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enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just. not with your mobile devices you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. welcome back to the big picture on tom hartman coming up in this half hour for hundreds of years navigators look to the stars to determine their location and to provide direction and turn the arrival of animals to the very same thing today i'll tell you about one of the internet's geeky science and imagine your school put in you're going to school when you're assault rifle in your locker and instead of having first period english having first period gun safety may sound crazy but in the gun. well the world of wayne la pierre and his fellow gun this would be the

typical school day in america. all about it tonight. here take my take it live our phone lines are now open so if you want to share an opinion make a comment challenge me to a debate duels don't work on television or ask a question live on the air give us a call a two hour tonight show for twenty one thirty four by the way for our los angeles viewers i'll be at the l.a. press club steve allen theater saturday after two pm for years for more information on that you can go to k p f a dot org the radio station is picking up our show starting next week now time for the first color of the night in chicago hey what's up. with the much enjoyed the show tonight i want to call a comment on oscar to use. stance on. the belief in the

create jobs. the question is that what billionaire accumulate wealth without the exploitation of the labor class basically is by people sell their labor or coerced into selling their labor or did the c.e.o. of the company turn labor in the production of their labor. into by selling the i saw the goods for more time to work with the paper people to make them so basically billion is acutely by exploiting people yep. i don't disagree with that all ok thanks a lot for the call and thanks for making the point in fact let me add a punctuation mark to that and i should mention this in the set up with austin i have a friend is worth a couple hundred million dollars and it's really well i've known this guy for years and he will he literally clips coupons he will argue with cab drivers about oh you took me a block out. the way it's going to cost me extra fifteen cents he's got millions

hundreds of millions and it's like at what point do you say and he's miserable and that to me that's that's something that needs to be treated and when that becomes billions and tens of billions and hundreds of billions and then people like that try to change our laws in our tax policy to screw the rest of us they can get even more money for their money bins then i think that it's actually a mental illness is destructive to all of us and mike in janesville wisconsin hey mike what's up. there do you mean. the fire form is light. always powerful. one can make himself right whether we like it or not but we have too much government and our government at this time is a. government. nepotism look at the bush one second look at the

kennedy one of. those people were elected mike they didn't appoint each other i don't disagree that there is corruption in our government and if you want to talk about and thanks for the call the point if you want to talk about for example the military industrial complex the revolving door the people leaving congress and going into lobbying or going in to trade associations billy tauzin pushing through medicare part d. and then going to work for pharma for millions of dollars a year you know i don't disagree with you that a lot of corruption there we did a lot about that after watergate and a lot of those laws have been done in the years since then particularly during the reagan administration so we need to do something about that on the other hand i would say in many regards our government isn't big enough our government represents about twenty one percent of our g.d.p. canada is over fifty percent if we had a national health care system if we had a good social safety net we could have the quality of life of canadians or in

pretty much all the european countries there in the neighborhood of fifty percent so in my opinion our government is not big enough although i would agree with you in the area certainly a bizarre defense establishment charmaine and for donia new york charmaine thanks for calling what's up oh thank you for having me just a couple of things. like bipartisan congress i thought we were at the united states the united congress in can we demand the resignation of the speaker of the house is there a way to do that because i don't think that jobs are getting done second there was a product let me take these one of the time if i may. of all. tri partisan you have bernie sanders and joe lieberman well joe's leaving the bernie sanders is a democratic socialist he's not a member of a political party so bipartisan implies that there should only be two parties i think that we need to have in saronno voting and go beyond those two parties right

united there you go right one other thing in buffalo new york back in the eighty's when the exxon. leaked a little oil there was a product made by a friend of virus use a biochemist and what she would do is literally sprayed on oil it would bubble off picked it up look like popcorn melt it down get a hundred percent of the oil and a hundred percent of the product it was a millionaire rip billionaire out canada that purchased that hat now expires millionaires and billionaires go for you they are not useful because that product would have saved jobs are being fired in everything i got but thank you somebody who pulled it out there is a startling number i can't speak to that particular one but there actually is a startling number of patents that have been products that have been patented and taken then out of production because they compete with existing technology is not

a good thing mike in champaign illinois like. me. but i've never heard you guys talk about feedback projects for a. couple of years late back back in the late ninety's and well actually i've been doing the show since two thousand and two. since the first couple of years i used to talk about the neck all the time because the war in iraq was they they wrote the letter in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight by the way signed by don rumsfeld and and and. bush jeb bush signed it this is the project for a new american century. and what they said was we need to invade iraq right now and take their oil and surprise we did of course it took jeb bush who signed a brother becoming president but yeah and and it was done.

