ORly Radio Show 40 - No Religion Required

ORly Radio Show 40 for Friday January 9th, 2015 - No Religion Required

Hosts: Andy & the Usual Suspects: David and Don!!! Special Guest - No Religion Required
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Project Achieved Commercial Operation and State and federal regulators are overseeing a two-year study of the facility's effects on birds.
URLs: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=121544&p=irol-newsArticleNRG&ID=1899656
URLs:http://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-largest-solar-plant-started-creating-electr-1521998493 URLs:http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304703804579379230641329484

Item:Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Thinks His New Stirling Engine Will Get You Off The Grid For Under $10K
URLs:http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2014/07/02/dean-kamen-thinks-his-new-stirling-engine-could-power-the-world/

Item: Drones : Too many missions and too few pilots are threatening the ‘readiness and combat capability’ of America’s unmanned Air Force, according to an internal memo.
URLs: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/04/exclusive-u-s-drone-fleet-at-breaking-point-air-force-says.html

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: Broke Guy Offers Nikes in Lieu of Bail, Chill Judge Says "OK"

URLs: http://gawker.com/broke-guy-offers-nikes-in-lieu-of-bail-chill-judge-say-1677405562
Item: Bohner wins third Speaker of the House position - Makes dissenters pay.
URLs: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/boehner-allies-out-for-revenge-114007.html

Item: Masked gunmen wielding Kalashnikovs and a rocket launcher killed at least 12 people and injured 10 more at the Paris offices of satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday before escaping.
URLs: http://gawker.com/gunmen-kill-12-in-shooting-at-paris-satirical-newspaper-1677943812
URLs:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/07/charlie-hebdo-satire-intimidation-analysis
URLS: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/09/charlie-hebdo-suspects-killed_n_6439396.html

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: At 11:50 a.m. ET on Jan. 2, the dollar index was trading at 90.94. To make a long story short for those of us who don’t have a degree in economics, this is the highest level the dollar has traded at since March 2006. THANKS OBAMA!!
URLs: http://reverbpress.com/politics/u-s-dollar-reaches-highest-value-in-9-years/

Item: 4 Things That Were Supposed To Happen By 2015 Because Obama Was Reelected
URLs: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/01/01/3607416/4-things-2015-obama-reelected/

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: New Bill Would Make Wearing Hoodies A Crime
URLs: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/03/3607687/oklahoma-hoodie-ban/
Item: The oldest time capsule discovered in the country (1795) was opened Tuesday in Boston
URLs: http://abcnews.go.com/US/oldest-us-time-capsule-opened-today/story?id=28025479
URLs: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/after-220-years-secrets-of-paul-revere-and-sam-adams-time-capsule-revealed/

Oh, Florida...

ITEM: Phoebe Jonchuck Killed by her father John Jonchuck Jr.
He pulled her from his car and tossed her off a bridge 62’ to Tampa Bay.. .
URLS: http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/27793264/deputies-john-jonchuck-had-history-of-domestic-issuesd
URLS:http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/ex-man-accused-throwing-child-bridge-says-hes-jeky/njj5w/

Item: A Florida dad taught parents in the state last week that it's fine to spank your kids, as long as you call the cops to oversee it
URLs: http://gawker.com/dad-calls-cops-to-watch-him-spank-12-year-old-daughter-1677493594

Item: Disney cruise officials say 4-month-old was too young, forced family off ship
URLs: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-family-forced-off-disney-cruise-ship-story.html

Item: Guy Trashes "Spiritual" Girlfriend's Car After Granny Dildo Sex Prophecy
URLs: http://gawker.com/guy-trashes-spiritual-girlfriends-car-after-granny-di-1677076809

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: https://www.readingrainbow.com/
David’s: Misfit Flash Activity Tracker - http://www.amazon.com/Misfit-Flash-Fitness-Sleep-Monitor/dp/B00NIU9YG0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420857068&sr=8-1&keywords=misfit+flash
Don’s: http://www.businessinsider.com/wind-turbines-that-look-like-trees-2015-1

Bobby and Ms. Ashley from No Religion Required: http://noreligionrequired.com/  @noreligionreq  @ms_ashleynrr  facebook.com/noreligionreq  www.patreon.com/noreligionrequired  REASON CON http://reasonnc.com/

ORly Radio Show 39 - A Dish Network Best Served Cold

ORly Radio Show 39 for Friday January 2nd, 2015! - A Dish Network Best Served Cold

Hosts: Andy & the Usual Suspects: Mike and Don!!!
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: The Pentagon’s newest stealth jet, the nearly $400 billion Joint Strike Fighter, won’t be able to fire its gun during operational missions until 2019, three to four years after it becomes operational.

Even though the Joint Strike Fighter, or F-35, is supposed to join frontline U.S. Marine Corps fighter squadrons next year and Air Force units in 2016, the jet’s software does not yet have the ability to shoot its 25mm cannon.

