I've been super busy the past few weeks. But I've got a free night so I'm going to upload a few episodes. I've capped almost all of them so don't worry they'll be up eventually. (I did miss an episode on the 14th I think it was. DVR failure.) Anyway keep an eye out 'cause they're still coming.


TONIGHT ON THE INDEPENDENTS (written by Matt Welch, taken from Reason)
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Who doesn't love Reason Writer/Producer extraordinaire Anthony L. Fisher? We don't, that's who, which is why the baseball-loving semi-ginger will be one-half of a Red Meat Wednesday of a Party Panel (along with TV's Andy Levy), on tonight's swell episode of The Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT, with re-airs three hours later). Andy & Anthony will opine on Jimmy Carter's diss of President Barack Obama's ISIS strategy, on former Obama advisor Bill Burton's diss on the smack-talking Leon Panetta, on the phantasmagorical claim by Rep. Duncan Hunter, Jr., (R-San Diego) that "at least" 10 ISIS baddies have crossed north through the U.S.-Mexico border, and also that horrendously violent seatbelt-stop in Indiana blogged here yesterday.  

The great Yahoo! News political reporter Chris Moody will discuss the surprisingly prominent position that drug-reform policy will play in the 2016 GOP presidential race, subject of his latest piece. Former Secret Service official Jeff Stover will detail the governmental breakdowns that led to his former agency screwing up so many damn times. Conservative enfant horrible Jason Mattera will talk about his new book Crapitalism: Liberals Who Make Millions Swiping Your Tax Dollars, and also his stalking of Lois Lerner. And the show is now making "Enemies of Freedom" a weekly affair, with our first Wednesday nominee.


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Ripped with the Diamond VC500. Using the software that came packaged with the dongle. (It's called EZ Ripper.) In that software there's a "DVD Standard" which rips the video to .mpg at 720x480 with some terrible black bars. I load that file into AVIDemux. Cut the file into multiple parts to remove the commercials. Rejoin, crop, and resize those files using the same tool. For conversion I used MPEG4 AVC (x264), 2 pass on video and AAC (faac) on audio.

I am not part of the scene. I just admire their naming standards.

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