early ninety's surely it was ninety eight that they sent that letter to bill clinton asking him to invade iraq and you know used to be their web site was still up i haven't looked in the last year or so i think most of those guys are considered crackpots are largely irrelevant now but mike thanks for bringing it up thanks for making the point it's so easy for things to fall down the memory hole and we really need to remember the history of the war in iraq larry in calmar iowa hey larry. you want to talk about climate change. yeah but first was that austin peter. fox talk show host or something. i think believes what he says god bless him i have a lot of respect for people even with whom i strongly disagree who believe what they say and these libertarians who think that if only there was no government if only the billionaires ran the show if only the multi-millionaires the job creators made life wonderful we'd live in

a paradise. i disagree but they'll start about climate change look look what. guys have done to our climate over the last industrial revolution and i think you're in deep doo doo and it's already through the family. wall i mean. a lot faster than i what. i never thought it would when i was with james hansen back in the seventy's. and god bless him hansen's been talking about it for a long long time larry thanks for bringing the topic up this this is something if you want to really really. wake yourself up on this a few other people use the duck duck go machine it's my favorite search engine duck duck go dot com and the google machine or whatever and look for permian extinction b.b.c. b.b.c. four did a eight hour documentary on the permian extinction that is damn frightening larry

larry we just talked with sally in queens new york a salad hi tom thanks for the work you do to appreciate the show you know i want to bring up a point about i never hear anything about you know monopolization and how the antitrust laws have protected over the last twenty or so years now you can allow to profitable companies you know gobble each other up and shriek workforces and therefore control salaries and be able to keep salaries down and don't allow for lateral movement i'm an industry the competent astri and we've seen it go from three hundred fifty copy mills of the eighty's to three that control eighty seven said to the industry and it cuts out lateral movement and controls salaries and it actually keeps people down and in essence you know you have cooperations groups ceo's control the company and it's all about the profit for the c.e.o. and feet and then they start raising the prices and then eventually even take it

overseas sal you're absolutely right and thank you for bringing it up in fact my my wife says that on my tombstone it's going to say it all began with the reagan that are see i told you i was sick. somebody's got that i think but and i actually have a website where i have the u.r.l. it all started with reagan dot com in one thousand nine hundred two ronald reagan stopped and. in the sherman antitrust act and we had this explosion of merger and acquisition activities jimmy carter the president before him was that you know ending breaking up eighteen he was the last to actually enforce the sherman act and ever since then no president has had the courage or whatever to take on these big corporations marc in san bernadino we have just a minute left here mark quickly. i you do it to expand the show i just wanted to refer to the caller earlier i was talking about nepotism then i guess it escapes most people that most of these people they're empowered they're blood related that if a dick cheney's wife wrote a book about dick cheney and were obama being the first president as well as bush.

cousins actually right right exactly so what i'm saying is there is a bike that i don't want to buy conspiracy theories but now it's very fishy to me mark you and i really probably are probably cousins if we push too far enough you know at some level you know it's the fifth eighth tenth fourteenth you know but i do get it with the bush family dynasty and the kennedy family dynasty it does it does creep out a lot of us but you know so livvy that's it for my take like your take your take my take live thanks for all your calls if we didn't get your call tonight my apologies try again next week. after the break what with a typical school day look like in america listen to the n.r.a. and the rest of the gun nuts on the far right i'll tell you all about it and tonight's daily take. our.

least so. it's. the old. technology innovation all these developments from around russia. since you've covered.

