ORly Radio Show 39 - A Dish Network Best Served Cold

January 3, 2015

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 36 - Breaking down the #AngryAtheist

December 12, 2014

ORly Radio Show 36 for Friday December 12th, Breaking down the #AngryAtheist.

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

Hangout Event: https://plus.google.com/events/clqphibvn23912vt38oihd8fggs

Errata From Last Week: #WeCantBreath was of course a purposeful misspelling. It was the trending hashtag, and shortly the proper spelled #WeCantBreathe, was also trending. You should be able to find more than you want to find under both spellings.
Followup - I was unable to get to a story I wanted to cover last week. Please head over to http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-american-justice-system-is-not-broken-1666445407 to read more about what I was on about.

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Vaginas
URLs: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-vaginas
Item: Rosetta discovers water on comet 67p like nothing on Earth
URLs: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/10/water-comet-67p-earth-rosetta

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: Governments turn up the heat on atheists “"the overwhelming majority of countries fail to respect the rights of atheists and freethinkers" as set out in U.N. treaties, adding that 13 states, all of them Muslim, had made apostasy or blasphemy against religion a capital offense.”
URLs: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/10/us-religion-atheists-idUSKBN0JO00L20141210

Item: “Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence committee finally released its long-awaited report on the CIA's use of torture on detainees. The report deserves to be shared far and wide—but it's a 525-page report chock full of bureaucratic language. Boring! To make it more sharable, we've compiled a set of memes that totally illustrates some of the report's most important and eye-catching takeaways.”
URLs: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/cia-torture-report-memes/?fb=dd

Item: Dogs in Heaven? Pope Francis Leaves Pearly Gates Open “Trying to console a distraught little boy whose dog had died, Francis told him in a recent public appearance on St. Peter’s Square, “Paradise is open to all of God’s creatures.”
URLs: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/world/europe/dogs-in-heaven-pope-leaves-pearly-gate-open-.html

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Gets A Big Promotion In The Senate to ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee.
URLs: http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/12/republican-nightmares-true-bernie-sanders-big-promotion-senate.html

Item: Shutdown averted following late-night drama - “The full roll call on last night’s vote is online here. Note that 67 House Republican broke ranks and opposed the package negotiated and endorsed by their own chamber’s leaders – that’s a little more than a fourth of the caucus – which would have been enough to kill the legislation were it not for the 57 House Democrats who rebuffed their leaders and backed the bill.”
URLs: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/shutdown-averted-following-late-night-drama

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: In the 12 days leading up to Christmas Eve, new Harry Potter content will be released daily on the site https://www.pottermore.com
URLs: http://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/twelve-days-of-potter

Item: Pirate Bay was taken offline, officially. Unofficially, it’s still here.
URLs: REDACTED You know how to get there….

Oh, Florida...

Item: Florida Man Arrested For Drunken Rampage Through Grocery Store on Motorized Shopping Cart
URLs: http://offthebeat.blogs.tcpalm.com/2014/12/11/1019/

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: What to do when your Facebook friend posts something offensive: a flowchart http://www.vox.com/2014/12/12/7376601/facebook-offensive-post
AND http://xchat.org/ for access to our IRC hosted at GeekShed.net #orlyradio
Don’s: Caruva Horchata Booze!