Cognitive Dissonance

Psychic Fails: 2011 Failed and Forgotten Predictions, The $37.6 Million Dollar Fine HE Doesn’t Want You To Know About, 2012 Presidential Candidate Scorecard, Pope Benedict Peace Message Calls For Wealth Redistribution, Vatican Declares Boy's Recovery A 'Miracle', Dad who botched circumcision loses court appeal, Baby’s death shocks parents, EXPERIENCE HOW PROFESSIONAL BIGFOOT TRACKERS OPERATE IN WE...

Visit Our Website for the show notes: http://dissonancepod.com Contest: Want two free plane tickets to the Reason Rally? Social Media Contest: Ten Point Vision of a Secular America. Christopher Hitchens' 'God Is Not Great' Trends on Twitter, Christians Threaten Violence, Police shave mohawks off punks at Indonesia concert, Saudi Woman Beheaded for 'Witchcraft', The nightmarish SOPA hearings, Ameri...

Visit Our Website for the show notes: http://dissonancepod.com Rick Perry's "Strong Ad" Michele Bachmann On Glenn Beck Calls 8 Year Old Boy's Act "Shameless", One Million Moms, N Korea furious at South's Christmas lights plan, Noam Chomsky's "9/11", Atheists Who Go to Church: Doing It for the Children, Followup -Afghan Rapist, Mercy for the drunk Muslim girl gang who attacked woman, Islamic cleric...

This weeks news items: 6 Dead From HIV from Holy Water Cure, Kentucky Church Bans Interracial Marriage, Bachmann on US Embassy in Iran, VIDEO Bachmann on Gay Marriage, Indefinite Detention for Americans, Therapist and Satanic Cults, Yoga and Harry Potter are Evil, Gingrich and Child Labor, Patrick Redmond - Skeptics on the Pub Birmingham blog and Podcast. Clips used: James Randi on God, Gingrich o...

Obama leaves god out of Thanksgiving address, Sweat lodge sentencing, 12 years for being raped - or marry your attacker, blinded woman asks for mercy for her assailant, Australia tax breaks if you vaccinate, Pepper spray is delicious, occupy shooter, groping ghost. Birmingham Skeptics in the Pub Clips used: Jesus camp / Blue Swede hooked on a feeling mashup, Princess Bride, Quackery PSA, Bill O'Re...

Atheist < Rapist “Honor” killings 1 “Honor” killings 2 Airforce offers classes in crazy Who Would Jesus Vote For? In god we trust, Georgia Pope kissing ads Aliens and the Vatican Sean’s 10 point plan. Sean’s book: Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All- —and What We Can Do About It Reviews: Shocking! Will keep you on the edge of your seat! Sean Faircloth is doing such import...

This week: Irish President is an Atheist, Skeptoid on 10 worst websites, Chuck Norris on Vaccines, Chicken Pox and Lollypops, Personhood Amendment, Net Neutraliy, Herman Cain on China and groping, Rick Perry's 3 favorite things, Protester shot with rubber bullets, Gay Nurse preached to, Transgender burned alive, Burn an evolution book petition. Clips used: Irish National Athem, Quackery PSA, Walke...

Bankrupt Church wnat's food for pastor's sick wife, Faith healing kills again, Climate denyer changes mind, Bullying law passed in MI, Funny petition 1, Funny petition 2, Can't give you tea party story - it has been taken down, Reafirming In god We Trust, More damage to protesters at Occupy Oakland, Obama stimulus rebuked then taken, Rumpology. Clips: Richard Feynman on nutrition and knowledge, Ch...

Christian parents beat child to death - again, counter Westboro baptist church protest win, medical myths of huff po, rhino goes extinct, white house responds to online petition, candy and halloween myths, jesusween, occupy oakland, Wall street isn’t winning it’s cheating, gay nurses make kids gay, welfare boardgame.

Clips: Orson Wells on Cold Reading, Herman Cain on WSJ, Sarah Palin on Fox News, Herman Cain and Uzbekistan on Think Progress, Anonymous, A Few Good Men. Stories: Rapture again, Rick Santorum and Abe Lincoln, Dan Savage wants Herman Cain to suck his dick, Herman Cain said Jesus was killed by a Liberal Court, Herman Cain 999, Michelle Bachmann doesn't know where Libya is, Herman Cain and Uzbekistan...

Praying 24 hours a day, Bill 358 hates women, New date for the rapture, Bishop indicted, Rick Perry is being persecuted for his faith, Herb Cain, 999 Plan, Bachmann wants to go back to Reagan Era taxes, Gay Male Cheerleader, Human Sacrifice for wealth, ultra orthodox vs. orthodox, Fake Raki, 99% and Occupy Wall Street, Glen Beck thinks protesters are going to kill people, Indisputable proof of Yet...

