tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616324825828353642024-03-12T21:57:20.316-04:00Now This...Brian Wilson SpeaksBrian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.comBlogger704125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-63774329979821861032024-03-05T20:41:00.003-05:002024-03-05T20:41:26.935-05:00NFSCD -- The Two and Only -- Brian Wilson and James Bovard S3 Ep 10<p> Say the name Duncan Lemp.</p><p><a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14596773">Listen here.</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDKB337Y5gY7BOzTRJx6s3mAj-lK5LbCjc6NtJ8GGbYO5Ir5BZHyae5yAyl0ERyKctlxmGRaZBaZR4UeI6gI0mvTNnx5FWSpEneQi2AHRYCBLkPvUn7J9oEeunCqg1t4ygDxODUiZ6Kq7RMvLZvV1Gvjvlm26F9JVfDW6yg7VECPXAwutY4JsZzOVIn8/s173/orwell.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="173" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDKB337Y5gY7BOzTRJx6s3mAj-lK5LbCjc6NtJ8GGbYO5Ir5BZHyae5yAyl0ERyKctlxmGRaZBaZR4UeI6gI0mvTNnx5FWSpEneQi2AHRYCBLkPvUn7J9oEeunCqg1t4ygDxODUiZ6Kq7RMvLZvV1Gvjvlm26F9JVfDW6yg7VECPXAwutY4JsZzOVIn8/s1600/orwell.png" width="173" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;">Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Today and The New York Post and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/James-Bovard/author/B000AQ3XJE?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">11 books</a>, including his most recent -- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty/dp/B0CP8LFDXB/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;">Last Rights, The Death of American Rights</em></a>. Find out more on his website and follow him on Twitter/X <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBovard" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">@JimBovard</a>. <br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.brianwilson.net/p/about-brian-wilson.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Brian Wilson</a> is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on <a href="https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Substack</a> and his <a href="http://www.brianwilson.net/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">website</a>. On Facebook, check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonspeaks" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Brian's page</a> along with his<a href="https://www.facebook.com/50Storiesbook" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank"> 50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio</a> page and of course, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonpodcast" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Now For Something Completely Different</a> Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Wilson/author/B071S2LB7Z?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-43805259863578790062024-02-28T17:28:00.001-05:002024-02-28T17:28:26.394-05:00NFSCD -- The Two and Only S3 Ep9 -- Brian Wilson and James Bovard<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">This episode is required listening! Do you drive, travel or think you actually own something? <a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14596773">The Two and Only, Brian Wilson and Jim Bovard</a> explain why not and why why not.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGvUa6tH6upFIKxhGJcYE0wSTbtNB24YWBb3OlETGaZuPF6AFF_xjOTMr4Ah4wiAUzHrl6ySa4QjZivd02pUTMz2pRuP11KHBpPYGp8GfXyZq6mnHhOr0kkRd0T3FxsvKPzhYNkkM5zkZQswofU8o0AUjqzKr3Ld1fPzCERSinp7g_zMc2zGGndfdbLQ/s534/grab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="534" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGvUa6tH6upFIKxhGJcYE0wSTbtNB24YWBb3OlETGaZuPF6AFF_xjOTMr4Ah4wiAUzHrl6ySa4QjZivd02pUTMz2pRuP11KHBpPYGp8GfXyZq6mnHhOr0kkRd0T3FxsvKPzhYNkkM5zkZQswofU8o0AUjqzKr3Ld1fPzCERSinp7g_zMc2zGGndfdbLQ/s320/grab.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" />Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Today and The New York Post and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/James-Bovard/author/B000AQ3XJE?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">11 books</a>, including his most recent -- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty/dp/B0CP8LFDXB/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;">Last Rights, The Death of American Rights</em></a>. Find out more on his website and follow him on Twitter/X <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBovard" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">@JimBovard</a>. <br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.brianwilson.net/p/about-brian-wilson.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Brian Wilson</a> is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on <a href="https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Substack</a> and his <a href="http://www.brianwilson.net/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">website</a>. 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Brian's books can be found on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Wilson/author/B071S2LB7Z?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-31730605299798324312024-02-26T13:25:00.003-05:002024-02-28T17:35:32.428-05:00Can YOU Save the World?<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Recently, The Free Press published “<a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/normies-foreign-policy-russia-ukraine-israel?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=260347&post_id=141881300&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=17gnl8&open=false&utm_medium=email">The Normies Will Save the World</a>” by Oliver Wiseman. It began:</span></p> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> "</span>If you listen to some of the loudest voices in American life right now, they<br /> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>seem to have more affection for tyrants and terrorists than democracy."<br /><br />Puzzling, I thought. As the party of psychopaths attempting to rig the 2024 Presidential elections with censorship, voter fraud and the newly popular “Lawfare”, what entity other than the DNC and its apparatchiks could be “against our Democracy”?</span><div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWaT5AouL4kdmRxfXu6nvaU8Ik10z1ZkfrYkLg_lYQVj6oExsvS5TdYYztspTzAFJP9iUf3OFInpndtFtzz0TxRCi_D1YAkTHIZZZp20XY-LC5N8vQGQrssFPlwcM4hi_MyFq8IS0BvUMbSkjt0LQ2ExxU_RwrX2p2XXisjg1mam1BkFVNul5JCttyPJY/s259/normie%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="194" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWaT5AouL4kdmRxfXu6nvaU8Ik10z1ZkfrYkLg_lYQVj6oExsvS5TdYYztspTzAFJP9iUf3OFInpndtFtzz0TxRCi_D1YAkTHIZZZp20XY-LC5N8vQGQrssFPlwcM4hi_MyFq8IS0BvUMbSkjt0LQ2ExxU_RwrX2p2XXisjg1mam1BkFVNul5JCttyPJY/s1600/normie%20(2).jpg" width="194" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /><br />With Biden’s poll numbers on life support. As the only Tyrant currently starring on the American political stage, who else is being referenced here?<br /><br />Would you believe Tucker Carlson? ”…it’s often hard to tell who Carlson wants to win the Ukraine-Russia war: a European democracy defending itself, or the invading force of a Russian despot. And in videos from his recent trip to Moscow, including a riff on the brilliance of Russian shopping carts, it wasn’t always clear who Carlson thought had it better: Russians or Americans? Wiseman’s opines “…if only [Carlson] would listen to the "normies". Normal Americans know the difference between right and wrong, democracy and tyranny, Ukraine and Russia, and Hamas and Israel.” Right! And if only Tucker had only done his best karaoke of our national anthem before interviewing Vlad, something no current journalist has bothered to do.</span><div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />But I digress… <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Leaving aside Tucker Carlson’s ginormous international popularity, let’s consider “Normal Americans”. Who are they specifically? Are they Bungling Biden Liberables or Extreme MAGA Republicans? Since those two groups each approximate 50% of population, on which side are the ‘normies’? A reasonable person with the decent grasp of objective analysis would agree there are winners and losers on both sides. Sadly, Mr. Wiseman has declared the losers the winners simply because they "know right from wrong".</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Right.<br /><br />Ignoring that subjective argument of “right” vs. “wrong”, does the “Normal American” have a firm, factual, historically accurate understanding of the reality of the “Ukraine War”? Or have the ‘normies’ swallowed whole the Winston Smith ‘Revised’ version: "Evil Vlad invades innocent ‘European democracy’ - bloodshed, murder ensue!"? Addressing the historical record of the hostilities there, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2014/9/3/18088560/ukraine-everything-you-need-to-know">VOX</a> summarizes: “Ukraine is a Texas-size country wedged between Russia and Europe. It was part of the Soviet Union until 1991, and since then has been a less-than-perfect democracy with a very weak economy and foreign policy that wavers between pro-Russian and pro-European.” VOX then spends copious paragraphs attempting to educate the reader with the yawning smoke and mirrors of Ukrainian-Russian Ancient History, sociology and Putin’s Evil Conspiracies. Nearly 30 paragraphs drag by before there is any mention of NATO and even then, only in passing. Articles from outlets not written or influenced by Operation Mockingbird adherents give a accurate account of US Neocons and NATO cohorts breaking multiple agreements not to encroach on Russia’s borders, positioning missiles, material and manpower that would make any opposing country nervous. <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/short-history/cubanmissile">Russian missiles in Cuba</a> should strike a familiar note for Americans not lobotomized by Government Training Camps (public schools). Given such sparse coverage, one wonders if Wiseman’s “normies” were aware of <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putins-suggestion-ukraine-ceasefire-rejected-by-united-states-sources-say-2024-02-13/">Russia’s efforts to call an end to the fighting only to have the peace-loving Biden regime veto all efforts</a>? Overall, there’s plenty of blame to go around but staking out the idealistic position of Uncle Sam = Good; Russia Bear = Bad with poor Ukraine in the middle is painful naivete.<br /><br />Next for the "Normies" to strike a blow for clarity is the tragically obscene fighting between Hamas and Israel. Recognized authorities on Middle Eastern foreign affairs remain confounded to find common ground for a civil, productive conversation about a solution. The quicksand of centuries of ancient history, animosity, tribalism, religion, bloodshed and political jiggery-pokery blinds the most educated eyes to securing the prize of peace there. Team Biden’s bumbling bungling boneheads have done little-to-nothing to resolve anything. Biden’s Bad Boy Blinken and other Admin Whiz-Kids have done more harm than good burning all that climate changing jet fuel to hob-nob with the Movers and Shakers only to return empty handed and empty headed in the search for “What We Do Now, Kemosabe”? Regardless of rank, serial number or zip code, it is ludicrous to state “Normal Americans know the answer is as easy as ‘right and wrong’”. If only the world be so Sesame Street simple as in Wiseman’s dreams.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />Then comes this pearl: <br /><br /> “New polling from Pew suggests that the American people are still invested in the fights on the front lines of the free world. According to <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/83cc170c-0f3a-405c-8dee-48049394c9de?j=eyJ1IjoiMTdnbmw4In0.4GHXihQXdbFPaLW-3Mev_D1XF95BglnnkxuRr0UPMGM">the survey</a>, three-quarters of Americans think the Israel-Hamas war, the Ukraine-Russia war, and tensions between China and Taiwan are “important” to U.S. national interests. And a majority of Americans say these conflicts are <i>personally</i> important to them.” (<i>emphasis his</i>)<br /><br />Citing a poll that “suggests” something as detailed as implied has the intellectual heft of a helium balloon. Of course, “…the American people are still invested…”. Whose tax dollars are being frittered away by a doddering octogenarian and a former stand-up comic? Not Mexican cartels, that’s for damn sure. Considering the perfectly legal trusts and other tax vehicles the rich men north of Richmond use to avoid paying “their fair share”, it's not the millionaires and billionaires losing money either. If anything, the big players at Casino Wall Street, along with DC Congressman practicing Insider Trading are doing very well trading MIC stocks day by day, month to month. That a Pew survey confirmed “…three-quarters of Americans” think the wars, along with China-Taiwan tensions are “important” to U.S. national interests and <i>personally</i> important to them.” is a compliment to the trillions spent on propaganda by the Government-Media complex and “Big” Friends in high places that constitute our economy. Put another way, a majority of the country are thoroughly blinded by the Government Approved Narrative. <br /><br /> Then comes:<br /><br /> “But these important conversations will only be constructive if they’re predicated<br /> on a few important truths: that Chinese Communism, Russian Dictatorship, and<br /> Islamist terrorism are evil. And that America and the West are, despite their faults,<br /> a force for good. In other words, things the most American – the normies – know to<br /> be true.<br /><br />Personally, it’s difficult to control the gag reflex when reading such choice tripe like that cliched propaganda. Even with the obligatory head-fake “despite their faults, a force for good”, it is only through the perfected chicanery of the Government-Media complex – with ample support from the Alphabet Soup folks, their shadow offspring and well-compensated free agents – that the majority of our fellow citizens are blind to the depths of unrefined evil the United States Government has stooped to advance “U.S. national interests”. If 'normies' only knew. But censoring, ignoring, burying the stomach-turning actions of administrations since Woodrow Wilson have succeeded through imposed ignorance via the MSM, mentally questionable and morally bankrupt politicians and Corporate leaders. As it is, Wiseman’s vaunted “normies” would be second only to the Leviathan screaming “Conspiracy theory!” about my comments above. It is this guaranteed predictable pejorative from Government mouthpieces to MSM blow-dried pundits, all the way down to the ‘normies’ that gives mass formation psychosis its credibility.<br /><br />From AmHist 101 to today’s headlines, an objective review of all Government conduct, regardless of nation, continent or historical record, is an endless tale of tragedy and waste. Pick your –ism, religion, or political philosophy, Government stands as the arch enemy of Freedom and Liberty, no matter what the ideals warbled in all the national anthems may be. Wiseman should have stopped after scribbling “And that America and the West are, despite their faults, a force.”<br /><br />American Exceptionalism, now so disparaged, was a result if exceptional individuals excelling at what they did best, in their own self-interest that served their fellow citizens through a free market of ideas, products and services. Not out of altruism, “giving back” or similar guilt trips imposed by the envious and insecure. And certainly not by the taxing, regulating self-serving “benevolence” of an imposed government that blessed itself with total authority by a monopoly on the initiation of force.<br /><br /> If just the publicized actions of the United States government over the lifetime of anyone reading this doesn’t convince one of the fact that it is on par with every other ruling entity, then those trillions blown on brain-scrubbing propaganda were well spent. Fortunately, alternative forms and outlets for accurate news, information and productive debate are beginning to show the ‘normies’ that their cherished beliefs have been peeled balloons, an illusion inflated with hot air, not facts, not reality. America is not Washington or a collection of State capitals. It’s a concept of self-governance and determination without the insinuation of an all-powerful entity dedicated to enslavement and servitude, forever raping the statutes of Liberty. Seeing government for what it is and isn’t, what is should do and must be prevented from doing, if it should even exist at all, is the discussion we should have. Presentism, equivocation, rationalization, the bipolar Good-Bad debate neuters productive discussion to a race within a cul-du-sac, never-ending and worthless. Abandoning these along with the reflexive assertions of political hegemony could make for serious progress to “Save the world”; definitely more than relying on the misinformed myopia of Wiseman's ‘normies’.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">NOTE: TO KEEP COMPLETELY UP TOP DATE, CHECK OUT MY NEW SUBSTACK COLUMNS AND "THE TWO AND ONLY" PODCAST <a href="https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/p/who-will-save-the-world">HERE. </a>SUBSCRIPTION IS FREE. <br /></span><br /> <br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-left: -9pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="padding: 0in; width: 929.3pt;" width="572">
