Articles for Episode 258: Failures At Home and Abroad

Back to our regular time, we've got a bit of a doozie planned. Heading into the end of the year we see the status quo acting exactly as expected. There are things that need to be dealt with both domestically and abroad and the handling of it leaves much to be desired.

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• ‘I knew I had to help,’ cop says of charity act gone viral
• For Secretary of State, G.O.P. Pushes Old Hand
• GOP Senators More Troubled After Rice Meeting
• No 'fiscal cliff' deal without higher rates, Geithner says
• Obama Slaps States That Don't Comply With Obamacare
• Chart of the Week: Obama’s Fiscal Cliff Plan Has $4 of Tax Hikes to $1 of Cuts
• Pelosi Backs Limiting Oversight of Debt Ceiling
• OBAMA'S HISTORIC ERROR: THE IRONY OF A NOBEL LAUREATE OPPOSING PALESTINIAN UN BID
• Factbox: Egypt's draft constitution
• Yes, Romney Was the Problem

You can bet there were other articles. Here they are:

• Boehner on ‘fiscal cliff’ talks: ‘There’s a stalemate’

Articles for Episode 257: A Season of Change

Important note: For those that join us for the live recording sessions, we will be starting the recording tonight at 10:00pm Eastern instead of our usual 8:30pm.  This is a one-time change to accomodate some schedule conflicts.

Contrary to what some may say, there is plenty that will be changing on the political scene in the next four years.  This episode is going to be our conversation point for the recap of the election and where the country appears to be heading for the future.

Here are the articles on the board for this episode.  We may or may not cover them:

• Woman Calls Cops On Salvation Army Workers For Ringing Bells
• SURPRISE: PA COLLEGE SLASHES INSTRUCTORS' HOURS TO AVOID OBAMACARE
• Nanny State: Obamacare Now Regulating Pizza
• Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants
• More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before
• Obama’s National Energy Tax, a Lame Duck Surprise?
• A Physician’s New Reality: Patients Ask Me to Break the Law
• Egypt's Morsi Grants Himself Sweeping Powers
• Republicans jockey for 2016

There's more news out there as well. Here are some other articles worth linking to:

• Barbour: GOP needs “proctology exam” to explore White House election loss
• Jindal: Liking people is key to expanding GOP tent
• Threatened Wal-Mart Strike Fizzles
• One Look At This Chart, And You'll Instantly Get Why We Can't Fix The Tax Code
• Detroit may use unpaid leave to deal with cash crunch
• Jane Fonda Finally Apologizes
• MSNBC tells readers how to 'zing' conservatives at Thanksgiving dinner

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Episode 236: Poor Planning, Bad Ideas and Desperation

Well, this episode did run a bit off plan, however there was a lot of good conversation!  Instead of starting off right away with the normal flow of things, we began our show talking about the results of the Egyptian election.

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Episode 230: So Much For...

Wow, "Sprummer" (spring/summer) is here and life has gotten a lot busier around here.  My sincere apologies for those that use the website to track the podcast, here is last week's episode!

There was a lot of fun to be had with the concept of applying the phrase, "so much for..." to each of the articles discussed in this episode.

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Articles for Episode 230: So Much For...

When the show notes get put together for an episode, normally there is a common theme. This time it's more of a common phrase applied. Tonight we've got a number of items to discuss that cover a wide range of topics.

 Here are the articles, like I said, the subject range is pretty broad tonight!

• That whole "being dead" thing: 'Dead' man wakes up at funeral that becomes celebration
• Cutting extra spending in Government: This Is Not a Joke: Government Issues Study of a Study About Studies
• Government regulating the banks: JPMorgan Sought Loophole on Risky Trading
• Taxing the rich: Facebook co-founder renounces citizenship ahead of IPO
• Scouting being good for kids: Catholic Bishops don't like the Girl Scouts? WTF?
• The Left being the bastion of Human Rights: US to resume arms sales to Bahrain despite human rights concerns
• Factual reporting: Family: Story about Romney prank on brother 'factually incorrect,' politically motivated
• The birth certificate being proof enough: Judge Wants Definition of ‘Natural Born Citizen’
• The end of the world: EXCAVATION OF MAYAN CALENDAR DEBUNKS 2012 MYTH

More interesting reads, just not enough time to cover them all!

