Joe Conservative wakes up in the morning and goes to the bathroom. He flushes his toilet and brushes his teeth, mindful that each flush & brush costs him about 43 cents to his privatized water provider. His wacky, liberal neighbor keeps badgering the company to disclose how clean and safe their water is, but no one ever finds out. Just to be safe, Joe Conservative boils his drinking water.

Joe steps outside and coughs–the pollution is especially bad today, but the smokiest cars are the cheapest ones, so everyone buys ‘em. Joe Conservative checks to make sure he has enough toll money for the 3 different private roads he must drive to work. There is no public transportation, so traffic is backed up and his 10 mile commute takes an hour.

Hour One - Guest: Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org  Topic: Should women rule the world?

Hour Two - Guest: Former U.S. Border Patrol Officer Zack Taylor www.nafbpo.org Topic: Is it worth killing jaguars to keep the "brown people" out?

Guest: U.S. Congressman(D-NY, 7th district) Joe Crowley www.crowley.house.gov Topic: Economy and Recovery Rebate Checks...you might not want to spend them just yet

Hour Three - Topic: Should we use the 5th anniversary of "Mission Accomplished" to investigate the Bush Administration war crimes?

Guest: Christy Harvey www.americanprogress.org   Topic: News under the radar

• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
• Racism.
• Rush Limbaugh calling for riots and beatings in Denver.
• Justice Scalia: "get over it.".
• Hardening of sides within the Democratc Party.
• What's the filter through which we view society?

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

Hour One - Who arranged for for Rev Wright's appearance at the Press Club? Photo from the National Press Club's website and outed in a story by Errol Louis in today's NY Daily News, captioned: "Rev. Wright gets the inside story from Rev. Barbara A. Reynolds, the Speakers Committee member who organized the Wright breakfast. (Photo by John Metelsky)" According to Louis' article, Reynolds' website said that: "'My vote for Hillary in the Maryland primary was my way of saying thank you' to Clinton and her husband for the successes of Bill Clinton's presidency."

Hour Two - Guest: Governor Don Siegelman www.donsiegelman.org Topic: Will this finally get Karl Rove frogmarched out of the White House (or out of Texas) in chains?

Hour Three - Why Obama should agree to a "Lincoln-Douglas" type debate.

Barack Obama has been challenged by Hillary Clinton to a "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate. That particular debate had very specific rules - each side had an hour to speak, followed by an hour and a half rebuttal, followed by a half-hour closing speech. The rules of the debate would hugely favor an orator like Obama, and he'd be brilliant to take up Clinton on her challenge.

His doing this now will break the news cycle out of Rev. Wright - and will refocus this election on his topics.

Thom's Travel & Events Coming Up…May 3 - 5:00 - 9:00 pm - Coquille: Coos County Democrats - Coquille Community - 115 N Birch, Coquille (map) Thom Hartmann, Bill Bradbury, Joanne Verger, Steven Novick, Arnie Roblan and others. Tickets $25