Thom, thanks for doing new episodes this week while Stephanie Miller and Randi Rhodes are on vacation.

Hello Thom, in regards too the telemarking list you are correct with the phone number it is 888-382-1222, there is also a website, that you can go too instead of calling the number https://www.donotcall.gov/

Low info robocallers

You do such a good job of handling callers with low information, I figured you and your listeners might enjoy what happened to me with an actual robocall.

A couple of months ago I got a robocall from Dick Morris beginning with "having been identified as a prominent conservative" you have been selected to participate in this important poll. I was then told that after Dickie got through with his spiel, I would be asked who best represents conservativism. My choices included all of the usual suspects - Romney, Paul, Santorum, Bachman, Perry, Cain, and even Palin. But, I was also offered the choice of other. Therefore, I listened to the spiel and when a human returned to take my selection, I identified as the person who best represents conservative ideals as being Dwight David Eisenhower to which the caller responded "Who?"

I am new to the ways of on line discussions so my skills here are still rudimentary. Alwaysthemore (rather than nevertheless) I have been plagued by how it is that wealthy, well informed people seem to subscribe to a race to the bottom economic mentality that apparantly is egged on by religious fanatics mesmerized by the prospect of the second coming. How is it that seemingly rational intelligent people deny the evidence of climate change and ignore the apparant need for all the unaccounted externalities for all the products, services and phantoms of inefficiency that they successfully sell?

Well, I think I've grasped a postulate that explains this apparant congnitive distortion. The idea is that the hi ho wealthios paid attention to what Lester Brown predicted decades ago that the carrying capacity of our planet can only sustain less than 25% of the worlds current population. The thin upper crust of world society secretly believe that they will survive the coming apocalypse by living off mushrooms in deep caves and abandoned mineshafts. Or maybe the ability to graft bionic gills to humans is within technolgical reach so that survival in temperate aquatic environments will be possible for some.

So it might seem desirable for some to face the pandemic planetary devastation of the world as we know it with the hope that colonies of gated communities will some how survive. Moreover, a means must be developed whereby a mass die off of humanity can be achieved without incurring the baggage of guilt and shame that would come with it. What the hell! We will just blame it all on the weather!

Ironically, I wonder if the elite truly believe that they will be able to find happiness without the pleasure and distraction of all of their toys? Then again, if we can somehow survive the end of the Mayan calendar next year, the realization that we are about to lose a heaven on earth that civilization has taken for granted all these years will come to pass.

Then maybe we can all work together and try something to survive while maintaining our higher purpose of evolving humanity It's our burgeoning world population and robust gene pool, stupid!