it's thursday let's get geeky on some dung beetles in the animal kingdom there are a few creatures as interesting as the dung beetle dung beetles are primarily known for scale of a gene in desert environments for animal droppings and rolling those droppings into a ball and stashing them away someplace and then eventually eating them well now dung beetles might become known for something else than eating other animals leftovers scientists have discovered the dung beetles may be the first insects at least so far that we found to use the band of light that stretches across the middle of the night sky in the summer of the milky way to orient themselves as they

roll their balls of animal ways to around in the desert a study conducted by the south african scientist dr reid was reported in the journal current biology dung beetles like to run in straight lines and when they fire defined by a live animal droppings they shape it into a small ball and start pushing that ball away to a safe place where they can eat it to accomplish this task getting a good burying is crucial because if the beetle doesn't roll of the ball on a direct course it may end up travelling back to where it started or other beetles will try to steal the stash to determine whether or not dung beetles guide themselves with help from the milky way dr jack e. took the beatles into a planetarium where she could control the type of star fields that the beatles would see overhead she put the beatles in a container with a blacked out wall and ceiling to be sure that the beatles were not using information from landmarks of the horizon which in the wild could mean trees or

rocks the beatles were still able to go about their normal business when a perfect starry night sky was projected on to the planetarium dome. but performed just as well when they were shown only the diffuse bar of light that is the plane of our milky way galaxy and while it appears the dung beetles do indeed look to the milky way for guidance it's still not known how they accomplish this feat dr jack he points out the dung beetles like crabs have compound eyes and crabs have the ability to see some of the brightest stars in the sky so it's possible the dung beetles have that same ability although it's not certain but when dung beetles are shown just a few bright stars they get quickly lost so it's not just the compound i says it's helping the beatles orient themselves now the question. becomes. how many other animals might be able to use the light from the milky way to help in night time navigation so next time you're out driving at night in the middle of nowhere forget

about getting directions from the g.p.s. on your dashboard and give the milky way galaxy a try. just. it's the good the bad of the very very macro ron appears silly ugly the good geoffrey stone stone a professor of law at the university of chicago submitted a statement to congress yesterday statement signed by over fifty of america's most distinguished constitutional law professors and scholars all are agreement that despite what many on the far right say congress has more than enough authority under the constitution to enact legislation aimed at reducing gun violence at america's best and brightest constitutional scholars say it's legal sarat save american lives by creating sensible gun control measures it's time for congress to act regardless of what the n.r.a.

and the gun nuts are trying to say. the bad idea host state senator cheryl knox. next all took to twitter to voice their opposition toward obamacare. in her tweet she compared obamacare to believe it or not the holocaust doxil said that quote insurance companies are creating their own tomb much like the jews boarded the train to concentration camps private insurers are used by the feds to put the system in place because the federal government has no way to set up the exchange. for comments aside mrs knox will clearly doesn't understand the purpose of obamacare is to help millions of americans gain access to affordable and lifesaving health care. not before. and the very very ugly some idiot in tennessee elma pit bull was saved from being put to death today at a kill shelter in tennessee after his owner abandoned him after coming to the conclusion that elton was gay. the owner apparently knows the dog hunched over

another male dog and thought that meant it was almost actual dog however if the owner had bothered to do any research he or she would have realized that animal experts say that a male dog other male dog is usually a sign of dominance sex well it's great that elton was saved this is a sickening example of how deep the problem phobia runs in america the appalling ignorance of this dog's owner showed and his blatant homophobia as no place in our modern society and both are very fair. if we listen to wayne la pierre and the n.r.a. and the rest of the gun nuts on the far right about how to make our schools safer

from gun violence and actually pass legislation they've supported. that a typical school day would look something like this. to begin with all those gun free zone signs be taken down there replaced with signs the read gun friendly zone the simple change immediately alerts would be suicidal maniacs that this is their place. the n.r.a. school shield program fully implemented schoolchildren will walk on to campus past rows of armed security guards at first the big men in body armor with powerful something automatic assault rifles might be a little frightening to kindergartners first and second graders but eventually the kids are going to get used to these bushmaster toting sentinels understanding that this posse of guards is the first line of defense keeping them safe while they learn their a.b.c.'s case arizona sheriff joe arpaio is armed posse because

