ORly Radio Show 51 - A Lesson in Political Science

ORly Radio Show 51 for Friday March 27th, 2015 - A Lesson in Political Science

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

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: Scientists managed to cut out the HIV virus using a DNS snipping enzyme called CAS9
URLs: http://guff.com/glt-scientists-delete-hiv/20
Item: Why Are So Many People Nearsighted?
URLs: http://www.popsci.com/why-are-so-many-people-nearsighted

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: Not even Tatooine is off limits to Islamic State
URLs: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/star-wars-tatooine-isis-tunisia/
Item: Growing Numbers Seek Faith Based alternatives to the Affordable Care Act. What is that about?
URLs: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/18/growing-numbers-seek-faith-based-alternative-to-obamacare/

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: Drive from London, England to New York, New York by way of… Moscow, Russia and Nome, Alaska?  
URLs: http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/24/travel/trans-siberian-road/index.html
Item: Oregon will be the first state to automatically register voters
URLs: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/17/8231387/oregon-voter-registration-automatic

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: Super Troopers 2, it’s going to be a thing, and it’s crowdsourced.
URLs: http://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/2015/03/super-troopers-2-has-met-its-crowdfunding-goal-in-one-day/
Item: Ted Cruz compares himself to Galileo much to the chagrin of his history teachers, who likely failed him.
URLs: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0327/Ted-Cruz-compares-himself-to-Galileo-new-language-for-climate-change-skeptics

Oh, Florida...

Item: Enterprising pilot draws 20-mile penis over Florida on Flightradar
URLs: http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/3/13/8207583/pilot-draws-giant-penis-flight-radar-florida
Item: Florida man let’s girlfriend drive patrol car to hooters causing questions about validity of maximum IQ for police.
URLs: http://www.news4jax.com/news/jso-officer-let-woman-drive-patrol-car-hooters/31935882
URLs: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/court-police-departments-refuse-hire-smart/

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Winbook TW700 Tablet - Windows 8.1 with full-size USB port, IPS Display, and one year of FREE Microsoft Office 365 http://ow.ly/KUgRU
David’s: Freedom From Religion Foundation. Let’s face it, it’s the guys thumping bibles who are being total dicks these day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7INIhD9P0Pw 800-335-4021 www.ffrf.org

Mike’s: www.stanleyparable.com http://store.steampowered.com/app/221910/

ORly Radio Show 50 - Budget Smacktacular

ORly Radio Show 50 for Friday March 20th, 2015 - Budget Smacktacular

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

Errata From Last Week: Mike and Jess are now wedded! I didn’t even cough on them once during the ceremony. WIN!

Top Story: The GOP Budget. What have they wrought on the nation?

(Reuters) http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/17/us-usa-budget-republicans-idUSKBN0MD1KU20150317  - U.S. House Republicans on Tuesday proposed higher defense spending and deep cuts to social services including healthcare for the poor in an aggressive new budget plan that seeks to eliminate deficits by 2024. The blueprint from House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, which has almost no chance of becoming law, prescribes $5.468 trillion in spending cuts and interest savings over 10 years compared to current policies. The document assumes $2 trillion in 10-year savings from full repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the signature healthcare reform law that President Barack Obama has vowed to defend.
Price's plan would cut $913 billion in Medicaid spending by shifting it to a grant program to allow states to tailor the healthcare program for the poor. It would devolve other programs to states through grants, including food stamps and transportation funding. Pell grants for college tuition would also shrink.
Price's plan could struggle to gain the support of deeply divided House Republicans. It seeks to skirt "sequester" spending caps, nominally keeping them in place to please deficit hawks while boosting military spending by adding nearly $40 billion to an off-budget war funding account.
Like previous Republican budgets, Price's plan contains no tax increases. It assumes Congress will enact revenue-neutral reforms to the tax code to reduce rates while ending many tax breaks. But it leaves the details for later.
Price said tax reform and other proposals, including a roll-back of financial regulations enacted in 2010, would unleash stronger economic growth that will help slash deficits by more than $1 trillion through 2025.
While these growth assumptions are baked into Price's budget numbers, they have not been confirmed by the Congressional Budget Office.
(Reporting by David Lawder, Roberta Rampton; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh, Susan Heavey and Tom Brown)

