ORLY-EP0107B - Judge Cruz, Smart Guns, Contested Convention, and Bigotry

ORLY-EP0107B - Judge Cruz, Smart Guns, Contested Convention, and Bigotry

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #107b for Friday April 29th, 2016 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Michael Robinson, Stephen Griffith, and Daniel Atherton.

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Second Half:

This week in SCOTUS

  1. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/277650-top-republican-floats-cruz-as-supreme-court-pick

Good Ideas:

  1. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/obama-announces-new-steps-to-curb-gun-violence/

  2. https://johnlaurits.com/2016/04/28/this-is-what-will-happen-at-the-democratic-convention/

Bad Ideas:

  1. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/04/27/tennessee_gov_signs_law_allowing_therapists_to_refuse_treatment_to_lgbtq.html

  2. http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/27/pee-home-alabama-city-bans-trans-people-using-public-bathrooms/

  3. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/27/oral-sex-rape-ruling-tulsa-oklahoma-alcohol-consent

Personal Picks:

Andy’s:   BlueStacks Desktop Android Emulator http://www.bluestacks.com/

Stephen’s:  The Court and The Cross: The Religious Right’s Crusade to Reshape the Supreme Court  http://www.amazon.com/The-Court-Cross-Religious-Crusade/dp/0807044253  

Daniel’s:  http://blog.timesunion.com/boardgames/2016/04/27/international-tabletop-day-2016/

Acknowledgements:

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

ORly Radio Show 11 - Tangent Rape

ORly Radio Episode 11 for Friday June 20th, 2014

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

Science / Technology

Item 1: Russian Physicists Launch Campaign to Rebuild Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower and Power the World

URL:http://inhabitat.com/russian-physicists-launch-campaign-to-rebuild-teslas-wardenclyffe-tower-and-power-the-world/

URL:http://globalenergytransmission.com/index.php/en/introduction

Item 2: Terminator-Style Liquid metal reconnects nerves.

URL: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25510-terminatorstyle-liquid-metal-connects-severed-nerves.html#.U6S-NfldUUd

Item 3: Amazon enters the smart phone war, will it fly or burn? Kindle Fire Phone.

URL: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2459701,00.asp

Humanities

Item 1: Rape victims say Bob Jones University told them to repent

URL: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/6/18/bob-jones-universitysexualabuse.html

Abstract: Two years after her rape by her supervisor at her summer job (age 19), she reported the abuse to the dean of students at her college (BJU - Bob Jones University - The Fortress of Faith).

“He goes, ‘Well, there’s always a sin under other sin. There’s a root sin,’” Landry remembers. “And he said, ‘We have to find the sin in your life that caused your rape.’ And I just ran."

Landry ended up dropping out of college, and didn’t tell anyone else for five years.

Item 2: Welcome to the Villages, Florida’s raunchiest retirement community.

URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2657325/Ten-women-man-black-market-Viagra-thriving-swingers-scene-Welcome-The-Villages-Florida-elderly-residents-Sex-Square-cocktail-honor-woman-68-arrested-public-sex-toyboy.html

Politics

Item 1: Glenn Beck: ‘Liberals, you were right’ on the war in Iraq

URL: http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/glenn-beck-liberals-you-were-right
URL: http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/06/17/enough-is-enough-bring-them-home-period/

Item 1.5: Iraq: The great democracy experiment crumbles before our very eyes.

URL: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/kerry-dismisses-cheneys-criticism-u-s-policy-iraq/

Item 1.6: Megyn Kelly turns on Dick Cheney. Hell temps drops by 55 degrees.
URL: http://www.inquisitr.com/1307997/megyn-kelly-rips-dick-cheney-on-iraq-piece/

TANGENTS:

Economy of the national debt
Religion... LOTS of religion. 

Entertainment/Reviews/Picks

Andy’s Pick Peter F. Hamilton’s Mindstar Rising (Greg Mandel)

Ann’s Pick: 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life By Don Piper.

David’s Pick: Catch The Lightning (The Saga of the Skolian Empire).

Don’s Pick: Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book).