The Podcast : Episode 40 a/b

Episode 40 a/b – Current Events, Gender Roles, Congressional Suckage, and an Interview with Jo Pollock.

With my new co-host at my side, Persephone and I rail against punishment killing, media sexist shaming, Starbucks sex demands, victim blaming, animal activism, fur, suicide protest, fur is eco-friendly, green label lies, Pope condemns equality, kids equal purpose, Principal Big Brother, rape victims at fault, fashion fails models, Terry Richardson, sexual coercion, Catholic Nuns for Healthcare, stop abortion lies, Boy Scouts sex abuse cover-up, Christian group molestation, Vegans throw pies, activism don’ts, gender roles, media sexist skews, Interview with Jo Pollock, social workers in schools, broken foster care system, Congressional failures, bank bullshit abounds, no regulation, Business as Usual for Wall Street, music, e-mail and more.

The show ran long and had to be divided up once again.

Episode 40
Episode 40b.

Links from Jo

National Foster Parent Association

National Association of Social Workers

National Association of School Social Workers

Links promised in the podcast

NYT Distorts Photo of Christina Hendricks, Calls Her ‘Big’.

Starbucks Barista sues over being fired for denying sexual demands from boss.

Man burns himself alive in protest of fur.

Pope says equality goes against God’s law!

Skepchick tells you what pregnant women won’t about pregnancy.

Boing, Boing post about High School issued Laptops spying on students at home.

BBC report on survey suggesting majority of women in UK believe rape victims share the blame.

Jezebel post on the world’s most fucked up fashion photographer, the sexual predator, Terry Richardson!

Boy Scouts Sex Abuse Cover-up Spans Decades!

The Abortion Gang – Rob Goes Gangsta

That’s right, y’all, I have joined a gang. And as far as gang initiation’s go, I have to say this one was a breeze! Recently a blog began in support of Dr. Tiller, the man and his mission, the one he left behind after being so tragically and untimely taken from this planet because of the hate for his work. But Dr. Tiller lives on in the blogosphere and in the hearts and minds of those who continue where the good Dr. was forced to leave off.

The blog, affectionately called the Abortion Gang, has launched onto the Pro-Choice scene with a powerful voice ready to open the dialog and discuss the truth about Choice, and the fight to take it away. And I am proud to throw my hat into the ring and join this important social conversation as the site gets underway! We were asked when joining to pen a post about why we are Pro-Choice and my post went up today.

As mentioned on the podcast, the Pro-Choice movement seems to be lacking in male support, so it is more important than ever for Pro-Choice men add their voices to the ranks to try and balance out the misogynistically driven males belligerently arguing against Choice! Below is an excerpt from my post about Why I am Pro-Choice, and if you want to read the full thing simply follow the link.

From Why I am Pro-Choice by Rob Bowen
…the main reason that I am pro-choice, and the reason that everyone should be, is because NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE (hence the overly emphatic all caps typing), has the right to control any woman’s reproductive choices other than the woman herself.

The Podcast : Episode 39 a/b

Episode 39 a/b – More on Marijuana, Abortion, and Texas Textbook Debacle!

With a special guest on this episode, Persephone Pomegranate, I discuss a bit more about marijuana after a couple of responses to the last episode from listeners, and then Persephone and I discuss in detail Abortion, veering into the #LiveTweetingAbortion dialog recently started by Angie the Anti-Theist via social media, pro-life propaganda, health care, Planned Parenthood, Georgia’s racist pro-life approach, ‘Abortion Changes You’ ad campaign, dispelling abortion misinformation, Texas Textbook Bullshit, indoctrination of the youth, rewriting history, music, e-mail and more.

The show ran long and had to be divided up once again.

Episode 39
Episode 39b.

Links from Persephone

Persephone’s Blog – My very special guest podcaster, talented zinester, and passionate feminist with a flare for speaking her mind!

Angie the Anti-Theist’s Blog – An awesome, outspoken woman with a lot of brilliant things to say.

45 Million Voices – The amazing community where women share their true experiences.

Think Atheist’s – Thoughts from an Abortion Doctor

A great post about the Utah bill seeking to criminalize miscarriages

Links on Textbook Bullshit

The first NY Times article I read about the curriculum changes being proposed.

Article in the NY Times that Jim sent to me about the Textbook curriculum vote.