a few members actually have criminal backgrounds to be extra keen into their insight into how the criminal mind works and how to stop potential mass shooters inside the school faculty with locks on their belts rushed kids along to first period before the morning bell rings first graders don't want to be late to first period as the new law requires them to take the country in classes. school begins in their teacher also armed with a gun as our custom made any shooters all the kids they were not allowed to go on how to aim how to shoot for the kill zone they have to do this because just in case a bad guy with a gun takes out the security guard then the armed faculty than the armed teacher it will be up to a class around seventy seven year old good guys with guns to take him out as you can see the n.r.a. has masterfully put in place layers and layers of security school. then the

second period math class begins mr griswold was up late the night before grading papers in arguing with his wife about their personal finances he's also dealing with impotence issues but it's cool he feels much more masculine with a log six shooter in his pocket he gives his students their lesson plan but endless chatter in the back of the classroom distracts it so i pulls his gun out of his pocket. sets it on the desk. students get the point. media to quiet down but they all feel safe knowing that mr griswold is their guardian angel for the next forty five minutes with the one. in between second and third period news spreads that biology teacher mr duncan accidentally shot himself through the palm of his and he was using the butt of his pistol to try and kill a cockroach when the gun went off you'll be ok though these kind of things happen the whole time during lunchtime little zack and philip got into a shoving match over a game of four square school administrators rushed to the scene with their guns

drawn just in case and zach and philip realized that they were surrounded with weapons pointed at them they backed away from each other slowly the disturbances resolved in the school is once again safe. quiet peaceful unfortunately the school library there was another incident to high school seniors got into a scuffle over a cheerleader one was flirting with being eighteen years old in the us legally allowed to clear carry their own handguns on campus or one of the students pulled out his gun to stand his ground and protect himself from a punch in the head by the guy by the other guy it fires wildly around the library the other student returns fire there are both hit by bullets so two or three innocent bystanders luckily no one is killed but the ambulances have to take five kids to the hospital but hey all those new medical bills to help increase the g.d.p. . but just imagine how much worse it would be if those kids weren't armed and another

adam lanza walked into that library. just have your fifth period begins a five year old kindergartener billy takes a bathroom break is not old enough for the gun safety training class in first grade so when he sees a gun on the bathroom sink left behind by one of the school security guards yeah that happened in michigan last week immediately picks it up and starts to play with it which is like as n.r.a. sponsored a ar fifteen shaped ten lunchbox that he brings to school every morning he waves it around points of his face squeezes the greater he didn't know the gun was loaded cocked. in response to the tragedy the n.r.a. and the school worked together on a solution to prevent this from happening again they decide the best thing to do is to start gun training classes at a younger age he was seven after all so that kindergartners can get involved to. seventh period begins and the school children are eager to go home the gun toting

teachers and faculty have. rather frayed nerves by this point they're ready for a break to american history class but the students can't watch any films about the civil war vietnam or iraq or afghanistan or even world war two we can't learn from that stuff because the n.r.a. has told us that those violent films could potentially trigger violent attitudes class also all images of violence have been removed from the textbooks. necessary to keep the kids safe. finally the bell rings and everybody rushes out of the school past the armed guards and into the welcoming arms of their armed parents it was safety at school as not a single madman was able to carry out a mass murder when third grader jimmy gets the school bus he rushes into his mom's arms she asks him what happened at school today he tells her about mr duncan's wounded and in the five people shot the librarian what happened poor little billy

who shot himself the face of the boy's bathroom but she hugs your song tight knowing that he's the n.r.a. wayne la pierre and the school's cache of guns did their job keeping mass shooters at bay for the day and isn't that what's most important. and that's the way it is that i had thursday january thirty first twenty thirty more information on any of the stories we covered visit our website to tom arbonne dot com free speech dot org dot com and if you missed anything i show you can watch it from h.d. on hulu at hulu dot com slash big picture also check out our two you tube channels there are links of thom hartmann dot com also. check out all the different ways you can send us your feedback and don't forget democracy begins with you. yeah you. get out there and occupies that get active occupy the democratic party your

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