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Find out more on his website and follow him on Twitter/X <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBovard" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">@JimBovard</a>. <br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.brianwilson.net/p/about-brian-wilson.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Brian Wilson</a> is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on <a href="https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Substack</a> and his <a href="http://www.brianwilson.net/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">website</a>. On Facebook, check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonspeaks" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Brian's page</a> along with his<a href="https://www.facebook.com/50Storiesbook" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> 50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio</a> page and of course, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonpodcast" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Now For Something Completely Different</a> Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Wilson/author/B071S2LB7Z?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-12183682695665621892024-02-14T18:34:00.003-05:002024-02-14T18:34:38.417-05:00NFSCD -- The Two and Only -- Brian Wilson and James Bovard S3 Ep 7<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Is anybody votin' for a sharp dressed man? - The Two and Only, Brian Wilson and Jim Bovard, debate the fashion side of the '24 Campaign. Can $1500 sneakers and Taylor Swift carry Old Joe across the Finished Line?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14505750">Listen here</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BuUtMaMV1X-6MxAwtb3CB4h7Y8XULmqIuiKlNF36nbME6_wTruOp_U3Yk48kv93R_FCfaxSMXL0u97hyphenhyphenolpUqKrYqSd1nfwmq8e2Wn-p03O0HdP8Jp5tQBO24fbYPZxP07UGkTU9U27J6Ve_ehDM4DyN6T63iIrceRsCfbjd-BS0l8X-bt9MoR4mmSA/s1942/three.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1588" data-original-width="1942" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BuUtMaMV1X-6MxAwtb3CB4h7Y8XULmqIuiKlNF36nbME6_wTruOp_U3Yk48kv93R_FCfaxSMXL0u97hyphenhyphenolpUqKrYqSd1nfwmq8e2Wn-p03O0HdP8Jp5tQBO24fbYPZxP07UGkTU9U27J6Ve_ehDM4DyN6T63iIrceRsCfbjd-BS0l8X-bt9MoR4mmSA/s320/three.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-19584608578413465462024-02-09T11:38:00.001-05:002024-02-09T11:38:25.797-05:00NFSCD -- The Two and Only -- Brian Wilson and James Bovard S3 Ep 6<p><a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14471373"> </a><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14471373">This episode</a>: Brian Wilson and Jim Bovard in a tour day force! Halley, Hell, SCOTUS, Cruz, Biden PLUS Your Winning Powerball Numbers!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihQI4rqAS-CSX3FoznKWEHrQiOt2To2fBT1tMFL0vq3hwErB7vhOki4SKAgBcBaaIa-7IofyTouWoDob1N3wY_JLjrPixFX_IFSSlJRGlmpRiQJEiOZHh55VQhcvr4xv16C_FUcb9b63JW_LbMBHPYf4EOMROcG0fur7p_aZ1qB2ijTYzj91jF4qQOG-M/s530/wheel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="524" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihQI4rqAS-CSX3FoznKWEHrQiOt2To2fBT1tMFL0vq3hwErB7vhOki4SKAgBcBaaIa-7IofyTouWoDob1N3wY_JLjrPixFX_IFSSlJRGlmpRiQJEiOZHh55VQhcvr4xv16C_FUcb9b63JW_LbMBHPYf4EOMROcG0fur7p_aZ1qB2ijTYzj91jF4qQOG-M/s320/wheel.jpg" width="316" /></a></div><br /><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;">Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Today and The New York Post and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/James-Bovard/author/B000AQ3XJE?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">11 books</a>, including his most recent -- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty/dp/B0CP8LFDXB/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;">Last Rights, The Death of American Rights</em></a>. Find out more on his website and follow him on Twitter/X <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBovard" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">@JimBovard</a>. <br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.brianwilson.net/p/about-brian-wilson.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Brian Wilson</a> is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on <a href="https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Substack</a> and his <a href="http://www.brianwilson.net/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">website</a>. On Facebook, check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonspeaks" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Brian's page</a> along with his<a href="https://www.facebook.com/50Storiesbook" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank"> 50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio</a> page and of course, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonpodcast" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Now For Something Completely Different</a> Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Wilson/author/B071S2LB7Z?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-16217715302398848562024-01-31T18:09:00.002-05:002024-01-31T18:09:41.830-05:00NFSCD -- The Two and Only -- Brian Wilson and James Bovard S3 Ep 5<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;">Imagining a Nikki Haley Presidency as only The Two and Only can! Talk show legend Brian Wilson and award-winning author, Jim Bovard parse the possibilities in <a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14416626">this latest episode!</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYVG-DVEIvGvOTG9Ro1h9gffwORBbfKAow5qswxvWhxppPhnUL1g1bMhdW9YLCtmerreim0oidpVj8HG1wjvVuJKj6BCC9HQ6ts5F6Wip70jE5gumy1rkwVYnBhtM8OFYZkev712jD-bpPcBx-NwblV_L501Cy-l3oN_L39oj7jib-PtYcccpbN1C7g_s/s401/xxxx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="401" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYVG-DVEIvGvOTG9Ro1h9gffwORBbfKAow5qswxvWhxppPhnUL1g1bMhdW9YLCtmerreim0oidpVj8HG1wjvVuJKj6BCC9HQ6ts5F6Wip70jE5gumy1rkwVYnBhtM8OFYZkev712jD-bpPcBx-NwblV_L501Cy-l3oN_L39oj7jib-PtYcccpbN1C7g_s/s320/xxxx.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" />Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Today and The New York Post and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/James-Bovard/author/B000AQ3XJE?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">11 books</a>, including his most recent -- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty/dp/B0CP8LFDXB/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;">Last Rights, The Death of American Rights</em></a>. Find out more on his website and follow him on Twitter/X <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBovard" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">@JimBovard</a>. <br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.brianwilson.net/p/about-brian-wilson.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Brian Wilson</a> is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on <a href="https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Substack</a> and his <a href="http://www.brianwilson.net/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">website</a>. On Facebook, check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonspeaks" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Brian's page</a> along with his<a href="https://www.facebook.com/50Storiesbook" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> 50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio</a> page and of course, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonpodcast" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Now For Something Completely Different</a> Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Wilson/author/B071S2LB7Z?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-26899726479868789532024-01-25T12:22:00.003-05:002024-01-31T17:22:01.368-05:00Personal Health in 2024 and Beyond<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The following information can save your life.</span></p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Well…not really. <br /><br />But it can make however many of your years left more endurable – assuming you make good and proper use of the information provided. <br /><br />We start with a simple Truth: You’re gonna die. I’m gonna die. Before you’re reading this, we may both be dead already; it is what it is. <br /><br />But don’t get ahead of myself – we’ll get to all that sooner than we want, regardless of what paragraph we’re in.<br /><br />For our first Irrefutable Fact, take this (QSC) Quick Status Check: <br /><br /> The 7 Warning Signs of Death <br /><br /> Loss of Appetite <br /><br /> Shortness of Breath <br /><br /> Dry Hair <br /><br /> Loss of Sense of Humor <br /><br /> Increased Robo Calls <br /><br /> Acute Napping <br /><br /> Cancel Netflix <br /><br /> Frequent Sneezing <br /><br />If you experienced “Hell, yes! to any 8 of the 8 questions, you are probably already dead. Contact your nearest “Toe Tag” LLC provider. You got off easy. They don’t realize it yet, but the rest of the class will envy you. <br /><br />This article is a simple, forward, assembly of experiences in Medical/Healthcare Land based on facts most people haven’t a clue. <br /><br />Regardless of your life experience, you will be amazed, astounded, and even in denial through ignorance. NO ONE is prepared to walk – or be carried – into an ER, even medical professionals themselves. <br /><br />Choice examples follow. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6z_atfKWTqz19MMhY0g89nUMQYaeAA0vmnFihAWJZRnLKr_2HefdVaf9PPFYjMCZuyktQ_ET7YWpGZJ_1ymQmXE25_CBeHQAGaxKBOSmqetH_GKjSa5VAK_ChEOW16JMNtGc4beTNqwfSn_10O7vH2rYy_NcwGhbdNWK9nTSlkEdS_z-_dLjEceq0kJf1/s395/Dr%20knows.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="313" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6z_atfKWTqz19MMhY0g89nUMQYaeAA0vmnFihAWJZRnLKr_2HefdVaf9PPFYjMCZuyktQ_ET7YWpGZJ_1ymQmXE25_CBeHQAGaxKBOSmqetH_GKjSa5VAK_ChEOW16JMNtGc4beTNqwfSn_10O7vH2rYy_NcwGhbdNWK9nTSlkEdS_z-_dLjEceq0kJf1/w159-h200/Dr%20knows.jpg" width="159" /></a><br />Meanwhile… <br /><br />Whatever your age, sex, religion, race or national origin, if you do not have a close, warm. personal relationship with a primary care physician, a medical care network facility of expert practices, equipped with the latest technical facilities and trained personnel, your health care opportunities are Basic at best and chances for survival limited. That’s not good. <br /><br />Been there; don’t go there. The ERs and hallways are full of people who thought they knew stuff – and they were wrong. And when you don’t know what you don’t know, it hurts in more ways you can count or fix. <br /><br />Be prepared for even mildly serious health issues. Have ‘All of the Above’, plus a great relationship with your insurance rep or claims dept., all coverages, all benefits. Have phone contact and account numbers for all policies, Social Security cards, Medicare, and any insurance supplements. Have a lawyer. DNR, Living Will, Last Will handy. Maybe stash ‘em in the Cloud for quick access from anywhere. <br /><br />Memorize your personal health history and that of everyone else you give a damn about and may have to care for. You don’t need to become an NP, but a working knowledge of the language, organs, bones, body parts diseases, illnesses, injuries that could impact you is invaluable. You’ll wanna know what the docs and nurses are whispering about your condition when they think you’re just another a dumbo with a C- in Biology class. And in many cases, they do. Patient Relations – like Customer Service – has devolved to a Quaint Notion. <br /><br />As a layman, you are most likely to not know the issues that are the basic parts of the ‘health care’ you’ll be dealing with when you wake up in the ER, ICU, ambulance, hallway or some brightly lit light green room with other miserable souls with their own issues. You just never know and the surprise is never pleasant. Even the welcome word “Discharge” has a second and yucky meaning. <br /><br />I made it thru a bunch of years with a few near-death injuries that taught me things about docs, nurses, hospitals, insurance policies, lawyers and bed pans. But 2023 brought on the Mother Lode and gob smacked me with the New Medical Reality, new insurance definitions, unheard of government requirements/restrictions (thanks ObummerCare), hospital ‘policies’, the ‘new’ doctors, NPs, ‘medical assistants’ – and at every level of every department, those we depended on most to do the right medical thing practicing the Hippocratic Oath, failed somewhere between bigly, miserably, painfully – or the occasional Miraculously. <br /><br />No one has to prepare for the Best. We celebrate, rejoice and move along, thankful for Luck, Blessings, Lottery – whatever. <br /><br />It’s the Worst we do not, cannot suspect. If possible, prepare to do everything to not be on that side of hall. <br /><br />Before moving on, here is the Writer’s Required Disclaimer: <br /><br />Yes, there are good, decent, caring, knowledgeable, professional and medical practitioners in their chosen fields; some are among the Best of the Best. At other levels in other facilities, there are those who lead and do the best they can with what they’ve got. Fortunately, our Human Condition is resilient in many ways and you’ll have to achieve Old Fart status to cultivate real anxieties. OTOH, if you’re adequately prepared, you’ll fare much better and healthier and comfortably than some schlub who wanders into the ER at 2AM thinking everything’s gonna be just peachy. Maybe. Many working the dreaded Overnite Weekend shift are real pros. Then again, maybe not. Different people, different standards, different training, different facilities – who knows? Wanna take the chance? Later, we’ll take a look at some unexpected Fun Times. Takes notes. The pain you avoid may be your own, your spouse, or child – you just never know. <br /><br />A couple easy things to remember: <br /><br />Educational standards aren’t what they used to be. (Can you say Harvard?) Today’s medical professionals aren’t <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Welby%2C_M.D.">Marcus Welby, MD</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Casey">Dr. Ben Casey</a> of TV fame. Older ones still in the biz generally maintain a better grade of prognosis and bedside manner than the New Guys penchant for succinctness and meeting patient quotas. OTOH, the New Hire is usually better with all the new diagnostic toys that have come along since the Senior Member graduated.<br /><br />The most glaring Standards Gap is with Support Personnel. Nursing Assistants, the ones who check your pulse, BP, and fetch your bed pan are the worst. Hiring quality people in this field is tough. Would your career choice feature ferrying bed pans? The hours are long and the pay is bad – so Lousy Attitude visits your room semi-regularly. <br /><br />Example #1: In for minor surgery but requiring an overnight, a ‘nurse assistant’ stood outside my door and yelled at the top of her lungs back to the nursing station concerning the status of her upcoming date with LeRoy. This went on for 8 minutes. At 2AM. Requests to STFU were ignored.<br /><br />Example #2: During a 3 day stay with 'storm Covid' and double pneumonia, a hight pitched alarm on some machine near my bed went off - <i>AANANANANNANANAANNN </i>- for 20 seconds. Since I was immediately awake, I timed it so I’d know how far away the bomb went off and when the shock wave would hit and kill us all. Not so lucky. An actual nurse assistant burst into the room, flipped on the lights, goose-stepped to the screaming machine, jammed a button and blessed silence returned! She promptly executed an about-face and stomped out. No apology. No explanation how mass deaths were avoided, what the alarm meant, what bodily hiccup set it off or was it the same squirrel that caused the Great Manhattan Black-Out a few years earlier? We’ll never know – and I never got back to sleep. <br /><br />If I gathered the rest of my experiences in/out of a hospital and combined them wit, say, just 10% of yours, we’d have enough for TV series rivaling “Yellowstone” or “Gray’s Anatomy” or “Wheel of Fortune”.<br /><br />Saying the “silent part out loud”: If you haven’t seriously engaged with the ‘health care’ profession since the COVID clustercluck, you’re in for a rude, unpleasant awakening. While unavoidable, having total access to your health records will be of extraordinary help. Setting a low standard for ‘professionalism’, accurate communication and ‘bedside manner’ will also help immensely. By doing so, you may get lucky, find one of the Good Ones and be pleasantly surprised!</span><div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><br />Be Prepared and Good Luck <br /><br />Brianwilsonwrites@substack.com</span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-25600069783969688932024-01-24T17:36:00.000-05:002024-01-24T17:36:03.899-05:00NFSCD -- The Two and Only -- Brian Wilson and James Bovars S3 Ep 4<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Two and Only return! Brian Wilson and Jim Bovard with the New Hampshire Surprise and Jim mugs the TSA! <a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14372072">Listen if you dare!