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Some links to some great places...and why:

Monty Pelerin
One of the most unique and provocative  writers I've encountered in years. Not only is his identity a mystery, he calmly, factually lays it all out and, most importantly, with conclusions. His pseudonym: Monty Pelerin, taken from the place and borrowed from the Society of a similar name. Read his excellent "Confidence is A Con Man’s First Name And Government’s Last Scam" and other fine works here. The pod cast of our conversation here

"Spengler" aka...
Recent guest David P. Goldman writes a compelling account of Obama's strange disappearing labor force and how those Government stats telling you "all is well" is really a sack of crap and you are not going to be happy to read the real deal.
Read it -- then hear him talk with me about it.

James Miller
James Miller, Mises Institute/Canada was a bit nervous (first time on radio) but he is the only person yet whom I've seen writing about and connecting the dots to the FBI and it's sack 'o crap involvement in the sordid details of scaring the bejesus out of American citizens with trumped up "terrorist" events and politicians using the scam to ramp up your anxiety and taxes to expand government to "keep you safe". Problem is: who's going to keep you safe from this government?
James' very informative piece here
The pod cast is here

James Bovard
Couple of great pieces from friend James. One we haven't discussed (yet) on the 10th Anniversary of the TSA and one we did and the Government's concern for your happiness!

Scott Strzelczyk
Haven't gotten Mr. Strzelczyk on the show yet. No one want to venture how to pronounce his last name. Still, anyone who writes like this, needs to be on the show:
"Sadly, but unsurprisingly, Americans are deceived and manipulated, even lied to outright, by the very people who are supposed to represent them. Nearly every elected official offer scapegoats and straw man arguments to deceive and manipulate the very citizens they were elected to represent."


Till next time (sooner than last time)
BW

News You Can Use

Sunday morning 29 April 12

Whether you're into "citizen journalism" or rather watch YouTube vids, here is a superb article detailing what you or your activist, involved friends/colleagues need to know about pointing that Smart Phone at our Uniformed Public Servants.

Standing O

Got a minute? Check this out!

Helluva week

Two friends gone: Dick Clark and Brian Carter.

Everybody had something to say about Dick - probably because he touched so many lives in so many venues over the years. I was one who caught American Bandstand after school when they made the move to ABC-TV/NY. Years later, I'm working for WABC Radio (MusicRadio 77 WABC) doing AM Drive. Two years into the gig, the big change to TalkRadio 77 WABC. The last hour - 9 to 10, was devoted exclusively to guest interviews. Not too hard to get Big Name Guests on the 50KW blowtorch of Talk! Among the loooong list of people who came thru those doors, Dick Clark was singularly the most pleasant, professional, knowledgeable, interesting and genuinely friendly of them all.
While most of the memories are of the You Had To Be There variety, one thing illustrates the greatness and graciousness of the man: after every visit, he sent a Thank You note, personally hand-written that included some reference to something specific we talked about off the air. I still have those notes somewhere. You'll see them yourself -- when I get around to writing my illusive "memoirs".

Radio's a funny business. Lots of people come and go. At any station, you'll work closely with some, others hardly at all. Being the most nomadic profession, coming and going is just another part of the biz.
I think Brian Carter was already at B-104/Baltimore doing nights or overnights when I arrived in July '84 to do AM Drive. If memory serves, I nick-named Brian "BC" and, even if that part is wrong, I always referred to him as "my son", named after me because - hey! - where do you think "Brian" came from? From early on, I'd call him Son and he called me Dad. The fact there was a certain...discrepancy....in skin pigmentation made it that much more fun on the occasions we made appearances together.
My FaceBook page has his last msg to me dated April 5: "Happy Birthday, Pa".
We hadn't spoken in several years. Just that occasional b'day, holiday, whatever-day opportunity to toss a couple liners back and forth and enjoy the laugh.
The man was a great talent, a wonderful on and off-air personality. There was no one he didn't leave smiling. Even tho it was years ago and far away, B-104 gone and the troops who worked there  scattered, out of the business or, now, passed away, Radio has lost one of it's best way too soon. Being what it is, this business can make long-time friends in a very short time. I'm happy that BC made it to the Big Time and more listeners had the opportunity and pleasure to hear him. We didn't have as many years together as we had apart, but I'm proud to have known and worked with my son.

Wacky is ...

as wacky does!

Get out the tin foil hats!

Or......maybe not. "Tin foil hats", "conspiracy theory wack-o's", all terms of derisoon to marginalize the message and intimidate the consumer.
But what if.....?


And, most importantly,
what are the facts?

An acquaintance ...

An acquaintance has a clip of Gordon Gecko/Michael Douglas soliciting viewers to call the DOJ if they suspect financial hanky-panky on Wall Street.
The acquaintance posits: "I don't know whether this makes us laugh or cry"

My response:

“Laugh or Cry”?

I opt to cry.

Running to the Government for every problem’s solution is a one-way street: No return.

Greed is an emotive code word; semantically crafted to instill guilt, shame, forced altruism, to garner social acceptance of the Politically Correct and self-appointed Annointed and fuel the politics of envy.

Greed is impossible to define without unqualified, unjustified judging, subjective imposition of standards and practices that may not be – and usually aren’t - compatible with the principles and ideals of a Free Market.

The worst punishment, misdirected legislation, government imposition floats in on the tears of some “victim” who “lost it all” to some scurrilous Gecko. Invariably, it was the “victim’s” failure to Due Diligence or simply fail to seriously heed the warning “If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is”. There Bad Guys out there. Always have been; always will be. And when they do bad things, occasionally they get arrested and prosecuted (if they don’t have sufficient political collateral).

Most likely, they are really “victims” of the simple fact: One cannot enjoy Freedom  and Liberty without exercising Personal Responsibility for his choices and actions.

Or, as Tom Sowell wrote: “It’s not necessarily what is “best”; it’s who gets to decide what’s best.”

You are the Boss of You. Who do you want deciding what’s “best”?