The post from BUST Magazine that I read from on the program.

A month 'off' and more!

So I took a month off to get some work done on various side projects, but never fear I have new episodes in the works, including the episode of Ask Science Dude that went up earlier today. And I will be putting together another ep of the Angry Hippie before the end of next week.

Among my accomplishments in my time off I finished my third DJ Mydnyt album, and am redesigning the website for launch TBA. In the meantime, I have uploaded the album cover that I made and the tracks to my account at Behance if you want to check out the full album. Here is a look at the front cover:

Also during the month I put together my first ever zine, and will be getting that printed and available as the summer approaches, with future issues to follow soon. Angry Hippie Unplugged is the name of this project and the first issue is called Digger’s Dream. So look for more about that to come soon. Anyway, it was a busy month ‘off’, but I am excited about everything that I was able to get done. Thanks for sticking around, and I will see you on the flipside.

The Podcast : Episode 38 a/b

Episode 38 a/b – Current Events, Blackwater Case, Bullshitatarianism Abounds.

In this new episode I touch on Tweet with care, US HIV ban ends, dolphin smart, new airline hoopage, condoms cancel rapture reservations, imprecatory prayers, Praying for Obama’s death, Gitmo scare tactics, CIA hired Blackwater for assassinations, Vanity Fair?, sexist journalism, Michael Leiter’s timing faux pas, cognitive infiltration, Obama Admin ball droppage, Haitian earthquake, compassion takes a holiday, Blackwater case dismissed in US, Iraq government says bye bye Blackwater, Mollie Katzen, more bullshitatarians, the flexitarian falacy, music, e-mail and more.

The show ran long and had to be divided up once again.

Episode 38
Episode 38b.

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Links promised in the podcast

Scientists say Dolphins too smart to mistreat!

Why does this Vanity Fair article hate the women of Twitter?

White House Defends Absentee Terror Head

Obama Staffer Called for Government infiltration of Conspiracy groups.

The Podcast : Episode 37 a/b

Episode 37 a/b – 09 Events, Uganda v Gays, Drug War Update.

This first full episode in months touches on Midwest book burning, Jon Stewart, Iran v US Hikers, Henry Louis Gates, Hillary Clinton, Military v Facebook, Alavi Foundation seizures, insurance or jail, Going Rogue with Sarah Palin, Obama’s Patriot Act, Rachel Maddow v Richard Cohen, Ugandan kill the gays bill, Copenhagen, War on Drugs, drugs won the war, marijuana legalization, Act to Remove Federal Penalties for Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults, clips from the front lines, music, e-mail and more.

The show ran long and had to be divided up once again.

Episode 37
Episode 37b

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Links promised in podcast

Obama quietly renews sections of the Patriot Act he once opposed

Rachel Maddow takes on Richard Cohen for his role in the proposed Ugandan legislation. – Thanks to my Tweep @CountessAlice for the heads up!

Copenhagen Climate Summit gets ugly

Drug Czar claims people in prison for marijuana are like unicorns

Milk is a gateway drug for ownage, or Mueller gets Owned

The Podcast : 3rd Annual Vegan Helliday Special

3rd Annual Vegan Helliday Special : Hellidays With a Vengeance.

Once again, the Angry Hippie turns his frustrated gaze towards the holiday season that we find ourselves inundated with. It covers being vegan at Thanksgiving, non-Christian at Christmas, and so much more…including a damning voicemail from Jim’s Dad ;) .

The 3rd Annual Vegan Helliday Special

Here are some excerpts from the e-mail I received and read from at the end of the program.
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From Wikileaks:

“This archive presents over 120Mb of emails, documents, computer code and models from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, written between 1996 and 2009.

The CRU has told the BBC that the files were obtained by a computer hacker 3-4 days ago.

This archive includes unreleased global temperature analysis computer source code that has been the subject of Freedom of Information Act requests.

The archive appears to be a collection of information put together by the CRU prior to a FoI redaction process.”

