Left Side of the Aisle #186

YouTube is still not letting me share videos so I can't embed the show.

The URL for the video, should you care to watch rather than read the segments, is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTBumPr6w5E&list=UU31ZArK0ZQieJGcj9IO52wA

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of December 18-24, 2014

This week:

Good News: NRA loses one
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/15/surgeon-general-vote_n_6329884.html
https://twitter.com/vivek_murthy/status/258393687871074304

Everything You Need To Know: about why cops get away with murder
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/25/1347371/-All-police-shootings-are-assaults-on-law-enforcement-in-Ferguson-grand-jury

Things I Never Thought I'd Say: proud of Nancy Pelosi
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/15/1351990/-Dick-Cheney-I-have-no-problem-using-torture-program-against-innocent-persons
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/cenk-uygur-rails-at-orwellian-prck-cleveland-cop-for-christs-sake-be-a-human-for-a-second/

Subhuman Scum of the Year Award: and the two nominees are....
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/15/1351990/-Dick-Cheney-I-have-no-problem-using-torture-program-against-innocent-persons
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/cenk-uygur-rails-at-orwellian-prck-cleveland-cop-for-christs-sake-be-a-human-for-a-second/

And Another Thing: why Christmas is on December 25
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_days
http://www.religioustolerance.org/winter_solstice0.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/winter_solstice1.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20110430004539/http://www.bsu.edu/web/01bkswartz/xmaspub.html
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/news/2000/dec08.html
http://christianity.about.com/od/christmas/f/christmashistor.htm
http://people.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/lactant/lactpers.html#XLVIII
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/24/the_real_history_of_the_war_on_christmas/
http://religions.pewforum.org/reportshttp://www.whychristmas.com/customs/25th.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great_and_Christianityhttp://mith.umd.edu//eada/html/display.php?docs=bradford_history.xml
http://www.historytoday.com/chris-durston/puritan-war-christmas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitsun
http://masstraveljournal.com/places/boston-cambridge/when-christmas-was-banned-boston
http://historyofmassachusetts.org/when-christmas-was-banned-in-boston/
http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/index.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanukah
http://festivusweb.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_(Doctor_Who)
"The Christmas Connection," lecture at Plymouth Antiquarian Society, Plymouth, MA, November 15, 1979