Modus Operandi Podcast episode 44

episode 44 12/28/2010 

And now available in four parts for download!

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RSS Feed update

I know that many of our listeners use the RSS feed to automatically download new episodes of the podcast so here is exciting news for you.  The original feed will now provide you with each episode broken up into roughly 20 minute segments.  You will also download the entire show as a single file until Febuary.  Next week we will introduce a second RSS feed that will only download the entire show so you will need to switch if that is your preferred listening method.  Me, I'm on the fence on this one.  Though the show is usually an hour and a half, I tend to listen to podcasts while I'm working so it's no big deal.  On the other hand, if it were broken up into segments it would make it easier for me to come back to the podcast or to simply fast forward past Dave droning on about sports... or me frothing about how much cops suck or vice versa.  Regardless, it's not going to happen with our year end special (not really special and recorded Tuesday via telephone) but next week the second RSS feed will be here for you and when January is over you will have to choose between segments and full.  We hope you've had a great year and that 2011 will be better.

MOpod Wishes You and Yours a Happy Whatever

This time of the year, the beginning of winter, is a time of celebration and reflection across the northern hemisphere.  No matter how you observe whatever you observe we hope you enjoy whatever it is.

Modus Operandi Podcast episode 43

episode 43 12/17/2010 

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Show Notes:

This week the show starts off with Alan going over the links from the last couple of weeks and then he is joined after the first break by Dave calling in from Colorado where he arrived after traipsing around Vancouver and other places while blowing off last week's recording time.   I guess he thinks he's better than everybody else now that he's the MOpod International Correspod-ent.  Clever, eh?

Linky Dinks

"Six months into Obama's term, most Americans told pollsters they preferred socialism to capitalism. In early 2010 one in five Republicans said they have a positive view of socialism." - Ted Rall

This is kind of like the U.S. Marines claiming the peace symbol is theirs.

Keep an eye on the sky 'cause the gubment is watching you, and maybe not even your own gubment.

Birther deserter gets a mere 6 months in prison.  During WWII he would have been shot. 

"By the way, I have chosen Sarah Palin Person of the Year. And the year is 1641." - Andy Borowitz

What we need is more guns.

Ever wonder why wingnuts still doubt climate change? Thought it might just be the "mainstream media's" tendency to put one legitimate scientist up against a doubter as if that was an even match (It should be nine and a half scientists and one doubter)? Yeah, that's part of it, but this is probably much more a cause.

Top 5 problems with the tax deal: 1. The deal is a stealth attack on Social Security. 2. For nearly one in three workers, it's a tax increase. 3. The deal has not one but TWO millionaire bailouts. 4. Unemployment help is insufficient and inadequate. 5. Tax giveaways to the rich are a terrible way to create jobs.

Atheists don't commit as much crime as the religious.  Only the religious are surprised.

Full transcript of the complete 8 hour filibuster here.

Surprise.  Fox News deliberately slanted news coverage of health care.

Bernie Sanders Speaks His Mind

For almost nine hours today, an actual filibuster over this tax "compromise."  I watched the last couple of hours and it was really fantastic. 

Can You Feel the GOP Love?

In their righteous fight to reduce the deficit the Republicunts are offsetting the $700 billion in tax breaks to the wealthiest 2% of Americans by refusing the $250 check for seniors and disabled vets meant to offset the cost of living increase they won't otherwise get in 2011.  Go GOP!

Linky Dinks

Oh no! She got Rudolph!

Obama agrees to extend Republican's custody of his balls.

Kentucky Governor sees nothing wrong with giving over $37million in tax breaks to theme park that presents the myth of Noah's ark as fact.

Guess who actually will pay more taxes under the "compromise" Obama has given to the GOP?  The poor, of course.

Repressed homosexual Republican councilman convinced TSA's "enhanced patdowns" are part of "gay agenda.  Look, just because you get a boner from having your balls handled by another man doesn't make that man gay, it makes you gay, Mr. Delgaudio.





An argument for public funding of independent news.

Shocking News! Fox News Intentionally Slanted to the Right!

Talking Points Memo has obtained e-mails that show Fox News in the act of deliberately parroting GOP talking points and language during the health care debate.  Surprise.

Ogre-oid: Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell Falls Three Votes Short

We may not be a nation of haters but we sure as hell have a Congress of haters.

Modus Operandi Podcast episode 42

episode 42 12/03/2010

Show Notes & Links:

Alan & Dave are back from the road and come at you with a ride on the Ogrevator.  But now you have the opportunity to hop off the Ogrevator and hop on the MOpod!  The Ogrevator only takes you to the Ogrefest, but the MOpod takes you everywhere you want to go!  ...or something like that.

Wikkileaks came up but so much has happened since we recorded the podcast I'm going to ignore it.

MOpod is going to lead the protest against the "accepted mythic nightmare" of endless war.

Liberal gene.

Please adopt Buddy the kitten.  He's sweet, beautiful, and a ball of soft purr:

Ogreball:  Iroquois high v Brown 111-20.

Alan On the Spot:

Kentucky v North Carolina:  N.C. wins by less than ten

Will Korean peninsula still exist?  Yes

Saints will win.

Ogrefest Themes from Episode 42

As the MOpod 42 works its way through the editing mill, we give you these three versions of the Ogrefest theme to whet your appetite.  Enjoy!

[Player plays all three themes]

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Ogrefest Theme (Now with Jazz!)

Ogrefest Theme (Slight Return)

Ogrefest Theme (Slight Return 2)

Bat Shit Crazy Report - Loudoun County Board of Supervisors representative Eugene Delgaudio

Nothing is quite as pathetic as repressed homosexual evangelicals.  Meet Eugene Delgaudio who is very upset that he gets a boner when thinking about another man caressing his balls and running his finger over his anus.  The firm, open palm of a uniformed man stroking over his nipples causes Mr. Delgaudio to gasp for breath and worry he might ejaculate so it is obvious that this "enhanced pat down" must be the work of the homosexuals trying to make him gay.  The TSA is part of the "Gay Agenda."  Come out of the closet you sad little man.

Bernie Sanders is a Good Man