Friday, March 30, 2012

Episode 051 flies east speaking Amanda Knief, Jehovah Phineas, and Rob Curry andspreading freethought and goodwill to all the good, thinking children

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This Week we skype it in! Again!:
00:03:40 Birthday
00:04:35 188 Day Earthquake Cycle totally off
00:06:20 Lobby Day plus arguing on the internet
00:21:57 Interview Amanda Knief
00:31:39 Reason Rally Intro
00:35:18 Interview Jehovah Phineas (Big Cross Guy)
00:44:00 Offensive things n stuff at The Rally
01:00:59 Interview Rob Curry (Florida atheistsofflorida.org)
01:12:40 Favorite Speakers
01:19:30 American Atheist Convention

And the dogs bojangle in the background, busking money from the june bugs that Calli brings inside because she has decided they need a nice home.


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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Question about the TSA funding and current politics

As PZ Myers pointed out on his blog Pharyngula, there is a debate going on at "The Economist" on whetehr the TSA and airport security.

My question is this: given the current obsession with privatizing everything under the sun, shouldn't airport security be privatized? After all, why should I, who fly very little, have my tax dollars go to something which I hardly ever use. I am being only a little bit facetious here, but the argument can be made that airlines should pass on the cost of the TSA screenings to those people using their service, and not to the great majority of citizens who do not. Sounds a little bit like the health care debate except that everybody at some point will use health care, but not everybody will use an airplane.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Episode 050 knows it's about to shake rattle and roll and glide but through the magic of movies


This Week we skypoe it in!:
00:02:00 Birthday
00:08:05 188 Days between major earthquakes?
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread820089/pg1
rebuttal by potholer54
http://youtu.be/sFnOf0-FtF0
00:28:40 Psychic ability study and the people behind it
00:49:40 Humanbirdwings.net videos
http://humanbirdwings.com/
01:04:90 Lightning Round
Relative size of things
http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white
Killed for being atheist
http://www.examiner.com/humanist-in-national/soldier-shot-and-killed-for-being-an-atheist
Urns of St. Albans
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17366284
NCSE and Tennessee
http://ncse.com/news/2012/03/monkey-bill-passes-tennessee-senate-007264
FAU student gets rowdy
http://upressonline.com/2012/03/fau-student-threatens-to-kill-professor-and-classmates/
Sex and the gym
http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/19/10759818-no-sex-necessary-women-have-orgasms-at-the-gym-study-shows
Reason Rally 24Mar2012
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And many dogs make their presence known but defer to the sounds of Donna's air conditioner to make their points.


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Friday, March 16, 2012

Episode 049 with Teacher Mike tag local business establishments with anti STAAR slogans.


This Week:
00:01:30 Pi Day Birthdays
00:07:19 Reason Rally is 24Mar2012 - watch for tweets and FB page posts to meetup with us if you want. Discussion of secular vs atheist and the rally
00:17:57 Comics and social commentary
00:20:13 Donna on Prehistorical graffiti
00:33:58 Texas' new testing standard STAAR with Teacher Mike
00:44:51 Kegel Excercises for men
00:48:00 Song Writing for March! Gary's Song o' t'month intro
00:55:14 Music writing discussion
01:06:19 Greg's song discussion

...and the dogs surf teh internets in teh background, leaving nasty troll messages on random websites they find deserving or undeserving of such behavior.

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Party on a Saturday Night Lyrics:
I felt it when we started that this party was a real good time
I could tell by your expression that I’d have to try real hard to stay in line
I knew that you were looking for a sign
In a burst of inspiration I was telling you the night would turn out fine

Through the open door the people and the music maintained a steady roar
The kegs beside the pool refilling mugs of drunks clamoring for more
We’d never had so many guests before
The parking situation blocked the streets two miles to the store

Just a party on a Saturday night
All our friends pitching in to help the evening go right
Carried on until the next afternoon
It’s too long to be host I hope they’re leaving soon