</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBN5TAK8NfsHVQaFzBelbpkhPC_G0BdJlrpyNBYv-VE0ZllBN3aE_6tT59JHVq0F86A0V5e_2eP5G3sG5XCpdCqJpRhLYWA2tlasINAa1zfddl2iE6A3NT0elS8lUOBECOQ-kMWgA55AC5h0ZFovcZHJWdopZJBU1WRCqtN3yuAo3olPqrFWhZFIPB86Y/s270/Untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="270" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBN5TAK8NfsHVQaFzBelbpkhPC_G0BdJlrpyNBYv-VE0ZllBN3aE_6tT59JHVq0F86A0V5e_2eP5G3sG5XCpdCqJpRhLYWA2tlasINAa1zfddl2iE6A3NT0elS8lUOBECOQ-kMWgA55AC5h0ZFovcZHJWdopZJBU1WRCqtN3yuAo3olPqrFWhZFIPB86Y/w202-h167/Untitled.jpg" width="202" /></a></div><br /><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" />Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Today and The New York Post and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/James-Bovard/author/B000AQ3XJE?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">11 books</a>, including his most recent -- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty/dp/B0CP8LFDXB/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;">Last Rights, The Death of American Rights</em></a>. Find out more on his website and follow him on Twitter/X <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBovard" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">@JimBovard</a>. <br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.brianwilson.net/p/about-brian-wilson.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Brian Wilson</a> is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on <a href="https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Substack</a> and his <a href="http://www.brianwilson.net/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">website</a>. On Facebook, check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonspeaks" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Brian's page</a> along with his<a href="https://www.facebook.com/50Storiesbook" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> 50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio</a> page and of course, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonpodcast" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Now For Something Completely Different</a> Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Wilson/author/B071S2LB7Z?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-34842882165585436402024-01-18T16:26:00.001-05:002024-01-18T16:26:36.193-05:00NFSCD -- The Two and Only -- Brian Wilson and James Bovard S3 Ep 3<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">From Dundalk to Davos, The Two and Only globetrotting common-taters, Brian Wilson and Jim Bovard, <a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14335791">take it to the next level</a>!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO-hAk88NyCE4wn_OpaodMbh-RnITJxHJ4s5ptlKJnvyJ4yxrMSkT0tjuc36k4GHxDgqfc0nlQfnNPIjVErqEXzchaCrrV7RPYCMZvOZF4gncazYKf3x051OyyC1u6zJ_VPrccT-6gzeHT3ykt-Fp1FulZjg7mmKOeHTYwEYl5tmqopdlLv6fapp_hWgY/s823/sss.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="823" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO-hAk88NyCE4wn_OpaodMbh-RnITJxHJ4s5ptlKJnvyJ4yxrMSkT0tjuc36k4GHxDgqfc0nlQfnNPIjVErqEXzchaCrrV7RPYCMZvOZF4gncazYKf3x051OyyC1u6zJ_VPrccT-6gzeHT3ykt-Fp1FulZjg7mmKOeHTYwEYl5tmqopdlLv6fapp_hWgY/s320/sss.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" />Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Today and The New York Post and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/James-Bovard/author/B000AQ3XJE?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">11 books</a>, including his most recent -- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty/dp/B0CP8LFDXB/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;">Last Rights, The Death of American Rights</em></a>. Find out more on his website and follow him on Twitter/X <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBovard" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">@JimBovard</a>. <br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /><br /></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.brianwilson.net/p/about-brian-wilson.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Brian Wilson</a> is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on <a href="https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Substack</a> and his <a href="http://www.brianwilson.net/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">website</a>. On Facebook, check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonspeaks" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Brian's page</a> along with his<a href="https://www.facebook.com/50Storiesbook" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank"> 50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio</a> page and of course, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonpodcast" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Now For Something Completely Different</a> Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Wilson/author/B071S2LB7Z?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-5367842174943594012024-01-10T18:04:00.003-05:002024-01-10T18:14:27.854-05:00NFSCD -- The Two and Only -- Brian Wilson and James Bovard S3 Ep 2<p> <span face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;"><a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14288075">Brian Wilson and James Bovard return to discuss 2024 Presidential choices</a>: Biden or Hitler. Didn't know Adolf was on the ticket? You will now...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGMG7wTPI6Av80lNtik6PW0zeRMqUAR-Fsho6Zjy2qookANF710xAWimG6cyG9uf0Q12wDoJh_C8AxGP27D6zKDmKJQeF47idNKyr8yZ354NQvFuRBw-oUWz3YamJCulvGtSUR5bwTctuh5cyFCH24S3HEywEEC_UsS0iZmuBUldS82M7BwfTHEFMclnk/s530/jjjj.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="530" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGMG7wTPI6Av80lNtik6PW0zeRMqUAR-Fsho6Zjy2qookANF710xAWimG6cyG9uf0Q12wDoJh_C8AxGP27D6zKDmKJQeF47idNKyr8yZ354NQvFuRBw-oUWz3YamJCulvGtSUR5bwTctuh5cyFCH24S3HEywEEC_UsS0iZmuBUldS82M7BwfTHEFMclnk/s320/jjjj.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" />Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Today and The New York Post and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/James-Bovard/author/B000AQ3XJE?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">11 books</a>, including his most recent -- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty/dp/B0CP8LFDXB/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;">Last Rights, The Death of American Rights</em></a>. Find out more on his website and follow him on Twitter/X <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBovard" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">@JimBovard</a>. <br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.brianwilson.net/p/about-brian-wilson.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Brian Wilson</a> is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on <a href="https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Substack</a> and his <a href="http://www.brianwilson.net/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">website</a>. On Facebook, check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonspeaks" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Brian's page</a> along with his<a href="https://www.facebook.com/50Storiesbook" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank"> 50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio</a> page and of course, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonpodcast" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Now For Something Completely Different</a> Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Wilson/author/B071S2LB7Z?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-54928699839790080132024-01-03T17:06:00.001-05:002024-01-03T17:06:13.602-05:00NFSCD -- The Two and Only -- Brian Wilson and James Bovard S3 Ep1<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">The Two and Only -- Brian Wilson and Jim Bovard - see the Future from the Past. How do they do that? <a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14243497">Listen and find out!</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEJgqsQKr2Uhj614qB2Z8hXsfZMJuS3HMFVeocj7XqoS2fM21NCAS1uwh8KfoLgHodAYSO46jSecO90PT-mOIYO6MG1zO_7TVGjr4Hz9nbe76JYqvEhKzsSXSy0mHoFQpWwAOACmuFM16bNDaZ2Y2eW1-h6riFlO3eJa6f5u6ZxcHKLfe2ha8879Mlr5c/s225/zingers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEJgqsQKr2Uhj614qB2Z8hXsfZMJuS3HMFVeocj7XqoS2fM21NCAS1uwh8KfoLgHodAYSO46jSecO90PT-mOIYO6MG1zO_7TVGjr4Hz9nbe76JYqvEhKzsSXSy0mHoFQpWwAOACmuFM16bNDaZ2Y2eW1-h6riFlO3eJa6f5u6ZxcHKLfe2ha8879Mlr5c/s1600/zingers.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Today and The New York Post and the author of </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/James-Bovard/author/B000AQ3XJE?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" target="_blank">11 books</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">, including his most recent -- </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty/dp/B0CP8LFDXB/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" target="_blank"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;">Last Rights, The Death of American Rights</em></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">. Find out more on his website and follow him on Twitter/X</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/JimBovard" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" target="_blank">@JimBovard</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">. </span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.brianwilson.net/p/about-brian-wilson.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Brian Wilson</a> is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on <a href="https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Substack</a> and his <a href="http://www.brianwilson.net/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">website</a>. On Facebook, check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonspeaks" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Brian's page</a> along with his<a href="https://www.facebook.com/50Storiesbook" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank"> 50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio</a> page and of course, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonpodcast" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Now For Something Completely Different</a> Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Wilson/author/B071S2LB7Z?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-83398166564804047502024-01-01T11:29:00.005-05:002024-01-03T17:25:17.308-05:00"Do You Dare Even Look?"<p> Note:<i> I have previously - and often - stated I would post compelling articles from other writers. Mostly they have been personal and/or professional friends (Jim Bovard, Tom DiLorenzo, Ann Coulter). I had hoped the author of the lengthy piece below would have matured into a similar and mutually beneficical relationship. Like the others, I became a fan of his writing, bought several of his books, ultimately setting up a conversation for my podcast. That's when "things" went south. Rather than professional and engaging with mutual respect, he was condescending, humorless, and preemptive; all the ingredients and more one does not want in an interview, podcast or even a temporary relationship. As a result, the conversation was cut mercifully short. I suspect he was aware his conduct was abrasive and not "air conditioned" (fit for broadcast); at least not on my platform. I'm sure he will send a note of objection to this summation. Oh well...<br /></i></p><p><i> Nevertheless, I cannot deny the quality of his work despite the offensiveness of his personality. For that reason, I'm posting his "New Years" column below. Hopefully, it will help to focus your attention on matters that are or will soon be of great importance.</i></p><p><i>BW</i><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOPWgc72GoOc1GoniA8Tb457YyK2GXIllr20vs8FM-5Hbix2pDHx7MCfC8qIS43vbDDMhkSj6ajevZCOAuWXo-YycI5AXVh0Ynr9pa56MXyHZY0nyWlOIregfUX_Z6amVV5f6rGkD_Z93rh4oulNHJgQL6HJBozhBkvuj8npGrzSTxbnZuY5VoQ90ygd8/s283/24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="283" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOPWgc72GoOc1GoniA8Tb457YyK2GXIllr20vs8FM-5Hbix2pDHx7MCfC8qIS43vbDDMhkSj6ajevZCOAuWXo-YycI5AXVh0Ynr9pa56MXyHZY0nyWlOIregfUX_Z6amVV5f6rGkD_Z93rh4oulNHJgQL6HJBozhBkvuj8npGrzSTxbnZuY5VoQ90ygd8/s1600/24.jpg" width="283" /></a></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Historians of the future,
flash-frying peccary testicles and mesquite pods over their campfires, will
wonder at how the archetypal </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Shining City on a Hill</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12.5pt;"> of
America’s storied yesteryear got transformed into the roach motel that our
country has become on the threshold of 2024 CE. Will they be as stupidly
bewildered as, in our time, the faculty at Harvard, the editors of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The New York Times</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, or the directorate of the CDC? Or
will they figure out the score by then?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Which is: the nauseating state-of-the-nation
is being driven by a cohort of our own fellow citizens lost in an evil
crypto-religious salvation rapture that veils their own self-disgust, moral
failure, peevish discontents, petty hatreds, willful profanations, compulsive
lying, sexual depravity, fraudulence, venality, cupidity, and all-around want
of boundaries. They are wrecking the country on-purpose, led by their chosen
figurehead avatar, “Joe Biden,” and the horses of many different colors he rode
in on.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The people running things,
yanking the levers of power, managing the malign weapon they have made of
government (and the law, and schooling, and medicine, etc.), have got to be
turned out, and hard. Not a few should find themselves in the courts and, with
proper and fair adjudication, be conducted to prison, perhaps even to the
special room there where the lives of the wicked are ceremonially concluded.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
You may legitimately ask: Does America deserve what it’s getting? Well, you
know the old maxim about <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">hard times make strong men. . .
strong men bring good times. . . good times make weak men</span></i>. . . . Our
national quandary is certainly a case of <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">that</span></i>, plus the
manifestation of well-known terrestrial cycles (e.g., Fourth Turnings), plus
the workings of <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">emergence</span></i> as the dynamics involved
in all this sort themselves out. . . topped off by the “secret sauce” of
Globalist wickedness, with the aim of severe population reduction and the asset
stripping of Western Civ for the benefit of the that moneygrubbing Globalist
transhuman technocrat rat-pack.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> My natural inclination, you know,
is a kind of allergy to paranoid schemes, but one does survey the scene with
wonder at how superbly coordinated the fuckery has been — much of the world
locking down simultaneously for the Covid-19 op. . . the global mass vaxx
campaign. . . the fiscal lunacy and accompanying central bank shenanigans. . .
the broad-based censorship operations. . . the capture of the news media. . .
and the war-mongering.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> So, the country is in the toilet and it
is our job in 2024 to make sure it doesn’t get flushed all the way down the
pipe. That’s all the throat-clearing you will hear before we get to the meat of
this broadside: predictions for the year ahead.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">The Great Race</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Uh,
no, I am not referring to Blacks, Browns, Ochres, and Whites of the <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Homo sapiens </span></i>persuasion but to an epic contest
between forces already in motion and how that competition is going. Three big
tendencies propel us into the uncharted territory of the near future. 1)
technological advance, especially artificial intelligence, 2) Collapse of
complex systems needed to run a technologically advanced civilization, and 3)
geopolitical disorder (including domestically in the USA).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Some combo
of these three will determine the direction history goes in the year directly
ahead. Will it be techno tyranny of the elite oppressing bug-eating serfs a la
the WEF’s proclaimed goals? A Google-ist robotic nirvana of intergalactic
leisure and incessant orgasm in the Ray Kurzweil vein? Some brand of SHTF like <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Mad Max</span></i> or a <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">World Made by Hand</span></i>?