URLs: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/31/new-u-s-stealth-jet-can-t-fire-its-gun-until-2019.html
Item: The FDA plans to allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood, but only if they have abstained from gay sex for a year, ending the lifetime ban enacted in 1983.
URLs: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-reconsiders-ban-gays-donating-blood-n260311

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: Pope issues statements on Climate Change    

URLs: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/pope-to-issue-2015-edict-on-climate-change-guaranteed-to-anger-deniers/

And the angry deniers: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/01/02/how-fox-news-covered-pope-francis-action-on-cli/201994
Item: Ex Pastor Ryan Bell’s Year without God experiment ends. Label: weak atheist.

URLs: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/yearwithoutgod/

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: The NYPD thows a fit, shows they are less necessary than they would like.

URLs: http://nypost.com/2014/12/29/arrests-plummet-following-execution-of-two-cops/
http://filmingcops.com/policing-comes-to-a-stop-in-new-york-people-get-along-peacefully-and-society-continues/

Item: UN Security Council failed Tuesday to adopt a resolution on Palestinian statehood that was strongly opposed by the United States. US now being painted an enemy of Palestine.

URLs: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/un-security-council-rejects-resolution-on-palestinian-statehood/

http://rt.com/news/219099-palestine-un-statehood-us/
Palestine then signed the ICC (International Criminal Court) Rome Charter to make it possible to try Israeli war crimes.
http://rt.com/news/218911-palestine-next-steps-bid/

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: GITMO NO GO POTUS P.O.ed
URLs: http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/20/obama-rips-congress-violating-constitution-blocking-closing-gitmo.html
Item: Fox News: Dish Dropped them, Hashtags hate them, and their misogyny is off the chart.
URLs:  http://fortune.com/2014/12/22/dish-fox-contract-dispute/

http://www.cnet.com/news/fox-news-creates-new-years-hashtag-gets-old-old-problems/ #OverIt2014

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/listen-up-ladies-fox-news-kicks-off-new-year-with-absurdly-sexist-advice-for-catering-to-your-man/

Oh, Florida...

Item: Florida to allow marriage equality, county clerks throw fit.
URLs: http://m.local10.com/news/breaking-news-federal-judge-says-all-counties-must-issue-gay-marriage-licenses/30490052
Item: Florida man charged with beheading mother because she wouldn’t stop ‘nagging’ him
URLs:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/florida-man-charged-with-beheading-mother-because-she-wouldnt-stop-nagging-him/

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Mike’s: A very Scary Solstice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Scary_Solstice

ORly Radio Show 38 - The ER wasn’t bad on Christmas

ORly Radio Show 38 for Friday December 26th, 2014 - The ER wasn’t bad on Christmas.

Host: Andy Cowen.
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

Youtube: http://youtu.be/KQlVFXdeslM

Errata From Last Week:  The High Court has ruled that doctors can switch off life support to a brain dead mother of two who is 18 weeks pregnant.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/my-daughter-is-dead-i-just-want-her-to-be-put-to-rest-30860624.html

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/doctors-told-they-can-withdraw-life-support-for-clinically-dead-pregnant-woman-30863340.html

Science / Technology / Politics

Item:  Today a group claiming affiliation with the loose hacker collective Anonymous released a document containing approximately 13,000 username-and-password combinations along with credit card numbers and expiration dates. Xbox Live, the Sony Playstation Network, Origin, Dell, Twitch.tv, Walmart, Amazon, Shutterstock, and Hulu Plus accounts Should all be wary and lots of porn sites. URLs: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/anonymous-lulzxmas-passwords-credit-cards/
Item: We Found a New and Cheaper Way to Get to Mars - Mathematicians Francesco Topputo and Edward Belbruno have calculated a path that actually takes advantage of the Mars' own motion. The strategy is called ballistic capture, as opposed to what we now use, the Hohmann transfer. Downside: The journey will take longer, adding several months to the already six-month haul. For human space travelers, that would take a toll
URLs: http://gizmodo.com/we-found-a-new-and-cheaper-way-to-get-to-mars-1674591160

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: “Put Wings On Pigs” Facebook quote lands Massachusetts’ Charlie Dirosa in jail after two NYPD officers were killed Saturday afternoon. Chicopee police is comparing the post to yelling fire in a crowded theater and claiming the post “scared a lot of the guys.” The police have filed a criminal complaint and Dirosa will have to appear in court for “threatening to commit a crime.”

URLs: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/begins-massachusetts-man-charged-word-facebook-post/
Item: Court Rules Orangutan “Sandra” Held In Argentina Zoo Is 'Non-Human Person' And Can Be Freed Interesting note, Orangutan is a word from the Malay and Indonesian languages that means "forest man."
URLs:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/21/orangutan-argentina_n_6363582.html

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: A white man who pleaded guilty to six robberies in Ohio used a black mask so lifelike that police initially arrested a black man for one of the crimes. He faces up to 35 years in prison at his January 7 sentencing. He was turned in by his girlfriend.