Broken bottles on the porch plastic bags strewn in the lawn
People crashed out in the kitchen on the counters with their heads in bras
Don’t worry ‘bout the group back in the bathroom in the backroom with a cause
You left before the clock showed two
You left me here with all this work to do

I felt it when we started that this party could go on for evermore
When you quickly changed expression I could hear the police knocking at the door
Everyone was quickly reassured
Now I know the reason for the moat around the Castle Kerrymuir

Just a party on the next Sunday night
All our friends sleeping in avoiding the light
It continued til we ran out of brew
With more on the way they won’t be leaving soon
I said there’s more on the way so don’t be leaving soon
It’s too long to be host this weekend rendezvous
"It's All You" Lyrics

Celebrate Saint Patty’s
Only with the whiskey
The only way to party
Is with Bacchus bounty
But who wants a drunk
To come to their to-do
The balls to have a ball
It all comes down to you.

The muse calls you to drink
And fuel your gifted think
The talent for a line
Flows from that red wine
The pen don’t make the art
Or the corkscrew
The Art to making art
It all comes down to you

[INSTRUMENTAL - “Whiskey Before Breakfast” (Traditional)]

You gotta have the booze
To light your lady’s fuse.
A shot of moonshiney
To spank your honey's hiney.
The hooch don’t make you hot
Or get you past taboo
The way to be GGG
It all comes down to you.

Only with some spirit
Can you loose the corset
No fun at the fair
Repunzel let your hair.
Fairy tales are best
When the hero's true
The short of the story
It all comes down to you.

[INSTRUMENTAL - “Whiskey Before Breakfast” (Traditional)]

Now you’ve had enough.
Of wine, hooch, and stuff
Landed in A.A.
They tell you pray and pray.
But no higher power
Will help you breakthrough
Strength to get past the sauce
It all comes down to you.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Episode 048 woos it's way into your warm, primate heart

..with DANCE music!


This Week:
00:02:05 Birthdays
00:06:10 Raw milk and solar flares and the ISS sees San Antonio flashing them
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0307/Two-powerful-X-class-flares-erupt-on-sun-video
00:12:30 Atheist billboard vandalized
00:29:20 Primate Sexy Time!
00:29:40 Bonobo sex and stuff
00:57:20 Lightning Round
Tornado prediction
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=large-dangerous-tornado-outbreak-forecast-friday

Parliament on gay weddings
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17221312

Beards
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/03/06/beards-get-respect-but-not-women-study-finds/

Sleep
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

Tortilla Jesus
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Jesus-spotted-on-tortilla-during-Ash-Wednesday/QsrBBj-vNkaWMQQEq0qN4Q.cspx

Witch hunter trial
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17255470

And the dogs, not having opposabel thumbs or prehensile tails, decide to stay away from the proceddings, except to give occassional distant encouragement.

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Greg shows an example diagram from the beard study as mentioned in the Lightning Round



Thursday, March 1, 2012

Episode 047 offers guest Doctor Allison a glass of fresh wholesome milk straight from the cows teats


This Week:
00:01:00 Skeptical Birthday: Hertz
00:05:15 Joshua, TX ISD vs Freedom From Religion Foundation (Poll Is Closed now)
http://www.joshuastar.net/ci_20019956
00:09:37 Beware IRS scam
00:12:45 Raw Milk versus Pastuerized milk
Some the websites mentioned
www.cheeseslave.com/top-ten-reasons-to-drink-raw-milk/
www.globalhealingcenter.com
www.rawmilk.org
www.rawmilk.com
www.milkfacts.info
www.fda.gov (search raw milk)

01:08:50 Lightning Round
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/26/dogma-overturned-women-can-produce-new-eggs-video/

http://www.livescience.com/18602-horny-man-rock-carving-giant-phallus.html

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/02/24/woman-claiming-to-be-psychic-sentenced-to-5-years/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120228102013.htm

http://newsok.com/scientists-identify-found-objects/article/3653136

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/feb/22/simon-singh-british-chiropractic-association

And the dogs attempt to decipher Heiroglyphic anagramitical jokes found inside bottle tops from ancient Egypt.


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