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15 Oct 2013

Gilligan’s Island Nostalgia

Gilligan’s Island and its crusty cast of characters invaded our television sets in September 1964 and America gobbled it up. The popular television comedy had a successful three-year run, culminating in September 1967 almost to the day. Take a nostalgic “Where Are They Now” tour of the sitcom,spiced with some interesting facts and trivia in this edition of LOL. And be sure to join us next Tuesday for another journey through the lighter side of life. — The Wickel

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15 Oct 2013

Earth in 100 Million Years

Six-hundred million years ago Earth was basically composed of three huge landmasses and a lot of water. Then the planet evolved into seven continents as the Earth’s crustal plates shifted and collided over long periods of time. In this edition of SpaceRip, see what Planet Earth will look like in 100 million years.

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15 Oct 2013

Government Settlement in Limbo

The rhetoric is friendlier and Republicans and Democrats are still talking, but the government shutdown appears far from settled. Newsmax’s Steve Malzberg discusses the contentious standoff between the parties with Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York in this edition of The Steve Malzberg Show.

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14 Oct 2013

Double Take

Here are 17 photos that will keep you locked-in to your monitor and questioning your eyesight. Be sure to concentrate and focus. Bet you look at this BuzzFeed video twice!

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14 Oct 2013

Resurrection Biology

Scientists now have the technology to bring animals back from extinction … sort of,” according to Hank Green of SciShow. Green says that since DNA detiorates over time, and scientists have determined that it can remain intact for no more than 6.8 million years, which rules out a Jurassic Park travesty. “Instead, the only vanished species we can attempt to revive are the ones that died relatively recently, within the past few tens of thousands of years.” So how exactly would you resurrect a vanished species? Green says there are three possible methods. Tune in as Green explains in this edition of SciShow.

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12 Oct 2013

Morris: Republicans in Trouble

The Republican Party is fighting the wrong fight and taking a beating in the opinion polls to boot. That’s the assessment from political pundit Dick Morris, who says Republicans should concentrate on the debt limit debate instead. “We need to go back to the basics that I’ve been saying from the beginning,” Morris explains. “The debt limit fight is the right fight to wage. The Obamacare fight through the government shutdown is not the right fight to wage. You can roll back parts of Obamacare as part of cutting spending on the debt limit, but to close the government down and say unless you repeal Obamacare we’re going to shut the government down, is a serious, serious mistake.”

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11 Oct 2013

No Warming in 15 Years!

Jodi Miller reports that the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) now admits there hasn’t been any global warming for the past 15 years, which means there hasn’t been any warming since the last time Al Gore was able to look down and see his feet. This edition of NewsBusted also features Obamacare, the IRS, poverty and the economy and Al Qaeda Twitter.

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11 Oct 2013

Non-Essentials Scare Dems

With Congress awash in gridlock, and no end in sight, there is one aspect of the government shutdown that has Democrats and President Obama quaking in their collective boots.  In this edition of “Afterburner,” Bill Whittle explains that 17 percent of the federal workforce are non-essential workers, and if the government shuts them down, President Obama and the Democratic Party fear no one will really notice. “If the American people become fully aware of the fact that they can get along just fine without the non-essential 17 percent of the federal government, then they may start asking why they can’t have 17 percent of their taxes returned to them,” Whittle says.

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10 Oct 2013

The Eyes Don’t Have It

Cultural lore about the persuasive powers of eye contact has been debunked by a professor at the University of British Columbia. Studies by assistant professor and psychologist Frances Chen indicate that direct eye contact make skeptical listeners less likely to change their minds–not more–as previously believed. Elliott Morgan and Joe Bereta spell out the goods on the study in this edition of SourceFed.

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10 Oct 2013

Hitting the Debt Target

President Barack Obama’s persistent refusal to acknowledge that raising the debt ceiling will raise the national debt, has at least one financial commentator in a frenzy. “The president again, is he lying or is he just a moron,” says Peter Schiff, who produces a financial show on Internet radio. “He (president) says that if we raise the debt ceiling, it doesn’t give us more debt, it just let’s us pay for things like Social Security, or veterans benefits or the greatest military in the world. How? How do we pay for all those things? With debt, by issuing debt, by borrowing money.” Schiff further explained that the debt ceiling is more of a debt target. The more you hit the target, the more you move it back, he says. Take in the rest of his rant in this edition of The Peter Schiff Show.

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