Friday, May 25, 2012

Episode 059 wins and loses in love, law, and internet argumentation

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00:00:30 Intro
00:03:10 Birthdays Bob Moog, Abdul Baha
00:07:55 SpaceX successfully launches Dragon rocket to the ISS
00:10:00 Greg removes a bible from a Military POW-MIA display
00:16:09 Antivax interactions
00:17:46 POM Schroedinger's Lawsuit
00:27:17 Coffee isn't bad for you and Oscillicoccinum news
00:35:13 Primate Sexy Time: What women want survey
00:49:22 Homosexuality, psychology, and related
01:01:30 Lightning Round
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57437103-504083/former-texas-priest-guilty-of-hiring-hit-man-to-plot-murder-of-sex-abuse-accuser/

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/05/19/theres-an-openly-atheist-president-in-uruguay/

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-survives-2-400-foot-helicopter-jump-without-192536145.html

http://moneyland.time.com/2012/05/22/driving-like-a-jerk-may-cost-you-an-extra-100-per-month-in-gas/

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/18/former-navy-chaplain-insists-gay-demons-can-infect-animals/

Philosophical question: if a member of The Silience looks away from the Weeping Angels, would the angel move closer or would it forget the silence?

And the dogs appear to have a construction project going on so they hammer and saw and build...whatever it is, in spite of not having opposable thumbs.

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Friday, May 18, 2012

Episode 058 is winging it and winging it hard!


Intro:
00:02:35 Birthday Herman Webster Mudgett
00:07:55 Porn makes healthy women go blind?
00:17:42 Religion makes your brain shrink?
00:26:20 Paleo diet 
00:47:22 Rats given frustose have memory problems
00:51:32 The only gay in the Neolithic village?
00:56:20 Lesbian Catholic High School students hold their own prom
01:02:30 Lightning Round
NASA Renovating the VAB
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/ground/vabrefurbishment_prt.htm

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/how-the-professor-who-fooled-wikipedia-got-caught-by-reddit/257134/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/05/14/meet-shiri-the-freakishly-realistic-robotic-buttocks/

http://www.godhatesfags.com/schedule.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/bristol-palin-gay-marriage-_n_1506286.html

http://www.examiner.com/article/everyone-draw-mohammed-day-takes-to-twitter

And the dogs try to make suggestions about how and what to record but we humans cannot understand them because, hey, they're dogs and we do not 

comprehend their language of panting, licking, barking, and the occassional gassy emission.

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Friday, May 11, 2012

Episode 057 gaily sings of death, taxes, and condolences

This Week:
Intro:
00:02:25 Birthday Richard Howard Carter
00:05:14 White Medicine Cloud found slaughtered
00:08:00 Barack Obama endorses gay marriage...sorta kinda
00:15:55 Coalition of Reason puts up a San Antonio billboard and forms a coalition of Reasonable folk
00:31:38 What to say to non-religious folk when bad things happen
00:52:45 April Music Challenge "Death and Taxes"
00:53:54 Greg's Song: "Bunkam Comes To Town"
00:58:09 Greg song discussion
01:03:33 Gary's Song "Death and Taxes"
01:05:55 Gary song discussion
01:09:25 Next song challenge discussion
01:14:15 Lightning Round

And the dogs get off to a rousing start, taking orders via a dogernet over-air ordering system.

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Greg's Lyrics "Bunkam Comes to Town"
My name is John Bunkum. 
I hail out of London. 
My wares are desired
From palace to shire
When I come to your town
Your faith won’t let you down
I’ll feed you the facts and
Charge you no taxes.

Step right up, buy a dream Just a few Lira.
Ancient rites, new age cures All yours at cost-a.
Amulets magical Clean out your Aura.
Feeling off? Hold these stones Straighten your Chakra.
Buy a trance so you danceOver Hot Lava.
Fortunes told, read the stars Venus and Ursa.
Bottom blocked? Lax your bowel With tea of Senna.
Toxin purge wash your gut Rinse with hot Java.
Ten steps for Alchemy Gold from base meta.
Ecstasy, breath it in From my fine hookah.
Ancient rites, new age cures All yours at cost-a.

Step right up, buy a dream Just a few Drachma.
Artifacts, most holy Show off your dogma.
I’ve got a parchment piece Genuine Torah.
Lose your way? My prayer rugs Always points Mecca.
Here’s a blade, kills demons Just like the Krishna.
Saintly robes show your paunch Round like the Buddha.
Build your ark, cubit style Call yourself Noah.
Bones of saints made into Beads for your Rosa.
Buy this tome to submit Your life to Allah.
Need to clear your old soul? Here's the Pope's Rota.
Artifacts, most holy Show off your dogma.

My name is John Bunkum
I hail out of London
Some say I deceive
Maybe I believe?
My patrons think it’s real,
So I make them a deal:
They pay their wish tax,
And just lose some cash.

Step right up, buy a dream Just a few Krona.
Wonders from far and wide Brought here by Sherpa.
Finest fruit all the way From Bora Bora.
Pain cures from India Venom of Cobra.
Cure it with powder pale Just like in China.
Grecian food make yourself Strong like a Sparta.
Thousand year calendars Carved by the Maya.
Indian tapestry Live like a Rajah.
Crystals clear brought here by Vasco de Gama.
Rhino horn smuggled from Forests of Ghana
Wonders from far and wide Brought here by Sherpa.

