Podcast for 4-9-2012

[MrBogosity]

[mp3]https://bogosity.podbean.com/mf/web/6xendj/BogosityPodcast-2012-04-09.mp3[/mp3]


News of the Bogus:

• Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/man-whose-wmd-lies-led-to-100000-deaths-confesses-all-7606236.html
  
  
  
  • Truth About War http://truthaboutwar.org/
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  Report slams denied ambulance call death http://www.thelocal.se/39930/20120327/
  
  
  
  • Heart attack victim dies after ambulance denied http://www.thelocal.se/39656/20120314/
  • Boy's call about fatal fire dismissed as 'prank' http://www.thelocal.se/39494/20120305/
  • 17-year-old dies after ambulance no-show http://www.thelocal.se/39022/20120209/
  • Man dies after ambulance call went unanswered http://www.thelocal.se/38842/20120201/
  • Trolling Could Get You 25 Years in Jail in Arizona http://gizmodo.com/5898585/itll-soon-be-illegal-to-troll-in-arizona

Biggest Bogon Emitter: C0nc0rdance (nominated by Neil Purcell) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oygQVhu30s

• Butt-tax blowback http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/butt_tax_blowback_QC2Bti6DW6m4Fe9mmF4iVI
• The Political Interests Paradox http://www.downsizedcfoundation.org/blog/the-political-interests-paradox

Idiot Extraordinaire: NYC Department of Education http://io9.com/5896836/nyc-dept-of-education-wants-to-ban-the-word-dinosaur-from-standardized-tests

This Week's Quote: "Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education." —John Alexander Smith

[evensgrey]

I find myself wondering if C0nc0rdance has been using a Dickens Ploy:  Producing content of a particular sort to get an audience, then gradually switching to the topics he actually wants to talk about.

[Ibrahim90]

I find myself wondering if C0nc0rdance has been using a Dickens Ploy:  Producing content of a particular sort to get an audience, then gradually switching to the topics he actually wants to talk about.

not that it matters to me; was never subbed to him. would have if he hadn't made some of his videos.

@Shane: nice touch with your descption of "Libertarian Muslims". (no, no sarcasm involved).

[MrBogosity]

@Shane: nice touch with your descption of "Libertarian Muslims". (no, no sarcasm involved).

Thanks, but really, it's just that they exist. I've actually met several.

[Ibrahim90]

Thanks, but really, it's just that they exist. I've actually met several.

I ought to know

in any event: it's just annoying how some say being a Muslim is somehow antithetical to being a libertarian, or just being in favor of freedom.

[evensgrey]

I ought to know

in any event: it's just annoying how some say being a Muslim is somehow antithetical to being a libertarian, or just being in favor of freedom.

Unfortunately, some of those who say such things also claim to be Muslims.

[Ibrahim90]

Unfortunately, some of those who say such things also claim to be Muslims.

I was in part referring to them too.

[Goaticus]

I remember a group of Libertarian Muslims in Ann Arbor. They called themselves Minaret of Freedom.

[ebalosus]

Ah Shane, I'm a little confused about a point you made in the podcast. You pointed out that in america, it is against the law to deny care or ambulatory services to people, and it sounds by implication that you support EMTALA, something regarded by others as an unfunded mandate.

[MrBogosity]

Ah Shane, I'm a little confused about a point you made in the podcast. You pointed out that in america, it is against the law to deny care or ambulatory services to people, and it sounds by implication that you support EMTALA, something regarded by others as an unfunded mandate.

I pointed it out because it's a fact. It's the situation in America. Descriptive, not prescriptive.