Podcast for 21 April 2014

[MrBogosity]

[mp3]http://podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2014-04-21.mp3[/mp3]


Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 - 86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers http://m.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/86m-full-time-private-sector-workers-sustain-148m-benefit-takers
• 4:17 - Citing decades-old claims, feds seize tax refunds http://overlawyered.com/2014/04/federal-government-seizes-tax-refunds-citing-decades-old-claims/
• 11:40 - Ron Paul's Group Fined by IRS for Not Handing Over Donor List http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/04/16/ron-pauls-group-fined-irs-not-handing-over-donor-list
  
  
  
  • 501(c)(4) organization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization#501.28c.29.284.29
• 13:45 - Organic Marketing Report: Why Consumers Pay more For Organic Foods? Fear Sells and Marketers Know it http://academicsreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/AR_Organic-Marketing-Report_Print.pdf

22:51 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: David Kirby http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/post2468343_b_2468343.html

• Genetics and the myth of vaccine encephalopathy http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603512/

Idiot Extraordinaire: J. Pepper Bryars http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/04/libertarianism_isnt_an_alterna.html

This Week's Quote: "What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse...People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it." —Eugene Gendlin

[Travis Retriever]

Damn, I wish I was on the podcast this week.  I was in the shower before Jon showed up and and Shane asked me.  I would have accepted had I known you were going to have gone over the organic food article.

I showed it to my mom.  Her response?  She gets defensive, and tail between the legs ish about it, and clings on the "yes, but it's like with the anti-bacterial soap!  The plants produce their own pesticides when they don't have that shit sprayed on them." And does a anecdote of a comparison between her food grown and some other neighbor's (that she doesn't even know for sure if it was pesticide they were spraying on it). She did at least acknowledge that the price is a bit much and that it's usually just the quality of the fruit/veggies (how it looks, any bruises on it, etc) and it's usually the best looking stuff she goes for so yeah. Still annoying regardless...as she seemed to be saying that the pesticides are bad for *our* health...

[Dallas Wildman]

I should point out that there are indeed pro-life libertarians, Julie Borowski is an example.  Of course there are always subfactions for every ideology out there.

[FSBlueApocalypse]

I should point out that there are indeed pro-life libertarians, Julie Borowski is an example.  Of course there are always subfactions for every ideology out there.

True, although Borowski is a Republican shill.

[Dallas Wildman]

True, although Borowski is a Republican shill.

According to what?

[FSBlueApocalypse]

According to what?

http://insomniaclibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/03/our-guilty-pleasure-were-covering-cpac.html

Token Libertarian Girl, FreedomWork's Julie Borowski, and Republican Liberty Caucus candidates from South Carolina and New Mexico addressed the prospects for the Liberty movement and the threat of Libertarian Party spoilers to Republican candidates.  One Congressman from the south opined that Libertarian Party candidates are now stealing votes and ruining elections for half a dozen GOP candidates every election - and noted that in some cases, for less libertarian GOP candidates, he didn't mind seeing this happen.  I kept waiting for one to advocate the usual Republican strategy of keeping Libertarians off the ballot but no one did.  Julie Borowski then decamped for the annual Blogger Bash across the street at a piano bar called Bobby McKay's, where she was nominated for a blogging award.

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I'm not shitting on all pro-life libertarians. Abortion isn't an issue that gets my blood up. But Borowski is one of those libertarians who sound great up until election season.

[Ibrahim90]

fuck, the US government owns 148 million slaves? even the Omanis would question how one could do that!

[evensgrey]

fuck, the US government owns 148 million slaves? even the Omanis would question how one could do that!

No, 86 million slaves, who are not able to produce enough to support the 148 million users, hence the growing (and, most likely, already unpayable) debt and liabilities.

[Ibrahim90]

No, 86 million slaves, who are not able to produce enough to support the 148 million users, hence the growing (and, most likely, already unpayable) debt and liabilities.

that's even worse then XD

sounds more and more like Imperial Rome than the "land of the free"

[evensgrey]

that's even worse then XD

sounds more and more like Imperial Rome than the "land of the free"

Imperial Rome was funded by conquering new territory, then looting it (a practice that seems to have really gotten going with Julius Caesar, which is a subtler explanation of how he started the processes that killed Rome than the usual one of his starting the Emperor Cult). The US hasn't decided to start doing that yet. Not that it would work, as modern warfare consumes far more wealth than it can be used to seize. (This doesn't mean someone like Obama might not decide to take a page from the likes of Abraham Lincoln and try imposing a tax on some other country.)