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306 We Live!!! (2011-05-22)

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0:00:00JCD: “They tried to make me go to rehab and I said, chick, when’s my flight?
0:00:37Apocalypse fails to materialize, CBS package on Rapture prediction by Harold Camping; 8.4 magnitude earthquake in Libya scrubbed from internet geological sites
0:09:09Ted Kaczynski linked to 1982 Tylenol cyanide case, Scott Bartz’ book The Tylenol Mafia implicates Johnson & Johnson supply chain tampering, ACC Red Book: smoking gun DNA
0:17:51Arnold Schwarzenegger potentially blackmailed over illegitimate child; ACC’s hearing loss vs JCD’s hearing protection, name the Eric Clapton band contest; JCD’s PC disassembly video
0:26:47Producer Segment; spotting private investigators and process servers
0:39:16Patriot Act extended four years “now with new improved lone wolf provisions” in spite of Republican and Obama posturing, JCD: “why don’t we just call it the national socialist agenda?”; Obama’s Middle East “meme-fest” speech: support for the “lone blogger”, Gaddafi’s war on his own people “promising to hunt them down like rats”, “matter of days and not a matter of weeks” revisited, “people expect the transformation of the region to be resolved in a matter of weeks, but it will be years before this story reaches its end”, JCD: “what??
0:48:43Sen. Rand Paul on nonexistent “War Powers Act” deadline; NPR’s Andy Carvin tweeting from State Department, Macon Phillips intro: #MESpeech “trending worldwide”, Tech Hippy JCD, script-reading keyboard-banging Carvin, Obama “a new generation has emerged” tweet
1:01:28George Takei “that is so Takei!” in response to Tennessee “Don’t Say Gay” bill, “any time you need to say the word gay, you can simply say Takei”; missionaries massing near JCD’s home
1:05:00Shadow Puppet Theater: DHS cybersecurity chief Philip Reitinger steps down
1:07:10NASCAR announcer: “Carl Edwards is shitting in the car”
1:09:03British “super injunction” on allegations against Royal Bank of Scotland’s Fred “the Shred” Goodwin; douchebag MP “the law of privilege, of privacy” flub, Judge David Neuberger: “a degree of secrecy is often necessary to do justice”, ACC: “my name is Lord Frothymix
1:18:42Scandal over Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun hacking into voicemails of celebrities and politicians
1:20:21British radio satire: “dry comment about how shit the weather is in our part of the world before signing off with a reminder that the news will be on again in one hour!”
1:23:46Donation Segment
1:33:23Corny “ethnics” dialogue from 1956 film Crime in the Streets; upcoming “Douchebag Billboard Awards”, Bono throws Spider-Man director Julie Taymor under the bus; @whitegrlproblem
1:43:18Obama’s bewildering pardons for decades-old crimes such as selling illegal alligator hides
1:49:09ACC shifts Red Book prediction “Egypt Guy” to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn to Chicago native Christine Lagarde, former chair of Libya sanctions advisor Baker & McKenzie
1:54:23Required financial statement from Vivek Kundra MIA; LA Times article by Michael Hiltzik on FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker’s revolving door jump to Comcast
1:57:48Upcoming Deauville summit with Nikolas Sarkozy, Rupert Murdoch, and Mark Zuckerberg; C-SPAN interview with Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed author Richard Miniter, attendance at US schools, murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane
2:05:55Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accuses West of stealing its rain using weather modification; China gives Pakistan 50 JF-17 fighter jets, another $4.8bn for Congo; journalists attacked in Libya
2:12:41Obama: “it’s no coincidence that one of the leaders of Tahrir Square was an executive for Google”, ACC: “hello everybody, G.W. Obama here, ehh, with Michelle, and Talika and Mahama!”; fawning 18-minute BBC interview; “glaring” contest with Benjamin Netanyahu