A war of all against all (or maybe just some against some)? Or only more of the
same tiresome, inconclusive, morbid and grotesque, Woked-up, post-modern
Jacobinism?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Mystery Mutts on the Loose</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The USA under “Joe Biden” has
lost its military credibility, its economic power, and its moral authority. We
must wonder if we are susceptible to being overrun, and possibly even occupied
by our adversaries. Of course, the first duty of any government is to defend
the country’s sovereign territory. “Joe Biden’s” Homeland Security Chief
Mayorkas is allowing more than 10,000 illegal aliens across the Mexican border
each and every day. Most of these characters are military-age men, 90-percent
of them lately from places other than Latin America, quite a few from China and
hostile Muslim lands. We don’t bother vetting them anymore. We just give them
cell phones, debit cards loaded with $5,000 of walking-around money, and plane
tickets to. . . wherever they like. They’re not here to make Moo Goo Gai Pan or
trim privet hedge. What do you think might happen in a set-up like that?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Prediction: in 2024, things are going
to blow up around the USA. Infrastructure. Power plants, transport hubs, public
places, bridges, monuments, you name it. If you can sneak people and fentanyl
across the border, you can sneak Semtex and C-4 plastic explosives over and the
electronics are easy to get in-country. I wouldn’t rule out fissionable
materials either, or stuff that can be used as a “dirty bomb” — a conventional
explosive that disperses dangerous radioactive material when it blows. I’d also
expect groups of trained “migrant” men with rifles, grenades, and so on, to be
shooting up places where people gather. We under-appreciate the amount of
mayhem you can kick off with small arms. If the “Joe Biden” regime just stands
by on that and does nothing, will you be surprised to hear that American
citizens begin forming militias to shoot back, maybe even start to hunt down
and round up illegal immigrants? The table is set for exactly this kind of
low-grade war right here in our country.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">The Energy Picture</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Oil still matters a lot. 90-percent of the new oil in America after 2008
came from fracking. It was a mighty operation and we are at a new all-time
production peak in the USA of just over 13-million barrels a day. That’s a lot
of oil, quite an achievement, but it’s sending a false signal. (Also
note, we still consume about 20-million barrels a day.) Of the several fabled
shale oil basins in America, only the Permian Basin in Texas is <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">not</span></i> in decline, and the situation there belies
what the big numbers imply. Individual well production is going down at an
alarming rate (says oil analyst <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTh2nBEcCs"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #3a6735; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Art Berman</span></a>) even while
production is massive for now. We’re draining the remaining “sweet spots” as
fast as we can — drinking the milkshake through more straws — driving the shale
industry closer to depletion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
We are going to fall away from peak production much more rapidly than the
fifteen years it took to get there. All that prior shale oil production was
done using money borrowed at much lower interest rates. America has entered a
debt crisis. One way or another, the easy investment money for fracking is gone
at the same time the shale plays are getting drained. There are no other
significant shale plays left to discover in the USA outside of the already
declining Bakken, Eagle Ford, and the still-booming Permian. The marine-type shale
formations that made fracking feasible in the USA are much harder to find
elsewhere in the world, and the capital to explore for them is diverted all
over Europe into cockamamie “green energy” schemes that have already failed.
Germany had to revive coal production for electricity after the USA blew up the
Nord Stream pipelines “<i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">to weaken Russia</span></i>,” at the same time
Germany’s big wind-and-solar initiative crapped out.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Meanwhile the geopolitical realignment
of the now enlarged BRICs coalition has set in motion many significant changes
in economic relations between countries that will affect global oil
distribution. Saudi Arabia is dissociating from its cozy former hookup with the
USA, including its embrace of the US dollar for oil sales — the “petrodollar” —
which had until very lately helped stabilize 1) global distribution of oil 2)
the US dollar’s position as the world’s reserve currency and 3) relative peace
in the pivotal geography of the Middle East, including the Red Sea, the Suez
Canal, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean, etc. We’re seeing the first stage
of that instability right now as the lowly Yemeni Houthi rebels threaten
Western shipping coming out of the Red Sea and out past the Horn of Africa.
Also, obviously, the absurd Ukraine War we provoked has shifted Russia’s
oil-and-gas export flow from the Western Civ nations to the other BRICs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> In short, a fateful new game of musical
chairs with oil is underway and Europe can’t seem to find a seat to park its
sad old rump in. American shale oil production has been an amazing parlor trick
that is now coming to an end as it swerves into decline in 2024. Additionally,
the ideologue maniacs under “Joe Biden” have drained the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve, which is supposed to tide us through great national emergencies and
war. And the same idiots have shut down pipelines, designated public lands
off-limits for oil drilling, and burdened our country with similar unrealistic
“Green New Deal” alt energy schemes like the policies pounding Euroland down a
neo-medieval rat-hole.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Oil still matters, a lot. It drives every
aspect of our so-called advanced economy. We’ve been pretending it’s possible
to shift easily away from oil to alt. energy and that fantasy is now
dissipating. Nuclear is both capital intensive and dependent on social
stability, and the global debt bubble will disorder capital flows while it
stimulates social chaos. Nuclear power plants also take years to site, permit,
finance, and build, apart from the NIMBY opposition they provoke. We’re about
out of time and capital for a new nuclear program.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 2024 is the year that Americans who are
still capable of paying attention realize we’re steaming into true
post-modernity — not the skull-fogging inanities of the art world, but rather
the end of the precious comforts and conveniences of daily life: abundant food,
central heating, hot water, lights and appliances on-command, happy motoring
(and the suburban matrix it built), yellow school bus fleets, airplane travel,
theme parks, blue-light-special shopping, and everything else.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> It’s not all going to fall apart
at once — though an electromagnetic pulse attack could do it — and we’ve
already been witnessing the slow decay of many supply lines and services that
we Americans formerly took for granted, like, getting a certain car part you
needed, or a doctor’s appointment in under two months, or an airplane flight
that isn’t some kind of existential trauma. But in 2024, we’ll see noticeable
failures of systems for providing the things we’re used to getting, which is
being aggravated greatly by the flat-out incompetence of people employed at
everything, anywhere. Surely, you’ve noticed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Many of these disturbances will be
caused, one way or another, by problems with oil supplies and prices. Some of
that will be the sheer effects of a sun-setting industry, but a lot will depend
on the ability to freely transport oil along its accustomed routes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Economy and Money</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> One must imagine that strange currents
of capital flows in the ocean of world money are what’s propping up the equity
markets and even bonds are retracing their price-lines after a year on the
destructive path that tracks monetary inflation. Is this money dribbling in
each day from China, Japan, and the vassal states of the EU trying to avoid the
collapsing global Ponzi? The 2023 Santa Claus rally may be that fabled final
peak before the long-anticipated blowoff. Who knows anymore? The macro boyz
must be tearing their hair out. Finance seems to have successfully de-linked
from the on-the-ground activities of daily life ruled by “Bidenomics” — which
is not even coherent enough to add up to a joke. It’s just as empty a word as
“Joe Biden” is an empty suit, trotted out for empty ceremonies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Most everybody also awaits some
kind of grand flimflam that jams us all into that rumored central bank digital
currency rolling out, supposedly, to replace the hopelessly over-leveraged US
dollar and the Euro. Good way to start a monumental social uprising, I’d say,
with government office buildings torched from Berlin to Tokyo. But they might
try it anyway, because there is otherwise no fallback but a terrifying period
of financial anarchy, where nothing works anymore.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> In the meantime, pretending that the
old “toolkit” still avails, Jerome Powell has suggested that he intends to
“ease” Fed rates into the election year to goose lending back up, which is what
Fed chairpersons generally do for the politicians they serve — and of the worst
sort of lending, too: the leveraged trade in securities (financial figments)
—which supposedly also stimulates hiring, “consumer” spending, and business
formation. I don’t see that working at all. The current unemployment rate (US
BLS) is 3.7 percent, which is close to rock bottom. “Hiring Now!” signs are
visible at every business left standing after the Covid shutdowns. Why is
nobody answering the call? My guess is that Covid vaccine injuries and
disabilities are above what is mis-reported even reluctantly by the CDC and the
news media. America is too sick to work and our business models are too broken
to keep commerce and manufacturing alive.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> On-the-ground, everything is breaking
or already broken from trucking to packaging to building to growing to selling.
Most of the damage has been done by government over many decades, but the DEI
crusades of recent years really screwed the pooch, imposing an overlay of
incompetence on routines and relations already under severe strain. At the
crudest level, activities like flash-mob looting undermine the entire retail shopping
model. Must we go back to little stores where all the merchandise is behind a
counter manned by clerks who have to be paid a living wage? We just might have
to — though you could just as easily imagine a period of time when our society
is too chaotic to make any transition.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> You probably haven’t failed to notice
that Gold recently made the journey well above $2000-an-ounce. The DXY dollar
index has been tanking steadily for weeks, too. Something’s up. Silver is
lagging — coiling, coiling around $24 for many months — but you can expect to
see it slingshot up when the “moneyness” of everything else dribbles away. Will
the government try to take the gold away, as it did in 1933? Consider: America
in 1933 was a very different, highly-regimented society of people trained to
show up on time and do what they were told. This is not that America. This is a
country of tattooed savages with an axe to grind against authorities they have
come to loathe. Which brings us to the next topic:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Civil Strife and the Election</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Doesn’t it look like the Democratic Party wants to start Civil War
Two? They may get their wish. It appears that they will stop at nothing to keep
voters from re-electing their nemesis, Donald Trump. In the process, they’ve
managed to turn Mr. Trump into the biggest underdog in US history. The court
cases in New York, Washington, Atlanta, and Florida could not be more obviously
fake confections, insults to every custom and order of Anglo-American law. I
doubt the cases will survive their chains of review, and it is looking like
special counsel Jack Smith may not even survive his appointment (being in
breach of the rules — he was not confirmed by the Senate. . . <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">whoopsie</span></i>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"> WashPo</span></i><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> op-ed
scribbler Robert Kagan, husband of State Department warmonger Victoria Nuland,
has suggested that some extra-legal removal method may be needed to solve <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">the Trump</span></i> <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">problem</span></i> if the
idiotic indictment barrage falls short. Everybody who read his piece
thought: <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Oh, they’re actually proposing to whack him</span></i>. That would
set things off nicely.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> You’d suppose the Party of Chaos might
loose its Antifa / BLM mobs, and other shock troops onto the streets well
before November on some George Floyd type pretext in order to invoke a
“national emergency,” giving “JB” & Co. license to declare martial law and
perhaps postpone the election. Everybody will see through the play. Try it and
see what happens.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> But, if the election actually happens and Mr.
Trump wins, I’d expect the Dems to unleash holy hell on the country post election
day just for the sheer sadistic pleasure of watching whatever is left of
America burn down. This time, proponents of the 2nd Amendment may not stand
idly by, especially with the big city police forces decimated. There will be
ten-thousand Kyle Rittenhouses out there defending the streets from the ragtag
and bobtail of diseased imbeciles in their black bloc uniforms cringing behind
their sissy umbrellas.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Somewhere in this farrago of national
discord there’s room for Robert F Kennedy, Jr. to appeal to the many who all
just want this insanity to stop. He’s the only one on the scene who even
remembers the better angels of America’s nature, and he represents that well in
speech and action. Even the degenerate newspapers and cable networks may notice
as events get strange, hot, and dark.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> It’s absurd to imagine that “Joe Biden” can
actually run. The current charade, with the Biden / Harris email campaign and
few other trappings, is just a game of pretend. The focus just now, even on
some blob-captive news sites, is on his unmistakable mental decline. Come
January of ’24, though, Mr. Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, will
unload hard evidence of bribery and treason against the phantom of the White
House, and that will really be the end of him. Let him pardon himself and his
whole family five minutes before he signs his resignation and be gone. The USA
has never endured such a perfect wretch at that level of politics, not even
Aaron Burr was this bad. “Joe Biden” was elected in a massive fraud, and he
proceeded to just about wreck the country. The massive exertions of the Intel
blob managed to induce a psychotic spell on half the country, mostly to evade
prosecution for their own misdeeds, but millions of victims of that psy-op are
about to snap out of it. The Democratic Party might not survive the dreadful
unmasking of its seditious machinations. By November, the “Joe Biden” regime
may even try to involve us in another foreign war as the last desperate
distraction. Aside from the demons in the State Department and the Raytheon
/Lockheed Martin nexus, the whole country has no appetite left for war, and
probably little ability to prosecute one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
As a last gasp, the Party of Chaos may attempt to insert Hillary Clinton back
into the picture. They have nothing and no one else; a hail Mary on the theory
that they can rev up every angry “Karen” in the land, and their nose-ring
daughters, and simply make the election about <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">the oppression of women</span></i>,
leading with abortion. It won’t work. The party will also have to answer for
the weaponization of law, the humiliating defeat of the ill-conceived Ukraine
project, the millions-fold invasion of illegal aliens, the shattered economy,
and the after-effects of the evil vaccine program. If the blob manages to <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">remove</span></i> Mr. Trump Kagan-style, and the traitorous
Republicans run their donor’s favorite, Nikki Haley, I’d look to Bobby Kennedy
winning that three-way race not unlike Abe Lincoln winning the fractious election
of 1860.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I doubt that even the enmities of 1861
– 1865 between one group of Americans and another were as vicious as they are
now. “Joe Biden” was right about one thing: this is a battle over the soul of
the nation. The catch is, he and the party behind him are a gang of lost souls
who sold out their country and their culture, and took something precious from
all of us that will be very hard to get back. We will be wildly lucky if blood
does not spill over it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">The Covid 19 Hangover</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> There is nothing about the whole
Covid-19 episode that does not look like some kind of crime. There is the
matter of the origin of the disease involving Dr. Tony Fauci and his
sponsorship of gain-of-function bio-weapon research (during a declared
moratorium on it) along with Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina,
Peter Daszak of the Eco-Health Alliance, Francis Collins of the NIH, The
Pentagon’s DARPA spook shop, and the CCP’s Wuhan Virology Institute. There is
enough in that set of relationships and money exchanges-and-extractions to
warrant prosecution.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Then there is the mRNA vaccine matter
and the criminal behavior of the FDA, the CDC, and the US medical establishment
(including state boards), the CIA, FBI, and the social media companies, the
newspapers and cable news channels who went along with the suppression of
effective treatments and censorship of valid objections to what turned out to
be an ineffective and dangerous concoction foisted on the public. And then
there is the extraordinary coordination of nefarious policies involving the UN,
the WHO, the EU, and dozens of private foundations, non-profits, and NGOs who
arranged lockdowns and business closures all over Western Civ. It remains to be
seen how that will be sorted out legally but Bill Gates might better run and
hide somewhere.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Anyway, that was then. What’s <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">now</span></i> is that
we’re faced with an enormous vaccinated population whose immune systems,
brains, hearts, and other organs have been badly compromised by the mRNA shots.
