ORly Radio Show 76 - Tucker Drake
Welcome to ORly
Radio Show 76 for Friday
September 4th,
2015 - 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 suspect
Michael and an unusual guest suspect
Tucker Drake.
You can find Tucker here:
Atheist in the
Trailer Park http://trailerparkatheist.libsyn.com/ http://tparkatheist.blogspot.com/ http://www.facebook.com/trailerparkatheist
Bootstrapping the
Planet http://bootstrap.libsyn.com/ and http://bootstrappingtheplanet.blogspot.com/ http://www.facebook.com/bootstrapplanet
Errata From
Last Week: We make mistakes.
Please, if you find one, pause the podcast, and send us a note. orlyradiopodcast@gmail.com or phone it in 470-222-6759
RANT Segments &
Headlines:
Womb Tanks are a thing. http://www.sciencegymnasium.com/2013/12/the-artificial-womb-is-born-and-world
.html
Bernie Sanders took some heat over spouting facts yet again. Politifact stepped in to clarify. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/aug/30/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-saudi-arabia-has-third-largest-mili/
Speaking of military spending, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/world/asia/beijing-turns-into-ghost-town-as-it-gears-up-for-military-parade.html?_r=0
GOP Presidential contestant
Donald Trump Signed the no compete pledge, making the GOP do a collective sigh of relief. At least until they realize he is still their best chance at the
White House. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34144850
The latest poll by
Monmouth University puts Mr Trump way ahead with support from 30% of
Republicans, and retired neurosurgeon
Ben Carson running a distant second with 18%. The rest of the
Republican pack is trailing far behind, with
Jeb Bush currently tied with
Texas senator
Ted Cruz at 8%
GOP Presidential contestant Ted Cruz instructs thousands of pastors to violate federal law by reading Sunday sermon he wrote http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/ted-cruz-instructs-thousands-of-pastors-to-violate-federal-law-by-reading-sunday-sermon-he-wrote/
Rowan County Kentucky Clerk
Kim Davis has been dominating the news with her bigotry. She was denied her 3rd appeal to the supreme court, refused yet again and has been jailed, since then the county has been issuing same sex wedding licenses, specifically to
James Yates and
Will Smith Jr. this morning.
Let’s hope that she fades into the margins of history.
And in a surprise twist, well not that surprising, in
Hamilton County Tennessee,
Chancellor Jeffery
Atherton denied a divorce request citing the supreme court's gay marriage ruling. Atherton said the
Supreme Court must clarify "when a marriage is no longer a marriage." Otherwise, he contended, state courts are impaired from addressing marriage and divorce litigation altogether. He wrote "The conclusion reached by this
Court is that Tennesseans have been deemed by the
U.S. Supreme Court to be incompetent to define and address such keystone/central institutions such as marriage, and, thereby, at minimum, contested divorces."
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PSA
The Good:
Peaceful measures.
China continues to reduce its standing military. In
1997 they cut
500,
000 from their ranks. Then in
2000 another 200,000 and as we touched on in the headlines, their president announced another reduction of
300,000 is in progress, which will bring their standing army to 2 million, the lowest numbers since the cold war ended, China has the second largest military in the world next to the
United States http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/world/asia/beijing-turns-into-ghost-town-as-it-gears-up-for-military-parade.html
The Bad:
So
.. Ted Cruz wrote a sermon, not unlike his father’s dominionist sermons. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/ted-cruz-instructs-thousands-of-pastors-to-violate-federal-law-by-reading-sunday-sermon-he-wrote/
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Voicemail
The Ugly:
Hungary’s nationalist prime minister,
Viktor Orbán, has claimed
Europe is in the grip of madness over immigration and refugees, and argued that he was defending
European Christianity against a Muslim influx. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/03/migration-crisis-hungary-pm-victor-orban-europe-response-madness
Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks
Andy’s:
Google Maps /
Google Earth
Mike’s:
NCIS
Tucker’s: Other than his podcasts, he mentioned some interesting things.
Murdoch Mysteries,
The True Believer: Thoughts on the
Nature of
Mass Movements by
Eric Hoffer http://amzn.to/1hJbZic and
Rick and Morty
Acknowledgements:
Music: "
Rocket and Pamgaea” by
Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)
PSA:
Guerrilla Skepticism on
Wikipedia - GSoW https://www.facebook.com/GSoWproject