Step right up, buy a dream Lay down your moolah.
You can land your true love Worthy of saga.
Draw the men with perfume Moths to the fya.
Learn how to swing your hips Catch him with Cha-cha.
Ask fairy Godmother Go to the gala.
Bona fide kimonos Be your man's geisha.
My herbs will levitate His “little fellah”.
Learn the words, just fourteen Win him with versa.
Mix potions to snare your Baby a da-da.
Cast a curse get rid of That bar maid Laura.
You can land your true love Worthy of saga.

My name is John Bunkum
I hail out of London
My wares are desired
From palace to shire
When I come to your town
Your faith won’t let you down
You pay your faith tax
Cause who needs the facts?

__________________________________________________________________

Gary's Lyrics to "Death and Taxes"
Death and Taxes
There are two things we all expect
Just take a minute to reflect
It won't take a giant intellect
To maintain a society
In which our freedom isn't free
They are our patriotic duty
Death and Taxes
To fight the wars and build the roads
To clean the streets when it has snowed
To keep the rivers safely flowed
Because our bodies do not last
Because we will repeat the past
Because some hate the iconoclast
Death and Taxes
We pay the price (Certified Accountancy)
We pay the price (Just for being born)
We pay the price (unless you can afford a PO box in the Cayman Islands)
We pay the price


Friday, May 4, 2012

Episode 056 in which Jordan Clipston fights The Sith or a Terrestrial near-equivalent using the Dark Arts of the Legal System

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This Week:
Intro:
00:02:30 Birthday
00:08:00 Jordan Clipston and Emily Clark http://www.facebok.com/helpreunitearielandjordan
00:42:55 Critical Thinking and Religiosity
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-religion-analytical-thinking-20120427,0,5374010.story
00:49:43 Dan Savage Keynote at the National Scholastic Press Association And Journalism Association Convention
http://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag/2012/04/christianity-is-bullshit-and-im-not-apologizing-for-saying-that/
01:11:33 Lightning Round
Joke to hijack plane gets a guy in trouble
http://news.yahoo.com/joke-hijack-plane-kill-obama-gets-utah-man-002429373.html
Blind writer and forensics
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9197585/Police-save-words-of-blind-author-who-wrote-26-pages-after-pen-ran-out.html
Breathairianism
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/swiss-women-dies-giving-water-food-thought-live-sunlight-article-1.1067359
ProPatch Titanium placebos
http://skepticwire.blogspot.com/2012/05/cant-even-give-this-stuff-awayor-can.html
Art and facial recognition
http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/5453
Pr0n vs christian malware
http://www.webpronews.com/porn-surfing-is-safer-than-browsing-religious-sites-2012-05

And the dogs keep the baddies or perceived/ alleged/ imaginary ne'er-do-wells away through liberal use of growling, barking, leaping, and generally

being a nuisance.


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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Can't even give this stuff away...or can you?


[Gary] Today's http://1saleaday.com/ deal (Time sensitive, so I am putting the description below.)
For $200 you get a box of 200 Titanium ProPatches AND either a 26" LCD screen or a Fuji 3D camera.
Now. What exactly do you think you are paying for here? A 26" LCD costs from $150 and up and the 3D camera is ~$350 online. But these guys put the ProPatch as the selling point?! Sure, it's created "by a team of athletes and scientists" but I think it's a pretty good indication that they are worthless and probably cost about ten cents to make, if they can include a "free" electronic device. It;s also amusing that the electronics doesn't appear to be able to sell by itself if the big selling point is the placebo device. Sigh.



Product Info

Take your game experience to the next level with these PROPATCH 200 Titanium Patches + a free Westinghouse 26" LCD TV or FujiFilm FinePix HD 3D 10MP Camera!

Worn by Amar’e Stoudemire and many other of the world’s best athletes, PROPATCH with Titanium is a topical titanium patch created by a team of athletes and scientists to help improve your performance - on and off the courts.

And now you can get PROPATCH with your choice of a free with purchase bonus - either a Westinghouse HD TV, or a FujiFilm FinePix digital camera. That’s a combination that can’t be beat! You’ll be able to watch the game on a crystal clear 26 inch 720p display with a room-encompassing viewing angle and stereo speakers, or capture the game forever in high resolution 3D and 2D pictures and videos.

Specs

Titanium Patches;

Condition: NEW
Packaging: Retail
Warranty: 1 Year Manufacturer
Manufacturer: PureBrands
Model: PROPATCH

Free Fuji 3D HD Camera;

Condition: NEW
Packaging: Retail
Warranty: 1 Year Manufacturer
Manufacturer: FujiFilm
Model: FinePix Real 3D W3

Westinghouse 26" LCD HDTV;

Condition: NEW
Packaging: Retail
Warranty: 1 Year Manufacturer
Manufacturer: Westinghouse
Model:CW26S3CW

PROPATCH Features Include:

Topical titanium patch
Created by a team of athletes and scientists
Made with Grade 1 ASTM F67 Titanium foil, suitable for surgical implant applications
Sweat and water-resistant
Apply directly to the skin
Can be worn for up to 10 hours
Perfect for any sport, exercise, work or travel
200-pack

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

"Help Reunite Ariel and Jordan" Update

The Skeptic Wire team has mentioned our friend Jordan's fundraising effort for his legal bills on the last few episodes (053, 054, & 055).

Jordan's still raising funds to pay for his legal challenge.  He owes the lawyer another $800 by May 19th, 2012.  Here's how close he is to meeting his overall goal.  Please help out our friend if you can.


Other updates are available at https://www.facebook.com/HelpReuniteArielAndJordan