"I was pretty impressed with the creativity here -- I won't call it political gymnastics, but it certainly could be called parliamentary contortionism," said Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), who considers himself both a defense and deficit hawk, and is likely to back the budget. 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/18/bernie-sanders-budget_n_6897566.html

Bernie Sanders Weighs in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB1efQXFThk

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function
URLs: http://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimer-s-treatment-fully-restores-memory-function
Item: Researchers may have solved origin-of-life conundrum
URLs:http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/03/researchers-may-have-solved-origin-life-conundrum

Common origins of RNA, protein and lipid precursors in a cyanosulfidic protometabolism
http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nchem.2202.html

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: San Francisco Saint Mary’s Cathedral Drenches Homeless With Water To Keep Them Away
URLs: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/san-francisco-catholic-church-installs-watering-system-to-drench-homeless-people-as-they-sleep/ http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/03/18/homeless-saint-marys-cathedral-archdiocese-san-francisco-intentionally-drenched-water-sleeping/
Item: Utah passed historic legislation against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination
URLs: http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/utah-passes-historic-legislation-against-19434/

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: Obama orders federal agencies to cut carbon emissions 40% within 10 years
URLs: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/19/8257249/obama-federal-greenhouse-cuts
Item: Oklahoma House passes bill restricting marriage to people of faith
URLs: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2015/03/oklahoma-house-passes-bill-restricting-marriage-to-people-of-faith/

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: Someone On a British Airways Plane Took a Shit So Bad That It Had to Turn Around and Come Back Again
URLs: http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/someone-did-a-shit-so-bad-a-british-airways-flight-had-to-turn-around-and-land-475

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/artana/tesla-vs-edison
Don’s: Raspberry Pi 2

ORly Radio Show 49 - A Play On Nerds

ORly Radio Show 49 for Wednesday March 11h, 2015 - A Play On Nerds

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

Special Guests: Jarman Day-Bohn and Steve Bauman from A Play On Nerds Podcast

We’ll talk about the origin of their show and the evolution of their hilarious segments over 35 episodes. Then we will get them to step into our world of outrage politics.

Muppets, Copycat Cinema, Trivia, Brooklyn Band or Smut Search, Movie Trailer Reviews (Patent Pending all Rights Reserved), What’s the Deal with Star Trek?

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: VOX: 7 Scary Facts About Antibiotic Resistant “Superbugs” - We could be doomed and that’s not hyperbole.
URLs: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/10/8178879/what-is-antibiotic-resistance
Item: Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links
URLs: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530102.600-google-wants-to-rank-websites-based-on-facts-not-links.html

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: NY elementary school bans homework, tells students to spend time on other pursuits
URLs: http://kdvr.com/2015/03/05/parents-outraged-after-school-bans-homework-tells-students-to-spend-time-on-other-pursuits/
Item: Isis: Muslim preacher calls for demolition of pyramids and the Sphinx of Giza
URLs: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-muslim-preacher-calls-demolition-pyramids-sphinx-giza-1491363

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: Conservatives Now Say They Hate Spock After Obama Praises Character
URLs: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/06/cant-make-this-up-conservatives-now-say-they-hate-spock-after-obama-praises-character/
Item: 47 of 54 US Senators play a dangerous game of chicken with Iran and the POTUS with a condescending letter and tweets to the Iranian leadership.
McCain's breathtaking defense of signing the Iran letter: "I sign lots of letters"
URLs: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/10/8182063/tom-cottons-controversial-letter-to-iran-explained
http://news.yahoo.com/150-000-sign-treason-petition-us-republican-letter-195011270.html
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/republican-unity-shatters-after-backlash-to-iran-letter/
Just being Cheeky?
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-scrambles-the-wake-sabotage-fiasco

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: Play Cards Against Humanity Online With Anyone For Free
URLs: http://toyland.gizmodo.com/you-can-now-play-cards-against-humanity-online-with-any-1690772752
Item: Georgia trash man gets 30 days in jail for 5 a.m. pick up
URLs: http://news.yahoo.com/let-sleep-georgia-trash-man-gets-30-days-213758415.html

Oh, Florida...

