Show Notes for December 11, 2014

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  • BJ's
    • TV
      • EZTV
        • "TV torrent distribution group"
        • "On 9 December 2014, The Pirate Bay was raided by the Swedish Police and it resulted in EZTV going down, by the 11th of December EZTV was releasing torrents again though the main site is not yet up."
      • The Blacklist
        • "A former government agent turned high-profile criminal, who had eluded capture for decades, voluntarily surrenders to the FBI, offering to cooperate on capturing a list of criminals who are virtually impossible to catch."
        • "On Rotten Tomatoes, the show has a rating of 82%, based on 45 reviews."
    • Restaurants
    • Haircuts
    • That Darn Cat!  "is a 1965 American Walt Disney Productions thriller comedy film starring Hayley Mills […] in a story about bank robbers, a kidnapping and a mischievous cat."
    • http://www.yelp.com/biz/city-view-restaurant-san-francisco
    • http://www.yelp.com/biz/vesta-redwood-city
    • Smithfield Foods
      • Snopes MIXTURE "Smithfield Foods was sold to a Chinese company that will be slaughtering and processing hogs raised in the U.S."
    • Why does organic milk last so much longer than regular milk?
    • Saturday Night Live - More Cowbell
  • Lunch
    • 4th Street, Berkeley
    • Intelligent discussions
    • Religion
      • Demographics of atheism
        • In the US
          • "The most recent ARIS report, released March 9, 2009, found in 2008, 34.2 million Americans (15.0%) claim no religion, of which 1.6% explicitly describes itself as atheist (0.7%) or agnostic (0.9%), nearly double the previous 2001 ARIS survey figure of 0.9%."
          • "A 2012 study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life reports that just 6% of the US population are atheists even though the number of religiously unaffiliated has grown from 15% to just under 20%."
      • United Church of Christ
        • , and the denomination notes that the "Bible, though written in specific historical times and places, still speaks to us in our present condition".
        • "Churches in the UCC can solemnize same-sex unions. The resolution "In support of equal marriage rights for all", supported by an estimated 80 percent of delegates to the church's 2005 General Synod, made the United Church of Christ the first major Christian deliberative body in the U.S. to endorse "equal marriage rights for all people, regardless of gender," and still the largest Christian denominational entity in the U.S. supporting same-sex marriage."

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