Bonus Episode, July 8, 2014

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An AZ State professor is offering her students extra credit to shave their legs and armpits (if male) and not shave (if female) to test societal norms.  Cenk asks who would take the challenge.  Lissette thinks having hair is disgusting, but she’d do it for the extra credit.  Cenk admits that he’d also do it and tells stories of an ex-girlfriend that made him shave his body hair.  He also talks about how he’s tempted to get rid of some of his arm hair so that he can see his new muscle definition in his biceps from working out.

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The Young Turks, July 8, 2014

The Young Turks: July 08, 2014

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Lissette Padilla joins Cenk for SCS.  After the Conservative trolling phenomenon of Coal Rolling has gotten popular to spite environmentalists, the EPA responded by pointing out that it is illegal to do.  A Conservative American woman decided to troll Liberals by taking a picture of herself holding a gun and the Bible while standing in front of an American flag.  Someone responded by posting a picture of an apparent radical Muslim woman holding a machine gun and the Koran.  The similarities are overwhelming.  A baseball fan at a Red Sox game fell asleep and was caught on camera, allowing the ESPN announcers to rib him a little.  In response, the fan is suing ESPN for 10 million dollars for damages.  A nurse was found guilty of having sex with the corpse of an 82 year old woman that had just died of natural causes.  Discussion of why this is illegal when the person is dead. DC Comics has refused to allow a deceased 5 year old boy to wear the Superman logo for a fundraising campaign to give him a statue donned in the Superman outfit.  A remote controlled birth control device is being developed.  It would be controlled by a patient’s doctor and be turned off, on, or adjusted.  Discussion about the potential downsides. A man started a Kickstarter to get funding for him to make a potato salad, that he’s never made.  He has raised over $50,000 already.  A company developed a device that is inserted into a woman’s vagina that tracks a woman’s kegel exercise performance and vibrates to reward her. Show notes by Jayar Jackson Hour 2 Source Articles: Sign up for The Young Turks daily source articles email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/PLlqD Dude Who Fell Asleep During Yankees Game Suing MLB, ESPN For $10 Million http://goo.gl/X8WRJ8 Meet The FitBit For Your Lady Parts That Uses Vibration As A Reward http://goo.gl/jq5I48 Woman’s Attempt To Troll Liberals Backfires When Someone Notices This Disturbing Similarity http://goo.gl/3Qoe3K

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Cenk hosting today.  Democratic Sen Robert Menendez was facing reelection and as a Cuban American, has been harshly against the Cuban government and in favor of our sanctions on them.  The Cuban gov’t decided to smear him and leak fake stories about him soliciting underaged foreign prostitutes.  After the FBI investigated the case, they found that the women/prostitutes were lying and the entire story was fake.  ABC News was approached with the story by Republican operatives, but rejected it when they smelled a fake.  The conservative Daily Caller was the source that bought the lie and reported it.  Cenk dismantles and exposes a Politico article that hatcheted Harry Reid and supported the Koch Brothers. After the influx of illegal immigrants into America has made news, and Republicans attacked, President Obama has reacted by asking for an extra $3.7 billion to be allocated to DHS to take care of the problem.  They’ve also decided to accelerate deportations.  Cenk is frustrated by Obama’s immediate caving to Republicans, which will get him nowhere again.  Republican governor of Kansas, Sam Brownback has taken a surplus he received from the last Democratic governor and cut taxes for the richest and businesses.  When the costs for the state went from $105 million to $800 million, the state has suffered with less jobs and a huge loss of revenue, causing the state to cut public education.  Kansas’ Revenue Secretary claimed that this happened because of President Obama’s failed economic policy of over regulation and increased taxes. The increasing tensions in Israel are spilling over again.  Israeli airstrikes have begun, with citizens being dismantled by the bombings.  Netanyahu has told the IDF to take the gloves off with Hamas. Show notes by Jayar Jackson Hour 1 Source Articles: Sign up for The Young Turks daily source articles email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/PLlqD Behind Harry Reid’s war against the Koch brothers http://goo.gl/ahJ8IS Yes, if You Cut Taxes, You Get Less Tax Revenue http://goo.gl/cAy6Az Israel vows 'lengthy' offensive in Gaza http://goo.gl/INO51W Obama Asks for $3.7 Billion to Aid Border http://goo.gl/jRjysn

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