This Episode covers the week of Oct 3rd - 10th, 2011. Steve Jobs followed natural medine, Creationsts caught on camera, Occupy Wall St, Bill O'Reilly says people who need jobs should just get them, Herman Cain is delusional, Conservative infighting, Conservapedia: Border Patrol, Invisible man rapes girl. Clips used: The Nightline Face-Off: Does God Have a Future?, Creationism propaganda for childr...

This is a very acerbic look at the failed political career of Sarah Palin. In celebration of her refusal to run for office in 2012 we have pasted together some of our favorite past news items that focus on her. These recordings are from our other show - Everyone's a Critic.

News items for the week of 9/26 - 10/3 B-Shoc gives a Christian prayer rally in South Carolina, Neutrino could go faster than light, Faith healing parents let son die, American secularism on the rise, Refusing to Kill Daughter, Pakistani Family Defies Tradition, 11,000 kids in California enter the school system without being vaccinated, Skeptic book reccomendations, Obama's class warfare, Huge sup...

Miracle babies aren't much of a miracle. Pat Robertson advocates divorce of Alzheimers patients. Criminals in Alabama can go to church instead of jail. Bad call by an atheist. Pledge of Allegiance petition to take Under God out. Bill O'reilly threatens to quit. President Obama will make guns illegal. Rick Perry and the crazy people who work for him. Syrian girl mutilated. Troy Davis is executed. A...

This Podcast is for the Week of September 12 through September 19, 2011. Stroies this time: The number 13. UFO’s: General’s, Pilots and Government Officials go on the record. Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann are fatalistic. Bachmann and the HPV vaccine. Rick Perry and the death penalty. Ron Paul talks about motivations for 9/11. Tea Party debates and healthcare. Paul Ryan wants to increase payroll...

This podcast is for the week of 9/5/2011 to 9/11/2011. News Items for this Week: Three homosexuals murdered in Iran for being Gay. In Uganda, AIDS patients pray for a cure instead of taking medicine. A statue of the Virgin Mary is credited with preventing a home from burning in the Texas wildfires. The jobless are encouraged to take their resume to church and put it on the altar to help them get a...

What do atheists do in a crisis; National Atheist Registry; Bachmann on hurricanes and earthquakes; Texas budget crisis; gay republicans; Gitmo; Terrorism costs a lot; how to argue; vaccines and hatred; dawkins teaches evolution to the very small; magic.

The Evangelicals Engaged In Spiritual Warfare Vaccine Cleared Again as Autism Culprit Deliberate ignorance GOP: No tax hikes -- except for the poor Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a fact Michele Bachmann Takes Issue With 'Radical Environmentalists,' Signals Stance On Minimum Wage Nuclear Explosions hit vast USZ military tunnel network

North Korea's Kim Jong-il in rare Russia visit Rick Perry: Illegal Immigrants Who Serve In The Military Deserve Citizenship Girl Spanked to Death - Ungodly discipline Court: Teacher can't be sued over anti-Christian remarks Perry To Boy: Evolution 'A Theory' With 'Gaps'; Equates It To Creationism Seven ways Rick Perry wants to change the Constitution Rick Perry's College Transcript: A Lot Of Cs An...

Horror Stories From Tough-Love Teen Homes ‘Family Guy’ Creator Part of ‘Cosmos’ Update E.T. Researchers Say 'Cowboys & Aliens' Distorts Truth About Aliens In Wild West Nothing 'mindless' about rioters United States loses prized AAA credit rating from S&P Stop Coddling the Super-Rich False messiah What I Learned in Two Years at the Tea Party A Christian Plot for Domination? Rachel Maddow Outs MSMs...

Norway massacre exposes incendiary immigration issue An un-American response to the Oslo attack Amid Bachmann controversy, many Christians cool to conversion therapy for gays Bachmann Predicted The World Would End In 2006: ‘We Are In The Last Days’ Austrian Man Wins Right To Wear Pasta Strainer In License Photo Sorry, O’Reilly: Anders Breivik Is A Christian 9/11 Settlement Doesn't Fully Address Ca...

First Study of Its Kind Shows Benefits of Providing Medical Insurance to Poor Stem cells restore eyesight to North Carolina woman, blind for 20 years due to an allergic reaction to chicken pox. She refuses to call it a "miracle", giving credit to science and medicine. The cowardice and intolerance of slapping a Darwin fish on your car bumper. Richard Wiseman's book Paranormality considered too sce...

Harrisburg Hoping God Can Help Balance the Books In U.S., 22% Are Hesitant to Support a Mormon in 2012 Atheists sue over bus ads on God-free lifestyle Senator Dan Coats Demands NBC Explain Its 'Under God' Omission From Pledge Of Allegiance Scientists hit back amid fresh death threats State Of The Ocean: 'Shocking' Report Warns Of Mass Extinction From Current Rate Of Marine Distress Strychnine for...

Tracy Morgan is an idiot The Sissy Experiment Bush tax cuts fail Depak Chopra video game Faith healing parents charged with neglect Peter Popoff scams people War on drugs is an epic fail Mass graves reported by psychic Guy kills two people and writes a check to get out of jail time.