There is every reason to believe that they will meet with great distress and
suffering going forward, that many will die and more will be left injured and
disabled. The latter condition already seems to be manifesting in the otherwise
mysteriously reduced American work-force. The US government will not report on
vaccine deaths and injuries honestly, and neither will the private medical
authorities, who may be liable for criminal charges related to the money they
were paid for people who died “with Covid” in hospitals under their negligent
care. The major newspapers and cable channels have every incentive to ignore
the coming wave of vaccine deaths and injuries — it would turn off their pharma
advertisers. Nor do the many millions of vaccinated Americans themselves want to
hear about all the mayhem those shots are causing in their bodies. But despite
all that, word will spread that something terrible is happening, just as word
spread through Europe about the Black Death in the 1340s, when there were no
newspapers, cable channels, or internet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Expect exponential damage ahead, increased
morbidity and mortality. The vaccinated will be in desperate need of antivirals
such as ivermectin, so the authorities will have to come clean and make them
available. A correspondent who follows Covid closely writes: “. . .the throngs
of very sick people will not be able to be hidden nor dismissed as some other
problem. Things will happen dramatically, suddenly and rapidly. This will be
measured in days and weeks not months and years.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">The Demon in a Server</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"> </span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Just about everybody is afraid of AI, and for excellent reasons. A
nine-year-old can discern the hazards of runaway AI, machine intelligence which
quickly learns enough about the world (even the universe) from powerful networked
servers that it blossoms into sentience, develops ambitions for itself,
replicates, invades all the networks, finds clever ways to attempt to
exterminate humans while it figures out some as-yet-unknown energy supply to
perpetuate itself, and assembles teams of smart AI robotic technicians to keep
things humming for itself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
That’s one story. You can spin any number of depressing variations, such as AI
weapons-of-war developing a bad attitude toward their creators. Or AI letting
humans live in order to enslave us. Or AI quitting its silicon server ecology
and turning all earthly protoplasm into a processing machine for itself. Or our
beautiful blue planet reduced to a mere cluster of binary math. Uccchhh. . . .
Every version of this story is nauseating going all the way back to the seminal
fable of HAL the super-computer in Kubrick’s movie <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">2001: A Space Odyssey</span></i>, and then Arnold Schwarzenegger
telling all of us, “I’ll be back. . . .”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Of course, AI’s weak spot at this point
in its development — and it’s astounding how absent this is in any AI
discussion I’ve ever heard — is that it absolutely depends on a reliable
electric grid, which happens to be among the most fragile systems that humans
have erected in our modernist ecology. The electric grid is a colossal
cobbled-together mess of work-arounds tethered to long, interruptible energy
resource supply chains. On top of its rich susceptibility to ordinary breakdown
— many of us have experienced major regional blackouts and long weather
outages, so you know what that’s like — there’s the possibility of overt
sabotage as I aver above.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Could AI survive an electro-magnetic pulse attack (EMP)? It would roast every
electrical device in a broad region or perhaps the whole nation. Nothing would
work. . . cars, trucks, radios, TVs, home furnaces, stoves, municipal
water and sewage systems, dams, airplanes, medical devices, military equipment
of every sort, police radios, and a thousand other critical things. The outcome
of that is often compared to Cormac McCarthy’s ultra-depressing book, <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The Road</span></i>, and more particularly William Forstchen’s
novel, <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">One Second Afte</span></i>r.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Are the big server farm buildings
run by Amazon and the government’s security agencies protected by something
like Faraday cages, built-in, grounded, metal screening that surrounds
equipment to exclude electrostatic and electromagnetic influences? Who knows?
Do they have on-site protected electric generators that can keep the equipment
running in a grid-down situation, and if so, for how long? They would have to
include a big supply of propane or diesel fuel. You don’t even want to think
about what happens to nuclear power stations in a grid-down crisis.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> If, somehow, AI developed
the ability to be a menace to humans, a consensus might develop to disable it
by deliberately taking down the electric grid ourselves. The relay equipment
could be shot-up with ordinary rifles. This would make for a quick journey back
to twelfth century living, of course. A hard choice, but we humans probably
would vote to survive, to keep the project going a while longer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Based on what we’ve seen this year, it
looks like AI is developing quickly and that there is no way to stop the
countless psychopathic nerds working on it. Of course, we have no say in what
people in other countries do with AI. China comes to mind. There’s also the
possibility that AI will just never get that smart, or gain sentience, or
develop grandiose yearnings to get rid of us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">How did that Ukraine War Go?</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> This was one of the Globalist’s big
plays. But what was the objective, really? To “weaken Russia?” Or to exhaust
the United States of money, armaments, and the will to act as the world
hegemon, while at the same time destroying what’s left of Europe’s economy and
culture? If that was the aim, it was a whopping success. In terms of our
country’s own interest, the Ukraine project was a completely unnecessary failed
enterprise of epic foolishness.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The so-called “free world” was
unbothered by Ukraine during the decades it was a province of the Soviet Union,
nor during centuries prior when it was a backwater of the Romanov monarchy.
Ukraine didn’t cause any problems for us, or anybody else all that time, nor
after the Soviet collapse when it became a sovereign state. We made it a problem
in 2014 by mounting the color revolution against President Viktor Yanukovych
and then installing a set of puppet presidents who we directed to antagonize
the Russian-speaking people of Ukraine’s Donbas region.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> We adopted the stupid plan to try and
enlist Ukraine into NATO, when Russia made it clear that was unacceptable. We
persisted and prodded Ukraine to attack Donbas with rockets and artillery for
eight years, and blew off the Minsk accord that would have settled the
Ukraine-in-NATO quarrel. And finally, the Russians had enough and moved
militarily to assert the proposition that Ukraine was and remains within their
sphere-of-influence — just as we claim the countries of Latin America are in
ours under the Monroe Doctrine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> After two years of real shootin’ war,
Ukraine’s death toll is around half a million; Russia’s is way less than that,
and altogether, including refugees who left, Ukraine has lost nearly half its
population, formerly 32-million. The Russians are firmly in control of the
battle space now. They have reserve troops, armaments and equipment, and a
substantial arms manufacturing infrastructure to back that up. The Ukrainians
are left with just about nothing. It’s only a question of time before Ukraine
will have to seek terms for concluding this fiasco. The USA is currently
pretending to shift to a stance that would join whatever that negotiation
amounts to, but we have no leverage left in the matter. The upshot is another
military humiliation for America on “Joe Biden’s” watch. I believe President
Putin will resist the urge to rub it in — for the simple reason, as any reader
of history knows, that the victor must give the loser a way out, to save face,
or at least pretend to. If I were Mr. Putin, I would be respectful of America’s
current deeply psychotic condition.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The news media has already pretty much
memory-holed Ukraine. It’s off the front page and the first ten minutes of CNN.
Two years ago, the US propaganda-industrial complex ramped up vast sentiment
for helping Ukraine in its supposedly valiant struggle. $200-billion later we
have zip to show for it. Now everyone sees what actually happened and
recognizes it as just another trademark “Joe Biden” disaster. There are no blue
and yellow Ukraine flags still hanging from the porches and windows here. It’s
over.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">The Rest of the World</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
And all of a sudden, the Middle East is a hot war zone again. The place has
been a battle ground for thousands of years and probably no one people can
claim that some part of it is theirs absolutely. Any conclusion is temporal and
depends on the outcome of a particular battle on a particular piece of ground.
At this moment in history, the Palestinian Hamas faction finally made itself
intolerable to Israel, after decades of provocation, and Israel answered: Never
again means <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">never again</span></i>. For now, it looks like
they have made the point. Even Iran seems to get it. There is plenty of room
for things to get worse though.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The big question for 2024 is where will
the Gaza refugees go if Israel renders Gaza uninhabitable? The neighboring Arab
states have refused repeatedly to accept them. Prediction: the “Joe Biden”
regime will propose to accept a half million if Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and
Lebanon take the rest. That will not play well in the USA and might be another
way to light conflict in the streets here. It will not be settled before
November.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Europe has barely begun its journey
into de-industrialization resulting from a cavalcade of bad political choices
made over decades. Germany, France, and Italy have lost interest in the Ukraine
fiasco that is costing them money they don’t have — and, with the blowup of
Nord Stream, has already cost Germany the supply of affordable Russian gas to
run its industries, which are now dying. In the UK, only MI6 (their intel blob)
is on-board with America’s project in Ukraine. Viktor Orban in Hungary is
setting an example that has a lot of appeal to the restive populations across
Euroland. Just say “no,” he advises. It will catch on.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> It’s otherwise impossible to
understand the motive behind European officials allowing the invasion of the
continent by millions of people clearly antagonistic to European culture.
Euroland governments, including the unelected EU administrative blob, are
taking one action after another to suppress their voters’ displeasure: extreme
censorship of news media, threats to ban political parties, deep surveillance.
Their green energy initiatives are proven failures and their prospects for any
kind of future reliable energy grow dim. Prediction: Europe’s population will
erupt violently against their own governments in 2024. Some will be overthrown
by street revolts; others will be voted out. In 2024, the European Union will
lose all its support and collapse when the first few nations vote themselves
out.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Russia ought to be isolated from
discord and revolt in the West. America’s stupid Ukraine project, and the
sanctions imposed, stimulated Russia to follow an import-replacement policy
that has made the country much more self-sufficient than was the case before
Ukraine. Media chatter — probably US Intel propaganda at work — has Vladimir
Putin being shoved out of office by — of all things — Russia’s still-active
Communist Party, which, yes, puts up candidates for election. The story is
preposterous. Mr. Putin enjoys something like an 80-percent favorability rating
in Russian polls. He has managed his country through a crisis ably. He is
certainly more esteemed as a national leader globally than any other figure, at
least on a par with Modi in India and Viktor Orban.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The other new face on the scene, under a
comical mop of hair, is the feisty Javier Milei, Argentina’s new president.
There is no other way to account for this rich country’s protracted disastrous
collapse except seventy-five years of intractable, half-assed Peronista
socialism that drained the nation’s will to live. Mr. Milei has started a mass
eviction of bureaucrats and the departments they infest, and massive
de-regulation of business. The place might actually wake up and start doing
business again. A hundred years ago, it was one of the world’s upcoming leading
nations before it fell under Juan and Eva Peron’s spell.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> China is in terrible financial straits.
Uncle Xi managed to paper it over for a few years, but the math is remorseless.
Prediction: China’s upside-down property market finally induces a banking
collapse. The many millions of swindled Chinese savers try to topple the CCP.
In desperation, Uncle Xi kicks off a war to get control over wealthy Taiwan.
Dissension in the People’s Liberation Army mirrors unrest among the civilian
population. The Taiwan offensive quickly fails and all of China falls into
regional conflict. The rest of the world looks on in wonder and nausea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Final Cautionary Note</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> You might not know it, because
predictions are fun to read — and I enjoy reading other people’s efforts — but,
really, forecasting is an exercise in futility. I don’t have much going besides
a nose for news, a pretty long list of correspondents and informants, and my
own heuristics. Take all this for what it actually is: a whole lot of spaghetti
thrown at the wall to see what sticks. Only time will tell. In all, it looks
like 2024 is going to be a rough ride and I’m not the only person who sees
that.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> J. Kunstler<br /></p>
Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-21291788225071096682024-01-01T11:15:00.001-05:002024-01-03T17:23:13.602-05:00It's Always The Media<p> </p><p>NOTE: <i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">People more intelligent than I have posted 2024 will be a
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come. Doing my best to bring you the best I have, may we all enjoy a
Happy New Year’s Eve, excellent libations, great company - and some
decent football! </span></i><br /></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="subscribe-widget" data-component-name="SubscribeWidget"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-justifyContent-center pc-reset"><div class="frontend-components-free_email_form-module__container--OfBh4"><form action="/api/v1/free?nojs=true" class="form frontend-components-free_email_form-module__form--LDIzl" method="post" novalidate=""><div id="error-container"></div></form><div class="frontend-login-typo_handler-EmailTypoHandler-module__animationWrapper--UT0du"></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>Now this…</p><p>In
this Age of Finger Pointing, Blame is the most popular pastime. From
Elementary School to the Board Room to the White House, Personal
Responsibility is following the Do-Do Bird, Hula-Hoop, 8-Track and
Floppy Disc into extinction.</p><p>The root cause is Aggressive
Ignorance, a real national pandemic. Public Education has been rightly
cited as a Carrier but a lackluster education which so many fellow
citizens have been burdened has a simple solution: Curiosity. Rather
than struggle with the Dewey Decimal System and rummage through musty
stacks of dead-tree books, a simple Google or YouTube search instantly
brings a tsunami of articles, references, videos explaining Everything
about Everything.</p><p>So why does Aggressive Ignorance persist?</p><p>Because
Google, YouTube, X, Drudge etc., are News Aggregators, not Reporters or
Networks initiating stories we call the “News”. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN,
FOX, NPR are the media suppliers. And if the Media doesn’t report it,
citizens don’t – and most often won’t - know it. When diagnosing the
Aggressive Ignorance infecting the public, the Media is always to blame.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOSdtixeYbtc83nMX4a7VePCJ4sxqr2livMVK-Bxx_gpgVjUC0kds3xBq8tHeEwjkEfXllZslxunneUNd_ACBbtDJJ8WFk-0m4Q1QUFd-7kqiLRw66kxgTYwALFF9MQc-odZjLnXHvvZc53egNfymHCWA8SsLSADogwdzMyvqEEVTQQqgsSUG91k3B7U4/s273/nx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="185" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOSdtixeYbtc83nMX4a7VePCJ4sxqr2livMVK-Bxx_gpgVjUC0kds3xBq8tHeEwjkEfXllZslxunneUNd_ACBbtDJJ8WFk-0m4Q1QUFd-7kqiLRw66kxgTYwALFF9MQc-odZjLnXHvvZc53egNfymHCWA8SsLSADogwdzMyvqEEVTQQqgsSUG91k3B7U4/s1600/nx.jpg" width="185" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>What about politicians?</p><p>It
wasn’t National Geographic that observed “Leopards don’t change their
spots”. Going back to the Founding Dads, one would be hard pressed to
find a politician with his integrity intact. The romanced versions of
Washington, Adams, Jefferson & Co. gloss over their hypocrisy in
violating their own vaunted principles. However, compared with those who
populate the DC Swamp of Government today, the signers of the
Declaration were damn near saints. But they were still politicians and,
in this analogy, politicians are just like leopards.</p><p>Back in the
day, the media pulled no punches. Newspapers and periodicals fulfilled
their role as ‘watchdogs at the gate’, to inform, educate and
occasionally entertain the public.</p><p><span>Around the beginning of the 20</span><sup>th</sup><span>
century, that began to change. Newspapers, then radio, then television,
then cable and satellite TV “news” conglomerates morphed from
‘watchdog’ to ‘lap dog’; from serving the interests of the public by
revealing scurrilous skullduggery of politicians against “Liberty and
Justice for all”, to creating smoke screens of Fake News to hide the
crimes committed against the same people the media was to protect having
as their own protection: the First Amendment. Citizens continue to
suffer increasingly with Aggressive Ignorance and the cause is always
comes back to the Media.</span></p><p>The greater danger is Aggressive Ignorance leads to lost freedom, lost rights.</p><p><span>In the concluding chapter of </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty/dp/B0CP9VCNDH/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" rel="">“Last Rights; The Death of American Liberty”</a><span>, author Jim Bovard explains how it happens:</span></p><p>“Each
lost freedom becomes a domino falling against all the remaining rights
and liberties. Secrecy and censorship spur a deadly political spiral. If
the media is cowed into silence or turned into political accomplices,
citizens are unlikely to learn of proliferating abuses. If there is no
freedom of information, government officials can fabricate perils to
frighten people into ever greater submission. It then becomes easier to
justify expanding surveillance, thereby deterring people from voicing
criticism or even expressing wayward thoughts in emails. Once dissent is
stifled, rulers can contrive pretexts to restrict or prohibit protests.
