Podcast for 9 December 2013

[MrBogosity]

[mp3]http://podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2013-12-09.mp3[/mp3]


News of the Bogus:

• 0:44 - Sylvia Browne: Dead Psychic's Legacy Riddled With Failed Predictions, Fraud http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/sylvia-browne_n_4317470.html
• 7:52 - Bitcoin campaign donations have regulators scratching heads http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-bitcoin-20131130,0,6288919.story
• 12:56 - Beyond GDP: Get Ready For A New Way To Measure The Economy http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/11/29/beyond-gdp-get-ready-for-a-new-way-to-measure-the-economy/
  
  
  
  • The Problem with GDP - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFv_tJs6Jq8
  • The Economics of a Pure Gold Standard by Mark Skousen http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=bq4dyGzuN7w&subid=&offerid=239662.1&type=10&tmpid=8433&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%252Fw%252Feconomics-of-a-pure-gold-standard-mark-skousen%252F1102718420
• 18:13 - Man says police officer threatened to kill his dogs http://fox4kc.com/2013/11/27/man-says-police-officer-threatened-to-kill-his-dogs/
• 26:25 - Study linking GM maize to rat tumours is retracted http://www.nature.com/news/study-linking-gm-maize-to-rat-tumours-is-retracted-1.14268
  
  
  
  • Rat study sparks GM furore http://www.nature.com/news/rat-study-sparks-gm-furore-1.11471
  • Elsevier Announces Article Retraction from Journal Food and Chemical Toxicology http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/elsevier-announces-article-retraction-from-journal-food-and-chemical-toxicology
• 33:21 - Federal Regulation Could Redefine The Word 'Organ,' Jeopardize Bone Marrow Donations http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2013/11/25/federal-regulation-could-re-define-the-word-organ-jeopardize-bone-marrow-donations/
  
  
  
  • DownsizeDC's Write the Laws Act https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/write-the-laws/

41:28 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Pope Francis http://world.time.com/2013/11/26/pope-francis-denounces-idolatry-of-money-and-tyranny-of-capitalism/
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium_en.html#No_to_the_new_idolatry_of_money

47:06 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Audreanna Phelps http://gawker.com/5812477/woman-sees-god-in-her-leg-veins

This Week's Quote: "And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit." —Jean-Baptiste Say

[Travis Retriever]

"Money is evil/don't idolize it"
Says the man sitting on billions of dollars worth of wealth...

[Travis Retriever]

"A system of of swindling"?
Why is the "of" repeated?

[AnCap Dave]

Fuck Sylvia Brown.

As someone who has family members who continue to remain victims of these kind of frauds, I have a personal vendetta against them. As Penn said in the very first episode of Bullshit, it's not about the money, but about the desecration of memories.

Fuck it, I'm going to post the full quote:

Before we bust up this party, god dammit we're gonna bust it up, we have to make it very clear where our hearts are. We have nothing but empathy for the people who experiencing the loss and grief of the death of a loved one. That guy who lost his mom rips my heart out. I'm a momma's boy whose mom died a couple years ago and I'll never get over it. Then my dad died at around the same time and I was very close to both of them. I love them so much there isn't a moment that goes by where I don't miss them. Houdini didn't REALLY go nuts busting these mediums until he lost his mom. Once you've felt that pure grief, seeing it exploited can take away your sense of humor. Once a loved one has died all we have is our memories of them. There's nothing more precious to me than my memories of my mom and dad. We don't give a rat's ass about the money these bastards are taking from the grief stricken. What we do care about deeply is the desecration of memories. These performance artists are in the very real sense motherfuckers. That poor guy's grieving memories of his mother are now all fucked up by somebody else's images. All he will ever have left of his mom are memories and this pig has pissed on those for a buck and a little unearned fame. I'm sure these lame fucks tell themselves that they're easing the grief, but skits for money cannot replace loving memories. How low do you have to be to exploit someone's true grief to sell some bullshit book?

[Ibrahim90]

Fuck Sylvia Brown.

As someone who has family members who continue to remain victims of these kind of frauds, I have a personal vendetta against them. As Penn said in the very first episode of Bullshit, it's not about the money, but about the desecration of memories.

Fuck it, I'm going to post the full quote:

I'm celebrating: she deserves no mourning.

[Travis Retriever]

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[Skm1091]

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LOL

[Travis Retriever]

LOL

Shane refused to sing it, so I had to.

[MrBogosity]

"A system of of swindling"?
Why is the "of" repeated?

Because it's that way on Wikiquote and I didn't double-check it.

[Dallas Wildman]

In re IE

Boy I must be partially immune to pareiddolia, because I can barely make those marks out.

[Dallas Wildman]

The whole notion of "the gap" is nothing but an emotional appeal.  As long as the poorest are better off than before there really is no controversy to be found.

[dallen68]

The whole notion of "the gap" is nothing but an emotional appeal.  As long as the poorest are better off than before there really is no controversy to be found.

Or even the relatively poor. Or the working class, or... Well, you get the idea.

Off topic:

There are relatively few "poor" in the Western World; compared to many other places.

[nilecroc]

Hey shane, can you add me on skype?