Podcast for 12-5-2011

[MrBogosity]

[mp3]https://bogosity.podbean.com/mf/web/n8z7vm/BogosityPodcast-12-5-2011.mp3[/mp3]


News of the Bogus:

• Kansas teen won't apologize to governor's office for Twitter post http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/28/us/kansas-high-schooler-tweet/index.html?hpt=hp_c23
  
  • Emma Sullivan Apology: Kansas High School Student Not Sorry About Sam Brownback Tweet http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/27/emma-sullivan-apology-sam-brownback-tweet_n_1115382.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl1|sec1_lnk2|115902
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  Student faces U.S. extradition over 'pirate-TV link' website http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/student-faces-us-extradition-over-pirate-tv-link-website/13370
  
  
  
  • UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Shawn C. REIMERDES, et al., Defendants http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6767201706448209578&q=273+F.3d+429&hl=en&as_sdt=2,5
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  Pizza as a Vegetable? Congress Proposes New School Lunch Bill http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/11/17/pizza-as-vegetable-congress-proposes-new-school-lunch-bill/
  
  
  
  • Did the Reagan-era USDA really classify ketchup as a vegetable? http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2517/did-the-reagan-era-usda-really-classify-ketchup-as-a-vegetable
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  'Eat More Kale' trademark flap more complex than simple slogan http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20111124/BUSINESS08/111240307/-Eat-More-Kale-trademark-flap-more-complex-than-simple-slogan
  
  
  
  • Chick-fil-A: Stop Bullying Small Business Owners http://www.change.org/petitions/chick-fil-a-stop-bullying-small-business-owners

Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/11/obama-us-has-gotten-lazy-about-foreign-investment/1

Idiot Extraordinaire: The European Union http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/EU-bans-claim-that-water-can-prevent-dehydration.html

• Dehydration - Prevention http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/tc/dehydration-prevention

This Week's Quote: "[T]oday we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups...unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power." —Philip K. Dick

[FSBlueApocalypse]

I must be the only person in the South who thinks Chick-Fil-A is over priced and insanely overrated.

[AnCap Dave]

My face has been frozen in the same position of complete shock and dismay from hearing and reading about the EU banning the claim that water prevents dehydration. Just....wow. Wow. Now excuse me while I wipe the blood gushing from my nose.

[evensgrey]

Keep in mind that the EU had, 30 years ago, created an environment such that nobody reacted with disbelief at the notion of a package of toothpicks coming with instructions.