URLs: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334726/Conrad-Zdzierak-white-man-pleads-guilty-wearing-black-man-disguise-robberies.html
Item: The United States helped a Cuban spy imprisoned in California artificially inseminate his wife back in Cuba, a goodwill gesture while Washington and Havana were engaged in secret talks on restoring diplomatic ties, U.S. officials said on Monday. Now Gerardo Hernandez and his wife, Adriana Perez, are expecting his baby in two weeks, even though he was locked up for 16 years without conjugal visits. It will be a girl called Gema, Cuban official media said.
URLs:https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/12/23/imprisoned-cuban-spy-impregnates-his-wife-with-u-s-help/

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: Couple near death after being trapped in keyless car, didn't think to open it manually.
New Zealand couple Mollieanne and Brian Smith, who nearly fell prey to their cold, unfeeling Mazda 3 hatchback.

The couple found themselves inside their new "keyless" car in their garage on November 5th, and without their transponder, believed there was no way to get themselves out.  the car's victims were discovered by neighbors at 7:45 am, 13 hours since they first were trapped, Mrs. Smith had become unconscious, and Mr. Smith was struggling for air. The wife spent three days in a hospital recovering from her robotic attack. Doctors said if they had spent even another 30 minutes inside that car, they would have died.

They are both fine now, though definitely changed from the experience. And they have learned that "the manual lock was the same as the inside door handle on many other vehicles."

URLs: http://happyplace.someecards.com/trapped/couple-near-death-after-being-trapped-in-keyless-car-didnt-think-to-open-it-manually/
Item: Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled in an Oakland, California court on Tuesday that Facebook must face a class action lawsuit for violating its users’ privacy by scanning private messages so that it could gather data for targeted advertising. The suit seeks damages of up to $10,000 to be paid out per user, and also for Facebook to stop scanning messages from here on out.

URLs: http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2014/12/26/facebook-hit-class-action-lawsuit-private-message-scanning/

ORly Radio Show 37 - #Hack the planet!

ORly Radio Show 37 for Friday December 19th, 2014 - #Hack the planet!

Hosts: Andy & the Usual Suspects: Mike and David!!!
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

Errata From Last Week: The 525-page report chock full of bureaucratic language, was the redacted version of a 6,200+ page report. So if rectal feeding is what they are willing to divulge… imagine what the didn’t want you to see.
Pope Francis did not actually say anything nice about dogs going to heaven, though we suspect he still believes it.  The story was made up and mismashed together from different blogger stories covering his speech.

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: Sony Hacks

URLs: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2014/12/19/sony-the-interview-hackers-gop/20635449/

URLs: http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/12/20/us-sony-cybersecurity-usa-idINKBN0JX1MH20141220
Item: ICANN HACKED: Intruders poke around global DNS innards.
URLs: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/17/icann_hacked_admin_access_to_zone_files/

Item: Google News Spain to close in response to story links 'tax'

URLs: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/11/google-news-spain-to-close-in-response-to-tax-on-story-links
Item: Curiosity Rover Finds Methane on Mars: What It Could Mean for Life
Another study published in Science today also details another exciting Curiosity find on Mars. Using a sample of clay, scientists have measured the hydrogen in the Martian atmosphere about 3 billion to 3.7 billion years ago. The new finding could help pin down when the Red Planet lost its liquid surface water.

URLs: http://m.space.com/28019-mars-methane-disovery-curiosity-rover.html
Item: Les Baugh made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control two of the Laboratory’s Modular Prosthetic Limbs.
URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOncx2jU0Q&feature=youtu.be

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: CLINICALLY BRAIN-DEAD PREGNANT WOMAN BEING KEPT ALIVE TO SAVE THE BABY -- AGAINST PARENTS' WISHES

URLs: http://abc7chicago.com/442621/

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: CUBA

URLs: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/obama-announces-dramatic-shift-uscuba-policy
Item: Russia Economy in freefall - Western sanctions, coupled with falling global oil prices, have hurt Russia's economy.
URLs: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30547775

Oh, Florida...

Item: Florida man wanders around setting cars and dumpsters on FIRE!

URLs: http://www.wesh.com/news/deputies-man-set-fire-to-cars-dumpsters-marion-county/30315192

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Bill Nye Explains evolution using Emoji http://gizmodo.com/bill-nye-uses-emoji-to-perfectly-explain-evolution-1670690085

Mike’s: Phantom of the Opera and the NEW http://www.drphillipscenter.org/  : http://www.thephantomoftheopera.com/ustour/people/creative/cameron-mackintosh/