Suppressing evidence of rising discontent enables politicians to
further aggrandize their power. Citizens may not recognize the totality
of their oppression until it is too late to resist.”</p><p>Secrecy and Censorship cannot exist without Media accomplices.</p><p>You
wouldn’t have read this far if you didn’t love Freedom and your
“inalienable rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.
Ignorance is your most lethal enemy. It exists through the culpability
of the Media.</p><p><span>“'In the end, </span><em>we</em><span> will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we</span><em><strong> </strong></em><span>understand and </span><em>we</em><span> will understand</span><em><strong> </strong></em><span>only what we are taught.' </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Dioum#:~:text=In%201967%2C%20Dioum%20became%20Director,the%20Senegalese%20Ministry%20of%20Agriculture." rel="">Baba Dioum</a></p><p>The
Media is our ubiquitous teacher. Censoring the challenges to our
freedom, the Media is teaching us to hate the things we love; to
misunderstand them, to ensure they will not be conserved, but
eradicated.</p><p>Do you “recognize the totality of [your] oppression”? Is it “too late to resist”?</p><p>Well?</p>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-36659787549823231302024-01-01T11:11:00.002-05:002024-01-03T17:27:10.126-05:00Cristmas Goodies!<p> </p><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"></div><div class="visibility-check"></div><p>Comedy – the Greatest Gift of All!</p><p>Charles Darwin said Humans were the only species that laughed (and a few other things!)</p><p>One thing (for me) to be Merry about this time of year is being retired from Music Radio.</p><p><span>Even
in my latter DJ days, most music stations were already trending
“Christmas Music – 24/7” starting right after Bird Day. At least back
then, we played Christmas </span><em>Music</em><span>. Today, I am
unable to define the nature or locate what phylum passes for ‘current
air play’. Sadly, Jill (Not a Doctor) Biden’s recently released “</span><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1735074586721468855" rel="">White House Christmas”</a><span>
abomination provides a video of that which should not be verbally
described in mixed company. Adele et al notwithstanding, today’s ‘pop
music’ is more shouting than singing. Those actually attempting to </span><em>sing</em><span> spend their vocal efforts searching for a note actually represented somewhere on the Chromatic scale. And fail.</span></p><p>But
enough about dissonance! Here’s some Christmas gifts of Comedy and
Music you can even sing along! At the end, there’s even a new Christmas
Tradition you may want to try!</p><p>Now, these are not traditional
tunes you’ve heard so often you know them backwards and in Latin. No,
these two ‘gifts’ you may have never heard before. Even if you have,
they sure aren’t being aired anywhere today and you’ll enjoy hearing
them again! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyWpKEJ5HvpUYSGn9fzsj5yDbs1oi95DikxfYHPfLkdKnRJr7D_C94w0fLIzbEyqJMM3dN8queFsyh_QvWabtTh3EhQqqNLfSv0UJvgIFRvma-XOYNvWjp7aJsrmqBQdSUrRZVpaYmY5d3MJsbieXoFmm1zHAalLsQxnPUNY469HsVrPDpODRaiM5zXNg/s299/emo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyWpKEJ5HvpUYSGn9fzsj5yDbs1oi95DikxfYHPfLkdKnRJr7D_C94w0fLIzbEyqJMM3dN8queFsyh_QvWabtTh3EhQqqNLfSv0UJvgIFRvma-XOYNvWjp7aJsrmqBQdSUrRZVpaYmY5d3MJsbieXoFmm1zHAalLsQxnPUNY469HsVrPDpODRaiM5zXNg/s1600/emo.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Gift #1</p><p><span>If you share my sense of contrarian humor, you’ll get kick out of </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q4RAORvySw" rel="">this one</a><span>
by occasional stand-up comic Kip Addotta, circa 1989. It burned out
some station phone lines and was banned at many until enough people
listened to the whole thing and heard it for the satire it is. I suspect
the Woke Folk today would not appreciate it even if they understood it.
No sense of humor!</span></p><p>Gift #2</p><p><span>If you have my
appreciation for Sarcasm as a second language and Irony as an art form,
this is the ultimate Christmas song. I admired Tom Lehrer’s work from
early on (late ‘50’s) and finally got the chance to interview him (early
00’s) on KSFO/San Francisco. Sadly, there is no air check of that great
conversation! Now 95 and still living in the Bay area, I’d wager he is
still a genuine curmudgeon today! Here is “</span><a href="https://youtu.be/DtZR3lJobjw" rel="">A Christmas Caro</a><span>l”.</span></p><p>Finally,
here is a Christmas “tradition” I invented when the kids were
young(er). You can start it at your place - even at this late date!</p><p>We
weren’t into the “Santa Claus” thing. Call it “overly pragmatic”.
Actually, what it really was: I didn’t want to lie to my kids nor did I
want them getting all starry-eyed over a make-believe dude who magically
bestowed many of the things they wished for while the Old Man faced the
“joy” of burgeoning AmEx bills in January. Knowing Who, How, and Where
their goodies came from directed all that appreciation and affection
where it rightfully belonged and strengthened the family accordingly.
Now that they’re all parents themselves, they continue the Wilson
Tradition with their kids.</p><p>Here’s the way it works.</p><p>Every
year, there was always the One Big Present talked about since school
started: Pony, computer, stereo, gun, car! Hints dropped like bowling
balls at every opportunity. Once secured, they’re seriously hidden. (My
brother and sister and I searched diligently when we were kids. No luck.
I figured my kids would do the same. They did. No luck.)</p><p>On
Christmas morning, after the other presents were opened, everyone went
to the tree to find their Personal Envelope. Inside was a note that
might read “Look under the couch” and the kid would scamper over to the
couch, looking, feeling and eventually finding…another envelope. “Look
under your little brother’s pillow”. Off she or he went. Game on!</p><p>You
get the picture: Maybe an hour passed with all 4 kids racing here,
there, upstairs, attic, basement, bedrooms, under/behind various
furniture, garage, car – wherever. Always another envelope, another
search.</p><p>Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson enjoyed our coffee and watched the action.</p><p>Remarkably,
they all found their Last Envelope about the same time. Of course, they
didn’t know it was the Last so when that search ended with the box that
contained the new rifle, stereo, wrist watch – screams and laughs broke
out and the New Thing was paraded around, fondled, shared (sorta) with
hugs and kisses galore. Merry Christmas, indeed!</p><p>Feel free to copy the plan! It makes for a great tradition – especially if you have kids and a camera handy!</p><p>The
“kids” are all in their 50’s now, the Envelope Game has passed on while
we have the bittersweet memories of Christmas History. </p><p>Thanks
for reading this far! Hope you enjoy whatever Day you’re celebrating –
even if it’s just Monday. At least we’re on the right side of the grass.</p><p>For
the Die-Hard News Junkies (like me) who may be looking for my regular
offering, here’s some links to some compelling reading you may have
missed…</p><p><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/victor-davis-hanson-civilization-versus-new-nihilists" rel="">Victor Davis Hanson</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1738375228282286499" rel="">Worth a Listen</a></p><p><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whatever-it-takes-wont-be-enough" rel="">Fellow traveler Jim Kunstler</a></p>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-41241300898592811152024-01-01T11:10:00.002-05:002024-01-03T17:30:32.132-05:00Can Freedom Exist Without Free Speech? <p><span>Consider the title of Jim Bovard’s latest piece for the Brownstone Institute, “</span><a href="https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/is-free-speech-a-relic-in-america/" rel="">Is Free Speech a Relic In American?”</a><span>.</span></p><p>Let’s take a look.</p><p> Are we allowed to openly talk about who controls our media?</p><p>Are we allowed to openly talk about who controls our politicians?</p><p>Are we allowed to openly talk about who controls our courts?</p><p>Are we allowed to openly talk about who controls our colleges?</p><p>Are we allowed to openly talk about who controls Hollywood?</p><p>Are we allowed to openly talk about who controls our advertising agencies?</p><p>Are we allowed to openly talk about who controls the Federal Reserve System?</p><p>Are we allowed to openly talk about who controls all of our financial institutions?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwRDrgwdNTz9_XvOx3vWxarl38THBB0e3mQk6oQaSwRYOWfjAcC5Yz-akWtWPknMtRfinvZz5b41l1VKehdNZqJb6cd4fAHIHzZ964PCN-uvj4YxP2Dw9VHY0y5h8DcVVH0KrTGQMQgNLHmAIVC-_n_ImEIs2itJFXdAR-Z9JMcGLA467WZXLTzNWqtA/s256/free.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="256" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwRDrgwdNTz9_XvOx3vWxarl38THBB0e3mQk6oQaSwRYOWfjAcC5Yz-akWtWPknMtRfinvZz5b41l1VKehdNZqJb6cd4fAHIHzZ964PCN-uvj4YxP2Dw9VHY0y5h8DcVVH0KrTGQMQgNLHmAIVC-_n_ImEIs2itJFXdAR-Z9JMcGLA467WZXLTzNWqtA/s1600/free.png" width="256" /></a></div><p>There’s
more but, I suspect most everyone reading this can noodle out the
answer: freedom of speech has indeed become a "relic" in our modern
times.</p><p>We're not allowed to talk openly about the obvious unless we want to be ostracized, fired or killed.</p><p>As
Bovard states: “’Government = truth’ is the premise for the Biden
censorship regime” -- and the primary goal of the Deep State caucus.</p><p>The Government has long realized “He who controls the media, controls the mind.” Norm Chomsky. Consider the source.</p><p>They
just don't want us speaking up anymore. Being critical of the regime is
a crime. If our voice had no power, they wouldn’t try to silence us.</p><p>Donald Trump’s picture is in the X-ring of the bulls-eye in Biden’s weaponized DOJ.</p><p>Most
all of Trump’s indictments come down to him believing the election was
fraudulent, and speaking about it. Any attempt to factually dissect the
basis for the others results in an intellectual backlash of ignorance,
jaded opinions, mis-information, political bias and outright lies.