Articles for Episode 206: So Many Bad Ideas, So Little Time

For some reason, when presented with a number of choices, it seems that people lately have been taking the worst option available. In this episode we talk about a number of different articles were bad decisions seem to be the flavor of the day. Here are the articles we've lined up to discuss:

• Fake Doctor Injected Cement Into Woman's Rear, Police Say
• Officers in University Pepper Spray Incident Placed on Leave
• Tens of thousands of Egyptians protest army 'dictatorship'
• Governor: Mitt Romney making 'big mistake' by neglecting Iowa
• Rick Perry Town Hall Attendees Asked To Prove Citizenship
• National Debt Hits $15 Trillion as Congress Strains to Cut $1.2 Trillion From Deficits
• Super Committee Deadline Looms: Failure Would Pose Crummy Choice
• John Kerry Equates Increasing Taxes to Men and Women Dying in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Tom Coburn Decries 'Welfare' For Millionaires In New Report

Of course, there was more going on in the news this week. Here are the articles that didn't make the list:

• Angry over spying, Muslims say: 'Don't call NYPD'
• Controversial Benetton Pope-imam kiss ad pulled
• Lawmakers Confront Executives Over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Bonuses
• US police arrest White House drive-by shooting suspect
• Hill Probe Focuses on Energy Secretary's Solyndra Emails
• Rethink PAC, Anti-Scott Brown Super PAC, Launches First Attack Ads
• The Supreme Court Cannot Have Its Own Conflict of Interest -- Justices Thomas and Scalia Must Recuse Themselves
• MILITARY: Spec-Ops Command: SEAL raid book 'a lie'
• Chelsea Clinton To Become NBC Correspondent
• New York court upholds eviction of Occupy protesters
• Mark Kelly: Won't run for Giffords' House seat
• Florida Mom Complains After Hooters Waitress Speaks at Son’s School
• More police departments look to tune public out

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Episode 167: It's Our Money

I've tried foks, really I have - I cannot find anything but news on the budget or protests... in some cases in the same stories! Tonight we're going to talk about the budget discussion and maneuvering that is going on this week. It's our money, let's talk about how they're trying to spend it.

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Articles for this episode:

• Foreclosure Prevention (Pirate and Villan Ads)
• NBC Equates Madison to Egypt While Ignoring ‘Scott Stalin’ Placard, All Spike Obama’s Role
• Fake Doctors’ Notes Being Handed Out at Wisconsin Gov. Union Rally
• Wisconsin Democrats could stay away for weeks
• In Wisconsin and Washington, budget battles reshape political landscape
• House Approves Planned Parenthood Defunding
• House votes 244-179 to kill U.S. funding of IPCC

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Episode 166: Budgets and Other Pending Battles

Tonight we’ve got a lot to talk about that has been given sideline status because of the history being made in Egypt and other North African and Near East countries.  It’s budget time, and we’re going to start looking at proposals in Florida, New York and at the Federal level.  Throw in the CPAC results and there are a lot of battles ahead!

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• Wake Forest coach gives player kidney
• New York Congressman Resigns Over Shirtless Photo
• CPAC winners and losers
• YAF kicks out Ron Paul
• Florida Budget Cuts: Gov. Rick Scott's 5 Most Dramatic Proposals
• Ouch! Gov. Cuomo’s budget plan spreads lots of pain
• Military dissolves Egypt parliament
• UPDATE 3-Obama budget to cut U.S. deficit by $1.1 trillion

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Episode 165: Good and Bad Decisions

In tonight’s episode we have to talk about the decisions we make. After listening to the news of the week, it seems that there are some good, some bad... and some we can only guess the impact of.

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Articles for tonight's show:

• Navy Lends a Hand in Home Makeover
• ‘Makeover’ daughter faces charges in slashing
• Super Bowl: 400 sent home because seats unsafe
• Hassan testifies to night of his wife's murder
• Analysis: Cuomo tough-times budget a hit, so far
• Meant to Be Broken? Maybe Not This Time
• West Backs Gradual Egyptian Transition

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Episode 164: Full of Crap

Ya know, sometimes you just have to point out the truth. This time, we’re looking at some stories and one big speech to find the caca in and discuss.

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Articles for tonight's show:

• Lawsuit to Taco Bell: Where's the beef?
• Rahm Emanuel Campaigns Day After State Supreme Court Rules He’s Eligible
• Loughner Pleads Not Guilty in Arizona
• Hassan Takes The Stand; 25 Objections and Counting
• Joan Smith: Egypt's lesson to Obama: prefer rights to tyranny
• China Microblogs Block Chinese Word for 'Egypt'
• State of the Union 2011: President Obama's Full Speech

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Episode 157: Sanctimonious Insanities

As the US approaches the insanity of Christmas shopping, I thought it would be fun to look at some other crazy things that have surfaced in the news. We also have to talk about the compromoise proposal between the President and the Republicans.

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We opened the show with three "fun" stories, all related and all actually news. The biggest point was the breakdown of the President's briefing on the tax cut compromise and the fact that Bill Clinton had to come in to talk it up!

Links for tonight's show:

• Egyptian Official: Israel Could Be Behind Deadly Shark Attack
• Iran arrests pigeons 'spying' on nuclear site
• Iranians arrest 14 squirrels for spying
• Senate removes federal judge in impeachment conviction
• Halliburton May Pay Nigeria $500 Million To Keep Cheney Out of Prison
• Wikileaks: Swiss bank shuts Julian Assange's account
• British Court Denies Bail to Assange
• Obama tries to sell tax cut extension deal -- to Democrats
• President Clinton Endorses Tax Deal

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