Item: Florida, officials ban term 'climate change' - “Deputy General Counsel Larry Morgan was giving us a briefing on what to expect with the new secretary,” Byrd recalled. Morgan gave them “a warning to beware of the words global warming, climate change and sea-level rise, and advised us not to use those words in particular.” In a February press conference, Scott unveiled $106 million in his proposed budget to deal with the effects of rising oceans. But $50 million of that is for a sewage plant in the Keys, and $25 million is for beach restoration, which critics say is hardly a comprehensive plan to protect homes, roads and infrastructure.|
URLs: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article12983720.html
http://fcir.org/2015/03/08/in-florida-officials-ban-term-climate-change/
Item: An apartment complex near Disney has voided its renter lease agreement that called for tenants to pay $10,000 fines for posting negative reviews on social media.
URLs: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-apartment-reviews-negative-20150310-story.html

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Kickstarter: Rubber Band Machine Gun! It Arrived. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/11447722/rubber-band-machine-gun-0 
Mike’s: Sid Meier’s Starships http://store.steampowered.com/app/282210/
Jess: #HeForShe / heforshe.org / Emma Watson is a goddess
Jarman: Audio Book: Storm on the Horizon: The Zone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glitzy Gamers Twitch Channel - A Play On Nerds - Skill Focus: Burlesque

ORly Radio Show 48 - I Have Seen The Light!

ORly Radio Show 48 for Friday March 6th, 2015 - I Have Seen The Light

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

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: Let there be light, as a particle and a wave!
URLs: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-particle.html
Item:Why is Indian food so delicious? SCIENCE!
URLs: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/03/a-scientific-explanation-of-what-makes-indian-food-so-delicious/
Item: The famous line from The Simpsons might be accurate - If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you ever cared about. Herbivores cheating on their diets.
URLs: http://io9.com/field-cameras-catch-deer-eating-birds-wait-why-do-deer-1689440870
Item: Of Course Comcast Subscribers Can’t Stream HBO Go On The PS4… Of. Course.
URLs: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/06/of-course-comcast-subscribers-cant-stream-hbo-go-on-the-ps4/#Bp0wUX:YAzH
Item: Rats weren’t to blame for the black death. Gerbils implicated! Hamsters point and laugh.
URLs: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/24/after-8-centuries-rats-exonerated-in-spread-of-black-death-gerbils-implicated/

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: 2 Ferguson police officers quit; court clerk fired after Justice report
URLs: http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/us/ferguson-justice-department-report-fallout/
Item: Republican Congressman Suggests Using Wolves to Deal with Homeless People
URLs: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/republican-congressman-suggests-using-wolves-deal-homeless-people-video/

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: Man attacks US ambassador to S Korea with Knife. Has prior rap sheet of attacking ambassadors.
URLs: http://www.dawn.com/news/1167816/south-korea-shocked-and-shamed-by-attack-on-us-ambassador
Item: Former Israeli spy chief rejects parts of Netanyahu speech.
URLs: http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article12872711.html

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: Iraqi Military Making Headway in Retaking Own Country from ISIS.
URLs: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31773357
Item: The screams of the children seemed to strengthen the creature!
URLs: http://www.buzzfeed.com/alivelez/a-giant-octopus-tried-to-escape-from-the-seattle-aquarium-so

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Revelation Space, and Book 2 Chasm City (Revelation Space)
David’s: http://www.budgetbytes.com/