The stupid is strong.

A caller at the end of the 1st hour said TPP will cause our cancer rate to shoot up because of the uranium in coal burned by China. He is thinking qualitatively, not quantitatively. The amount of extra uranium that we in the U.S. would inhale would probably be tiny and not significantly affect cancer rates. Around 1900, skies were black with coal soot, and a species of moth changed colors because of the natural selection of camouflage, but I doubt you'd find a decent amount of uranium in the body of any person from that era.

There are plenty of much bigger reasons to reject the TPP: jobs, wages, environmental destruction, loss of sovereignty.

Finally the Progressive Wing of the party is waking up and taking action to regain control of their party. I accessed the DLC's website ten years ago, before it was taken down, and found a list of it's charter members that included Hillary and Bill ! There was some evidence at the time that Billionaire George Soros was directly involved with this group. As a long time progressive Democrat, I've been writing and posting on this situation for years but long time Democrat voters continued to have a single image of the party that is directly tied to the New Deal. You would have thought that the average Democrat voter would have woken up after over twenty years of majority Neoliberal influence over their party !

To give a short, oversimplified definition: Neoliberalism is a small-state economic ideology based on promoting "rational self-interest" through policies such as privatization, deregulation, globalization and significant tax cuts for the wealthy.

Obama has proven to be just an extension of that influence. I would have thought that the Liberal Wing of the party would have responded by now but they remain fixated on their specific agendas that have had little to no real support from the moneyed interests who own Washington unless it can be manipulated and altered to directly benefit them. We've ignored the problem of private money controlling our government for way too long, surely someone had to be concerned over the rapidly declining standard of living that has been accelerating for over twenty five years ! Bernie is the first Democrat to risk his political career by pointing out that it's way past time to stop digging the hole we find ourselves in today !

Thom, your show suffers from painful cognitive dissonnance in this regard. Sit back and try to reconcile the forceful language you use in your blog above, with the "omerta" you recognize in regard to criticisms of Clinton, the crony of the DNC hucksters. We have to nominate Bernie Sanders, and that requires tough talk.

Evil’s Clients

{ … a rhyme and 2 photos …}

In this early morning’s silence,

I think ‘bout America’s violence

by Evil’s clients

who act in defiance

of civility’s reliance

on everyone’s compliance

with civility’s rules of good will.

The path to Peace is uphill.

… … … …

Among Clients of Evil:

So-called-“Christian” Militias,

for instance at the Bundy Ranch -

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This kind of predatory policy was written about by Dr. Charles McVety President of the Canada Christian College in 2013 in the "Canadian Times" http://www.canadiantimes.ca/ct2/index.php/columnists/543-conservative-bu...

Then in November of 2014, the same horrendous and theft oriented policy was adopted at the G20 in Brisbane.

In Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography "No Ordinary Time", FDR actually states free trade to be one of his goals for after the war. There's a little more overlap with him and the DLC than Thom realizes.

Sorry! Sadly! Any one that tried to change american politics got assasinated

What does that tell us all???

Who rules?

Thom, you’re surprised that establishment Democrats are less than thrilled with Bernie’s success?! You apparently don’t need me to tell you that establishment Democrats = CORPORATE Democrats!! I could have predicted these dynamics eons ago. And Al From is obviously a sell-out like the rest of these establishment hacks.

You’re damn right we’re sick and tired of “Clinronite” corporatists running the country! I would think you would be tired of that bullshit too. Yet you’ve continued cutting off anyone who calls into your show, criticizing Hillary Clinton. Do you want a political revolution or not?!

KNEEL BEFORE THOM!! ;)

I wonder how much of that conspiracy theory is left after you take out the myths of alien abductions. It seems obvious to me that they come from the rare physiological error in which someone wakes up in some ways but stays asleep in others.

During sleep your conscious mind is separated from your bodily control--you're paralyzed. If your eyes open and you become lucid while this is happening, it would certainly be terrifying and might seem like it must have been caused from without, since we have to be told how sleep works. Ignorance of one's own biology is detrimental.

With the dream still running and the eyes now gathering images, many people perceive the "aliens" as walking through the walls. This would be a common occurrence given the half-sleep state, since dreams often involve other people, and we rarely walk backward. Therefore, people in dreams approach. It's merely the double exposure (two overlapping streams of input) that makes these dream people appear to walk through walls. You can make similar optical illusions by giving your two eyes very different things to watch.

So why do the dream people seem to be aliens? First, they may appear grey because the low light at night removes the ability to see color. I'd have to presume that the dream then matches that, since dreams are easily influenced by exterior suggestion (e.g. I'm sure we've all had suffocation nightmares caused by getting into a bad posture in bed). Next, the aliens may appear to have large eyes, because the dream doesn't show us realistic images, but rather shows us what would be stored in memory, and eyes are what you pay attention to most on a person's face. Being half-conscious distorts this into perceiving stronger information as larger. The lack of hair, etc. may be due to the dream not filling in all the blanks--its version of a stick figure.

Sometimes "abductees" say they see a bright light, which has always been portrayed as a spotlight in reenactments I've seen. This may be a phenomenon similar to the tunnel vision experienced by people in high-g situations and people that nearly die (the "light at the end of the tunnel" that they misinterpret as the path to heaven). I'm not sure why this would happen, unless a re-disconnection of the pre-frontal cortex from the rest of the brain mimics this. Such a disconnection would happen after the dream of approaching people, which would likely mark the end of REM sleep, and therefore a deepening of sleep. Changing sleep modes (like rebooting a computer) could correct the error of semi-consciousness. And since the dream abruptly ends, the "abductee" feels like they've had their memories erased, when in actuality it's more like the end of a movie--there simply isn't any more story.

We have to change the system where such a nowhere state has so much pull. I was working on the Illinois side but staying on the Iowa side in 2008 and it was madness.

I think Thom might be on to something here. We just had a election in Canada and the Liberil Party won with a very left candidate, to a party that was always middle of the road. (we have more than two parties). He won by promising to out spend the other parties. Watching Bernie promise to spend, spend, spend I think you may have a winner in him. With the younger generation that grew up in a world of entitlement this is what they want and expect. I am very lucky I grew up at a time when the government let you keep most of your money. I sincerely believe those days are over.