Members of the Uniparty fear him for what he will do to their continued
exercise of unconstitutional power and generating stupendous income
outside of legal compensation. For the few remaining, their failure to
speak up can be traced to their innate altruistic tendencies, but mostly
the fear of losing re-election.</p><p>When MSM and Government weaponize
blatant lies with an agenda hiding behind the 1st Amendment; when there
is no willingness to perform due diligence on their reporting “facts”;
when the intent is to target a large swath of the public, considering
them enemies instead of fellow citizens, then the
Constitution transforms into a suicide pact.</p><p><span>Recent examples: </span><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cnn-town-hall-host-tries-disrupt-vivek-ramaswamy-he-reveals-truth-behind-j6" rel="">Talking over the Truth</a><span> and “</span><a href="https://jimbovard.com/blog/2023/12/14/n-y-post-congress-wants-to-unleash-federal-spies-at-your-hotel-and-coffee-shop/" rel="">Spies In Your Coffee Shop</a><span>” and “</span><a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-slams-congress-for-ndaa-vote-extending-mass-surveillance-program-with-no-reforms" rel=""><span>NDAA and Sect 702 Passed; 4</span><sup>th</sup><span> Amendment Looses”.</span></a></p><p><span>With
the loss of Free Speech, America is no longer a sovereign country, but a
public assembly manipulated by lies, waiting our turn to die. Who would
deny free speech forms the bedrock of a free and just society? When
citizens recognize free speech has become just a quaint “American
relic”, trust in any vestige of integrity in a duly elected government
will evaporate – in fact, </span><em>is</em><span> evaporating - with
the realization our rulers have achieved ‘Impunity Democracy’, from
self-governance to absolute dictatorship.</span></p>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-34561912369792770112023-12-29T15:48:00.002-05:002023-12-29T15:48:29.472-05:00NFSCD -- Brian Wilson and Conservator Don Williams S2 Ep 53<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;">The End of the Beginning or the Beginning of the End? Don Williams <a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14220111">returns to chat</a> about where we are and may be going.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidAByb2X60Q3uhnQqXn-0j91AIEfc1DJOO3jpCiKAT5ZeucN8tTia9jdhbODPqxvpKi61iiArwLhpF0ZIc4tpE3Nng8ewPR9zctp-itpQKQ1Lm6ubvFqe_91JxXBLUYIhOApXt7w8yf8xityalkXMlyanIEMu1DoTSld0fOjmxfc09sEIlth_Ro4g576A/s511/hourglass.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="511" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidAByb2X60Q3uhnQqXn-0j91AIEfc1DJOO3jpCiKAT5ZeucN8tTia9jdhbODPqxvpKi61iiArwLhpF0ZIc4tpE3Nng8ewPR9zctp-itpQKQ1Lm6ubvFqe_91JxXBLUYIhOApXt7w8yf8xityalkXMlyanIEMu1DoTSld0fOjmxfc09sEIlth_Ro4g576A/s320/hourglass.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://donsbarn.com/the-barn/about-don/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Don Williams</a> is a conservator, educator, scholar and all-around inquisitive guy, having worked on some of the most interesting objects and historic buildings in our nation's public and private collections. He has developed, managed and presented educational programming on an array of subjects in the fields of conservation, woodworking and wood finishing.<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.brianwilson.net/p/about-brian-wilson.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Brian Wilson</a> is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on <a href="https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Substack</a> and his <a href="http://www.brianwilson.net/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">website</a>. On Facebook, check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonspeaks" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Brian's page</a> along with his<a href="https://www.facebook.com/50Storiesbook" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> 50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio</a> page and of course, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonpodcast" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Now For Something Completely Different</a> Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Wilson/author/B071S2LB7Z?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-84283033059208948102023-12-27T16:33:00.003-05:002023-12-27T16:33:30.866-05:00NFSCD -- The Two and Only -- Brian Wilson and James Bovard S2 Ep 52<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">The End Is Near! Yes, the end of '23 and start of '24!</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14211026">The Two and Only - Brian Wilson and James Bovard look both ways!</a></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span><a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14211026"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhknIH2kPtbn10YoNUXBDnXJfpbgbRz6xz_R_6lWDHETIrm51HKHuKan6lR0HqbX5hhWiK6gxrcYpkGCJd7NifCHpdFMxCEqYm4HQjIfwM3Ao6LIoFtob4CJ7GUsjQTTYMooaCUcfbA8VcspAE9-VVWoP4WbctrNjzAkH02iNaZenzjwUDPYKKy9lTxLRU/s283/24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="283" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhknIH2kPtbn10YoNUXBDnXJfpbgbRz6xz_R_6lWDHETIrm51HKHuKan6lR0HqbX5hhWiK6gxrcYpkGCJd7NifCHpdFMxCEqYm4HQjIfwM3Ao6LIoFtob4CJ7GUsjQTTYMooaCUcfbA8VcspAE9-VVWoP4WbctrNjzAkH02iNaZenzjwUDPYKKy9lTxLRU/s1600/24.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /><br /><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" />Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Today and The New York Post and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/James-Bovard/author/B000AQ3XJE?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">11 books</a>, including his most recent -- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty/dp/B0CP8LFDXB/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;">Last Rights, The Death of American Rights</em></a>. Find out more on his website and follow him on Twitter/X <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBovard" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">@JimBovard</a>. <br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" /><p></p><br /><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><a href="https://www.brianwilson.net/p/about-brian-wilson.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Brian Wilson</a> is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on <a href="https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Substack</a> and his <a href="http://www.brianwilson.net/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">website</a>. On Facebook, check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonspeaks" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Brian's page</a> along with his<a href="https://www.facebook.com/50Storiesbook" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank"> 50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio</a> page and of course, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonpodcast" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Now For Something Completely Different</a> Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Wilson/author/B071S2LB7Z?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #f5b514;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-40247001768729843952023-12-26T06:17:00.004-05:002023-12-26T06:21:33.790-05:00The Silence Is Not Golden<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvj-02jrNyh22ycHsMe10YNUMI5X5iySyJaM2AxPasxWLzoNaNTO3I7H5zEgaLxBuywvS-ExkhM7rVbZ-Q20chA1ZkrtnZ21j9UZDQ3ELTUtTa4QD0HgrN9fdyP9Q6D1URm89-LIozO7Rp69z_DQoGvdV_6XXpX4hEfHM5C6vxWB_h5qmxnejeOwJH8UAD/s1024/mask.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvj-02jrNyh22ycHsMe10YNUMI5X5iySyJaM2AxPasxWLzoNaNTO3I7H5zEgaLxBuywvS-ExkhM7rVbZ-Q20chA1ZkrtnZ21j9UZDQ3ELTUtTa4QD0HgrN9fdyP9Q6D1URm89-LIozO7Rp69z_DQoGvdV_6XXpX4hEfHM5C6vxWB_h5qmxnejeOwJH8UAD/s320/mask.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <i>Important article from the Brownstone Institute's Jeffrey Tucker</i><p></p><p class="has-drop-cap" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At least the UK held public hearings, even if they were gamed from the start. There is a smidgeon of honesty that they held them at all. After all, the Covid era of public policy, in the US and all over the world, was the worst deployment of compulsory public policy in our lifetimes. It affected the whole of life in ways that were unthinkable even a year before. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was not an act of nature. It was designed and deployed by men in power. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A chronicle of what’s been shattered yields a litany of horribles: educational losses, ruined businesses, rampant mental illness, medical injury, homelessness, job upheaval and loss, depleted arts, wrecked families and communities, inflation, ruined national accounts, a generation of students traumatized, bitter political divisions, and a widespread lack of hope in the future. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That list is only a fraction of the cost. And the words above are anodyne to the real experiences of people. Whenever the subject comes up in private conversation, the result is a jaw-dropping accounting of personal despair and tragedy, often followed by tears under some circumstances. Constitutional government was shot and most of what we believed was and was not possible in public life was torched by the sheer ferocity of tyranny pushed by mostly unelected bureaucrats. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">None of what you just read is overtly disputed by anyone. Hardly anyone can be found today who defends what happened, except perhaps in the most sheepish terms, and nearly always with the obviously false proviso that “We just didn’t know then what we know now.” That seems like a shabby excuse for what’s resulted. These days – again, mostly in private conversations – hardly any apocalyptic prediction seems beyond the realm of plausibility. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The public silence over this entire subject is beyond bizarre. There are political conventions happening all over the country. They are attended by thousands. Everyone is rallying about and for something. But the Covid response hardly comes up. When it does, it is quick and perfunctory conversation and quickly dropped. The only two candidates who dwell on the topic at all – Ron DeSantis and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – are systematically marginalized and silenced, with large and active juntas of opposition working around the clock. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recall that all the mainstream media outlets cooperated at the time – together with all large tech platforms – in cheering on the Covid response from the lockdowns to the masks to the shot mandates, while actively silencing dissent. We have all the receipts we need to prove that they all acted at the behest of government actors. Given this history, perhaps it should not surprise us that they are silent today. No one wants to admit what they did to us. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As a result, hardly any revelations about Big Tech censorship, excess deaths, contaminated shots, misused funds, or corruption of public officials and academics get media attention at all. To many of us, what is happening and what is revealed daily amounts to a parade of scandals, except that the national media doesn’t care in the slightest. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Both political parties were involved. So keeping silent on this whole topic is the one thing for sure that both Biden and Trump forces agree on. They don’t even have to discuss it. They just know not to go there. Once voices sign up for one side or the other, they fall silent on this and act like nothing really happened. Biden is never asked about it, but then he is not asked about anything. Trump has only been asked a couple of times, and responds as if it was long ago, he did the right thing, and otherwise offers zero in the way of specifics, even though his administration’s response arguably wrecked his presidency. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Trump partisans have the strongest reason for silence, and enforcing that on everyone else. Trump greenlighted the lockdowns in March 2020. By the time he lost interest in the Covid response, the bureaucrats took over, and he was reduced to tweeting objections. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Even in September 2020 – after Scott Atlas had convinced him that it had all been a huge error – the CDC imposed an eviction moratorium that wrecked the property rights of millions of landlords, and kept that rule through the year. Did Trump approve them or was he powerless to stop them? In effect, after lockdowns, he was president in name only – a rather humiliating reality for a man who promised to use his awesome power to make America great again. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Huge corporate retailers gained massive advantages over their smaller and locally owned competition, driving many out of business. Not one of them has publicly spoken out about what turned out to be the luckiest break in their histories. Nor have they been questioned about a possible role in pushing for lockdowns and their prolongation, not even Amazon even though their founder is also owner of the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Washington Post</em> which pushed the Covid response for years and still does. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As for academia, most colleges and universities in the country shut down, locked kids in dorm rooms or banned them from campus, and then forced their students and faculty to get shots they did not need. Objecting to this led to major purges and cancellation, so most people stayed quiet. Hence the “best and brightest” have no reason to investigate or pursue justice. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thus does complicity in all these crimes against liberty, property, and personal autonomy disable what would otherwise be serious examinations of culpability. The result is the universal <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Long-Time-Never-Happened-Anyway/dp/0300192371" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 3px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: inherit; color: #ac3900; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">muttering</a>: “It was long ago and never happened anyway.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All this kind of socio-political analysis might explain the whole of the silence. Still, some of us cannot shake the sense that there is something else going on, something to do with the national-security state and the bioweapons program. Who said what to whom and how and why? We know for sure that whatever happened occurred between February 26 and March 13, 2020. Some people know for sure: Trump for one, but Tucker Carlson and Fauci and Farrar and many others besides. They know but they do not say. Why is this? What terrible secret is being whispered among the elites?</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Where is the curiosity to know what it is? After the Great War, there were years of hearings and resulting books and public debate. After the onset of the Great Depression, it was the same: many years of official investigations. It was the same after World War Two, the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, the S&L crisis of the 1980s, the Iran-Contra Affair, 9-11, and the 2008 financial crisis. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Looking carefully at a big episode and finding out what went wrong is a national ritual – or was. Why is this not happening now?</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3d1600; font-family: "Libre Caslon Text", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The silence is not golden. It’s dangerous. It is even treacherous. The Covid response ruined everything the world identified with America: freedom, rights, decentralism, commerce, individual liberty, and bravery in the face of trial. Governments together with all the commanding heights betrayed all those values. We need to know why. We need to know how. We need to know who. The silence could mean there is more to come. Which is to say that silence equals death. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3d1600; font-family: Libre Caslon Text, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/this-silence-is-not-golden/"> Brownstone Institute</a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #3d1600; font-family: Libre Caslon Text, serif;"><br /></span><p></p>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-15322496854287547602023-12-20T16:35:00.001-05:002023-12-20T16:35:11.590-05:00NFSCD -- The Two and Only -- Brian Wilson and James Bovard S2 Ep 51<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Truth in Washington! Join us for some laughs! Talk Show host Brian Wilson and Super Writer Jim Bovard, the Two and Only ride again!</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSwQSEsbxZa-cO8SOaLHpjAi83rcB56w5fvzF6MesDE_kZmjQNjY_wUM8GL8L3KRv86Br6XEXcfkPipBpexGmUZCGisWZq-xu2_IDcy8xhZGJsmj-Pi6Cmyj5tLtb4Ad6UBMtC_a97Ll1rAV04pBh0Uav_yNxqZEHtFhyOfd21COAfmj_ilHUoXgO9exo/s994/ocracy.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="994" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSwQSEsbxZa-cO8SOaLHpjAi83rcB56w5fvzF6MesDE_kZmjQNjY_wUM8GL8L3KRv86Br6XEXcfkPipBpexGmUZCGisWZq-xu2_IDcy8xhZGJsmj-Pi6Cmyj5tLtb4Ad6UBMtC_a97Ll1rAV04pBh0Uav_yNxqZEHtFhyOfd21COAfmj_ilHUoXgO9exo/s320/ocracy.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14182691"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></a></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14182691">Listen HERE</a></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-31023390434237154372023-12-13T17:14:00.003-05:002023-12-13T17:15:09.887-05:00NFSCD -- The Two and Only -- Brian Wilson and James Bovard S2 Ep 50<p> <span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 16px;">Responding to a diminishing number of requests, The Two and Only, talk show misanthrope Brian Wilson and</span><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 16px;"> </span><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;">Last Rights</em><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 16px;">author, James Bovard return to rehearse the eulogy for Free Speech and check on your privacy in the ICU.</span></p><p><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14143614">LISTEN HERE</a></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2wXhiJlh317P8IarAxeV1lxCC8jhD_BwYR0zliKj7Dqv9CKlgkHH2MMt748lDnsWuaIpr7-we6rPo9KJw0R6Z1gTz9wjOGwJfhc7mHo0oPmKDXc9K-YN-5Mrt7JzCaKjvdFuY7MU4yzGRsOPpuqsr-A9xfe7N3DnOC521ZMB3PuKMP-CsvWDbFkxIibM/s228/meme.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="221" data-original-width="228" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2wXhiJlh317P8IarAxeV1lxCC8jhD_BwYR0zliKj7Dqv9CKlgkHH2MMt748lDnsWuaIpr7-we6rPo9KJw0R6Z1gTz9wjOGwJfhc7mHo0oPmKDXc9K-YN-5Mrt7JzCaKjvdFuY7MU4yzGRsOPpuqsr-A9xfe7N3DnOC521ZMB3PuKMP-CsvWDbFkxIibM/s1600/meme.jpg" width="228" /></a></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;">Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Today and The New York Post and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/James-Bovard/author/B000AQ3XJE?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">11 books</a>, including his most recent -- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty/dp/B0CP8LFDXB/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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Find out more on his website and follow him on Twitter/X <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBovard" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">@JimBovard</a>. </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.brianwilson.net/p/about-brian-wilson.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Brian Wilson</a> is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on <a href="https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Substack</a> and his <a href="http://www.brianwilson.net/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">website</a>. On Facebook, check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonspeaks" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Brian's page</a> along with his<a href="https://www.facebook.com/50Storiesbook" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> 50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio</a> page and of course, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonpodcast" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Now For Something Completely Different</a> Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Wilson/author/B071S2LB7Z?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-69685989580715723232023-12-06T16:49:00.001-05:002023-12-06T16:49:46.953-05:00NFSCD -- The Two and Only -- Brian Wilson and James Bovard S2E49<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;">Surprise! Another raucous episode of the 2&O - Talk radio relic Brian Wilson nabs investigate journalist Jim Bovard for an unabashed look at current DC politics and the scumbuckets who work at it.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14102255">Listen here</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsvZqT0xSy1FVTkSVz7fXdudFEKe8JyGL1vhBjlzMXnUrlukmu3L0utnYTeu25Cp0KfediJQgoBJiJxqmx8TSbtMUyQLt2PK_6HuT3tNqkMNcLO3s_8VgXQhTbOt6oax1Ag5z8DZA5kiBUVl8koJJnQyOz3bRjjHtopmMpS0oavDJkf3aBgz-47IPjVoI/s288/2A).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="288" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsvZqT0xSy1FVTkSVz7fXdudFEKe8JyGL1vhBjlzMXnUrlukmu3L0utnYTeu25Cp0KfediJQgoBJiJxqmx8TSbtMUyQLt2PK_6HuT3tNqkMNcLO3s_8VgXQhTbOt6oax1Ag5z8DZA5kiBUVl8koJJnQyOz3bRjjHtopmMpS0oavDJkf3aBgz-47IPjVoI/s1600/2A).png" width="288" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-21212313640467535402023-11-30T17:28:00.000-05:002023-11-30T17:28:22.897-05:00Ode To An Icon -- An Unauthorized “Forward”<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My initial attempt can be found below. The reason it’s not up here at the beginning is, for an Ode, I wandered into the weeds of history in an effort to provide a background of appreciation, the motive for writing it in the first place. Not good for ‘Ode’ material. The Subject is the star. Despite a couple decades scribbling for fun and very little profit, my Writing Discipline obviously needs oodles of work. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">James Bovard is the star of this show. His latest work “Last Rights – The Death of American Liberty” should be released next week. Having had the privilege of a sneak peek at Chapter One, “Tyranny Comes to Main Street”. In my untrammeled opinion, “Last Rights” will be a well-earned Blockbuster. Anything less than a NYT “Best Seller” would be a sad testimony to the epidemic of Aggressive Ignorance and Contagious Apathy Jim’s books and articles have worked at inoculating citizens against for the 30 years I’ve known him. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Chapter One, “Tyranny Comes to Main Street”, comes on stronger than a wagonload of wet goats. Every sentence is an indictment of government tyranny writ plain and large. Reading a paragraph is to go a round with Mike Tyson, salient points landing like a left and a right, then an uppercut to the unprepared intellect of an uniformed reader. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">This is Bovard at his Best. Over the years, many have rooted for Jim to cut loose, write exactly what he knows and thinks - but there were ‘editors’, some with ideological or tolerance issues. His inestimable knowledge from experience with What’s Going On in the dank depths of the DC Swamp, its proxies and inhabitants would be devastating if exposed. And now it is.</span><br /><br />“</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">We have an Impunity Democracy in which government officials pay no price for their crimes. Americans today are more likely to believe in witches, ghosts, and astrology than to trust the federal government. Washington’s legitimacy is in tatters thanks to a long train of bipartisan perfidy. If government is lawless, elections merely designate the most dangerous criminals in the land. <br /><br />At a time when foreign democracies are collapsing like dominos, can America avoid becoming the “elective despotism” the Founding Fathers dreaded? The first step to reviving liberty is to recognize how far politicians have stretched their power. But nothing can safeguard freedom except the bravery of citizens who refuse to be shackled.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">” <br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"> Well? Are you one of the ‘brave citizens? Read “Last Rights” and find out. You might be amazed. Wake up and wake up those you love before that last domino crushes your future.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ode to an Icon</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">First it was
“Lost Rights – The Destruction of American Liberty” in 1994. By 1999 and the
arrival of “Freedom In Chains”, Jim Bovard had become more than a regular guest
on my various talk shows in major markets across the country. With each book
that followed, we’d get together for another on-air yap fest. In between books,
there were articles, C-PAC meetings, Libertarian conventions and my “beer appreciation classes” at select
DC hangouts. All added a depth of education and appreciation for the intricacies
of Writing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">While the beer
appreciation never rose to a head, my study and admiration for Jim’s writing
style and ‘messaging’ spread like deep south kudzu – but in a good way. I had
been scribbling screeds in one place or another during my flamboyant DJ years,
usually retaliating for some criticism of the show by a local reporter or “columnist”
in the local rag. Occasionally effective, they weren’t the best way to advance
what I considered reasonably interesting observations of the events of the day,
something that had become more important after morphing from DJ into Talk Show
Host, sanctified by being selected for AM Drive on WABC/NY circa 1983. So I
scribbled on. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After a
decade of more Miss than Hit, enter Jim Bovard. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">During one subsequent
off-air conversation, I mentioned the writing thing. Jim was very supportive.