DOWNLOAD/VIEW FULL FILE FROM
current site

Behold! – Searchable Database of Leaked Emails Provided by Wikileaks
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Just a few excerpts from the emails:

From: Phil Jones. To: Many. Nov 16, 1999
“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature [the science journal] trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”
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From: Mick Kelly To: Nguyen Huu Ninh. June 24, 2003
“NOAA want to give us more money for the El Nino work with IGCN. How much do we have left from the last budget? I reckon most has been spent but we need to show some left to cover the costs of the trip Roger didn’t make and also the fees/equipment/computer money we haven’t spent otherwise NOAA will be suspicious.”
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From Phil Jones To: Michael Mann (Pennsylvania State University). July 8, 2004
“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”
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From: Kevin Trenberth (US National Center for Atmospheric Research). To: Michael Mann. Oct 12, 2009
“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t… Our observing system is inadequate.”

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An excerpt from James Corbett’s message:

A Message to the Environmental Movement

“This is James Corbett of corbettreport.com and I come here today with a message for you.

You the environmentalists, you the activists, you the campaigners.

You who have watched with growing concern the ways in which the world around us has been ravaged in the pursuit of the almighty dollar.

You who are concerned with the state of the planet that we are leaving for our children and our grandchildren and those generations yet unborn.

This is not a message of divisiveness, but cooperation.

This is a message of hope and empowerment, but it requires us to look at a hard and uncomfortable truth:

Your movement has been usurped by the very same financial interests you thought you were fighting against.

You have suspected as much for years.

You watched at first with hope and excitement as your movement, your cause, your message began to spread, as it was taken up by the media and given attention, as conferences were organized and as the ideas you had struggled so long and hard to be heard were talked about nationally. Then internationally.

You watched with growing unease as the message was simplified. First it became a slogan. Then it became a brand. Soon it was nothing more than a label and it became attached to products. The ideas you had once fought for were now being sold back to you. For profit.

Please go to the site and check out the article, links and information for yourself!

Faux News : Fairly Imbalanced

There have been a couple of reports lately from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart that have shone a light on the practices over at Fox News that have not only caught my eye, but have also turned my stomach. This is not something new, most of the programming and ignorant commentary produced by the network generally has that effect on my stomach, but I can really take no more. I am not only in support of the Obama Administration’s decision to boycott the channel, but I think that the rest of America not only needs to share in this boycott but that we would all be the better for it!

As Jon Stewart and crew points out in the videos below, the station’s practices are beyond appalling. The station fabricates stories and spreads falsehoods to push their agendas of discrimination, hate, and fear mongering…or as we saw during the Bush Administration the agenda handed to them by the neo-conservative White House. However you slice it, their title as a news channel is not misleading to the point of hysterical but also a flat out lie. And their slogan, ‘Fair and Balanced’, would be as laughable as the idea of their news channel classification if it wasn’t so fucking sad. Sad because, not only do masses of Americans buy into the bullshit, but they seem to believe it as well. Honestly, they take themselves fucking seriously…

How Fox News Operates

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
For Fox Sake!
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show
Full Episodes
Political Humor Health Care Crisis

Hannity Stacks the Deck

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck’s Protest Footage
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show
Full Episodes
Political Humor Health Care Crisis

How many more instances of improper practices do we really need to suffer? Fox News should just change their names to Faux News : Fairly Imbalanced, and at least then, when the public does suffer through their hourly bile spillage they will be told up front that it is complete and utter shite! Turn the channel, people. This proverbial antagonistic peanut gallery is no longer needed. We want to move forward to a more open-minded and accepting America, and as long as these poisoned tongued misfits are paraded around and passed off to the public as legitimate news agents, that will never fucking happen! Let us take back the airwaves, people.

Faux News Logo

MiniCast 3 – Hell Houses

MiniCast 3 : Hell Houses.

This is the next mini episode where I focus on a single topic for a fixed focus rant (Okay so here I am a little less focused than usual), and in this mini I talk about the Christian indoctrination of the youth in America. Anyway, I hope that you enjoy this short shot show.

Minicast 3 : Hell Houses

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I also give out the new phone number I have for podcast voicemails that may be played on future episodes. So grab the number and hit me up!!

Science Dude Evolves!

It is my great pleasure to announce that Ask Science Dude officially has its own blog! For a while now Sinead and I have been talking about taking that next step, but as technology has not been kind to me lately, that slowed things down on my end. Expect more great things from Science Dude and the Angry Hippie, and be sure to subscribe to the new blog so you don’t miss out on any of the fact filled ranty goodness! In cased you missed the link up there, the address is http://asksciencedude.info . Enjoy!