Rand Paul http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-rand-paul-aggressively-courting-evangelicals-to-win-over-gop-establishment/2013/05/12/d917ccb4-b8af-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html

13:35 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Hungary http://www.realfarmacy.com/hungary-destroys-all-monsanto-gmo-corn-fields/

This Week’s Quote: “It is a terrible tragedy of life that the innocent so often have to suffer for the sins of the guilty.” —Harry Browne

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/man-whose-wmd-lies-led-to-100000-deaths-confesses-all-7606236.html
  • Truth About War http://truthaboutwar.org/
• 2:35 – Report slams denied ambulance call death http://www.thelocal.se/39930/20120327/
  • Heart attack victim dies after ambulance denied http://www.thelocal.se/39656/20120314/
  • Boy’s call about fatal fire dismissed as ‘prank’ http://www.thelocal.se/39494/20120305/
  • 17-year-old dies after ambulance no-show http://www.thelocal.se/39022/20120209/
  • Man dies after ambulance call went unanswered http://www.thelocal.se/38842/20120201/
• 7:15 – Trolling Could Get You 25 Years in Jail in Arizona http://gizmodo.com/5898585/itll-soon-be-illegal-to-troll-in-arizona

8:45 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: C0nc0rdance (nominated by Neil Purcell) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oygQVhu30s

• Butt-tax blowback http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/butt_tax_blowback_QC2Bti6DW6m4Fe9mmF4iVI
• The Political Interests Paradox http://www.downsizedcfoundation.org/blog/the-political-interests-paradox

23:30 – Idiot Extraordinaire: NYC Department of Education http://io9.com/5896836/nyc-dept-of-education-wants-to-ban-the-word-dinosaur-from-standardized-tests

This Week’s Quote: “Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.” —John Alexander Smith