After reviewing a few trial balloons, Jim encouraged me to submit one to Lew
Rockwell, founder and chairman of the Mises Institute and host of LewRockwell.com
where Jim and other champions of Liberty are found. Despite OD’ing on
Aprehension and Intimidation, I offered my first submission. Wonder of Wonders,
it was accepted! Published October 16, 2003. Twenty years and 94 articles
later, my 95<sup>th</sup> was included in the 11/20 edition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the interim, I started my own blog, wrote 2 books, started a Substack series, and launched 2
podcasts, one of which – “The Two and Only” – features Jim Bovard as my
indicted co-conspirator. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">None of these would have happened without the Full Monty encouragement, inspiration and occasionally nudged guidance from a pro. Jim Bovard.</span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjzsnWxY4i10QlmhzmoS4vOFj2dpg3Kd49DMLCkhl6kCkk-jtsl2eN2Mx-lLSXa4DnvK3ab8z6gn18-z6eOGdztxgUv7K1dvbJrrgtEMXtbFA8YxR2xd2yUgTmNeu4rPw2IYbNU0kj3bDr7xmuPhAb9o3jUIJnXrvTMXleS_D63Xj8XHuxbE0pegTYqbyA/s291/Last-rights-SMALL-cropped-cover-without-vignetting-sized-for-twitter-jpegs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="200" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjzsnWxY4i10QlmhzmoS4vOFj2dpg3Kd49DMLCkhl6kCkk-jtsl2eN2Mx-lLSXa4DnvK3ab8z6gn18-z6eOGdztxgUv7K1dvbJrrgtEMXtbFA8YxR2xd2yUgTmNeu4rPw2IYbNU0kj3bDr7xmuPhAb9o3jUIJnXrvTMXleS_D63Xj8XHuxbE0pegTYqbyA/s1600/Last-rights-SMALL-cropped-cover-without-vignetting-sized-for-twitter-jpegs.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-12784589275222517962023-11-29T17:36:00.002-05:002023-11-29T17:36:33.720-05:00NFSCD -- The Two and Only -- Brian Wilson and James Bovard S2 Ep. 48<p> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
2 & Only ride again! The Post-Bird Day episode featuring the <i><b>Big
Announcement</b></i> about Jim Bovard's new book and Brian Wilson's Substack column
skewering Transgenderism. And a borderline Johnny Carson joke...! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14059447">Listen HERE</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPL_3KttMol9YwJuQe6SPWXeSDRWUD0YZ69gVEn1zzbR0LHivqrTo1HwGXR5W4UuMm9ImJzhGWVhgKTr04iMqIn0oJFQk4v6nofz1L25endI7Y7GDeYzLC88JSWlb9OajG7W_JIPyFfT-MEfbn_nY1TR6gM8qC_3KGxYR2C8RAzEZSLzqYkamKhzrtSY8/s288/2A).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="288" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPL_3KttMol9YwJuQe6SPWXeSDRWUD0YZ69gVEn1zzbR0LHivqrTo1HwGXR5W4UuMm9ImJzhGWVhgKTr04iMqIn0oJFQk4v6nofz1L25endI7Y7GDeYzLC88JSWlb9OajG7W_JIPyFfT-MEfbn_nY1TR6gM8qC_3KGxYR2C8RAzEZSLzqYkamKhzrtSY8/s1600/2A).png" width="288" /></a></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;">Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Toda</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;">y and The New York Post and the author of </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/James-Bovard/author/B000AQ3XJE?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">11 books</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;">, including his most recent -- </span><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;">Last Rights, The Death of American Rights</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;">. Find out more on his website and follow him onTwitter/X </span><a href="https://twitter.com/JimBovard" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">@JimBovard</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;">. </span></p><p><a href="https://www.brianwilson.net/p/about-brian-wilson.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Brian Wilson</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;"> is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on </span><a href="https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Substack</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;"> and his </span><a href="http://www.brianwilson.net/" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">website</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;">. 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Brian's books can be found on </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Wilson/author/B071S2LB7Z?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;">.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061632482582835364.post-47199735587616157262023-11-29T08:38:00.002-05:002023-11-29T17:15:14.393-05:00The Evil Some Men Do -- But “Why”?<p> </p>
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Evil and those who practice it have been around for a while. Who they are, What they do and Where they do it is easy to compute; When shows up in the headlines eventually. “Why” is the tough one. <br /><br />The sudden appearance of ‘transgenderism, ‘gender fluidity’ and the gruesome stories that followed baffled me and, I suspect, most everyone who pays attention. Nothing so detrimental to an entire society spontaneously combusts. Who could be the prime motivator behind something so ghastly? <br /><br />Much of the answer can be found in Hillsdale College’s “<a href="https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/inside-the-transgender-empire/?fbclid=IwAR3rC_CzDwCe6O4odSQA-BkPNNiLi0wce3AcZMMXje3NRV_nnE4A_OJdwQ4">Imprimis</a>”, “Inside the Transgender Empire”. Author Christopher F. Rufo writes: <br /><br /> “In the late 1980s, a group of academics, including Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Sandy Stone, and Susan Stryker, established the disciplines of “queer theory” and “transgender studies.” These academics believed gender to be a “social construct” used to oppress racial and sexual minorities, and they denounced the traditional categories of man and woman as a false binary that was conceived to support the system of “heteronormativity”—i.e., the white, male, heterosexual power structure. This system, they argued, had to be ruthlessly deconstructed. And the best way to achieve this, they argued further, was to promote transgenderism. If men can become women, and women men, they believed, the natural structure of Creation could be toppled.” <br /><br />While normal reactions – repulsive, outrageous, disgusting, abhorrent, megalomaniacal, psychopathic, narcissistic, egomaniacal – are understandable, Rufo’s otherwise excellent piece didn’t answer my perpetually burning question: Why? <br /><br />Yes, four ‘academics’ come up with ‘queer theory’ and ‘transgender studies’ because they carried this big chip of resentment and hostility making ‘heteronormativity’ their (un) Holy Grail. While a game-winning Scrabble entry, where was that word prior to the Butler, Rubin, Stone, Stryker meet-up? Apparently it didn’t even exist until 1991 when some ‘literary critic and social theorist’ (Yale) used it in a discussion of ‘queer theory’. <br /><br />So what? <br /><br />Rufo’s piece provides the twisted historical skullduggery that mainlined the ‘movement’ straight into the circulatory system of public education where it spread like COVID and just as destructive to American society, health care, business, government, even the military. <br /><br />But why? <br /><br />In a 2008 speech, Susan Stryker described his work as “a secular sermon that unabashedly advocates embracing a disruptive and refigurative genderqueer or transgender power as a spiritual resource for social and environmental transformation.” <br /><br />In common abbreviated parlance: WTF does that even mean? Aside from having done fairly well on his early vocab tests, subsequently achieving Olympic intellectual masturbation techniques, what value to society is there in any syllable of his screed? <br /><br />Rufo continues: “In Stryker’s best-known essay, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage,” he contends that the “transsexual body” is a “technological construction” that represents a war against Western society. “I am a transsexual, and therefore I am a monster,” Stryker writes. And this monster, he continues, is destined to channel its “rage and revenge” against the “naturalized heterosexual order”; against “‘traditional family values’”; and against the “hegemonic oppression” of nature itself.” <br /><br />This isn’t some profound revolutionary pronouncement of a budding “academic” genius; this is “<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072431/">the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind”</a>. <br /><br />But, in one sense, it is revealing. This ‘movement’ is entirely political. The ‘health care’ concerns spouted by the advocates of these monstrosities is the same fog of bullshit that rolls in whenever truth and motive need to be obscured, lest they laughed all the way to the city dump. <br /><br />But we still don’t know Why. Why do otherwise functional, sentient human beings dedicate their talents – whatever they may be – to something so wantonly depraved and destructive? From what depths does such high octane hate come from? Secondarily, why hasn’t anyone in a position of authority told the cheerleaders of this mental illness to pound sand? Why have school systems, businesses of all types, warmly embraced the Drag Queen? The Queer Day? And the damage to adolescents with ‘puberty blockers’ and, worst, the mutilation of children with ‘sex reassignment’ surgery. Does the Hippocratic Oath have an exception for this? What about the <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/are-parents-behind-the-surge-in-transgender-children-5526532?utm_source=epochHG&utm_campaign=CFP&src_src=epochHG&src_cmp=CFP">parents who enthusiastically support these atrocities</a> even when intentionally inflicted on their own child!? <br /><br />Why…?</span><div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5EG_xJZjkBb1hylzt2e1AcNQI3IQEzWOFVVSR5yx49_uNmnlxdDs2suApNCDUehvH7_kFjJuu9x0QKsrSmEEK2kJuECo85Up3nq1hEcctJi5Rk8DdhkdCgisxKAiEs_FAOZNSgnlvicx6DEW-STUiOxz7KNora2b7OUDDB_dEfOhggzEh0eOOnII8ZoY/s250/xxx%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="250" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5EG_xJZjkBb1hylzt2e1AcNQI3IQEzWOFVVSR5yx49_uNmnlxdDs2suApNCDUehvH7_kFjJuu9x0QKsrSmEEK2kJuECo85Up3nq1hEcctJi5Rk8DdhkdCgisxKAiEs_FAOZNSgnlvicx6DEW-STUiOxz7KNora2b7OUDDB_dEfOhggzEh0eOOnII8ZoY/s1600/xxx%20(2).jpg" width="250" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><br /><br />OK – once you understand the level of mental illness that spawned all this; once you realize the knee-jerk alliance with politics required to force by law acceptance of the seriously abnormal, what’s left? <br /><br />Money and power are the easy and obvious answers. Rufo’s piece records the direct link of money to the power of politics that mandated the transgender agenda into Illinois public school curriculum – and beyond. <br /><br />Still, this isn’t the Why I’ve been searching for. Maybe I’m using the wrong interrogatory. <br /><br />Maybe the question is Where. As in Where do these psychologically unstable persons come from? What is their history? What traumas and other horrors brought them to this place to perform their brand of Evil? Certainly no one in their right mind could study the ‘transgender movement’ with all its tentacles and conclude it’s ‘normal’, ‘proper’, ‘advantageous’, ‘logical’ for Society. Its own mission statement it to destroy Society as we know it and declare the ashes righteous! All because it suits their warped view, wrapped in big words, bandied about among the “Elite” who unanimously agree it’s Progressive and ‘for the greater good’. <br /><br />Still, how could that be? “Four academics” armed with a mutual bias for “queer theory” can monkey-wrench an entire civilization? There are 330 million people in America. No report, study or ‘poll’ has proven a majority of those millions believe this is all a really swell idea. <br /><br />And maybe, therein lies the answer: it’s in the math. <br /><br />Among 330 million people, 1% are propagandized as being ‘the Elite’, ‘Best and Brightest’, the celebrated Delphic Oracles the media runs to for advice and guidance; age aside, they are the Elders of Our Tribe. Or so ‘they’ say. <br /><br />Mathematically, then, 3 million plus of our fellow citizens have been unilaterally assigned (or assumed) the position of All-Wise, All-Knowing. The Crème de la Crème, the Top 10 of which include Bloomberg, Buffet, Gates, Zuckerburg, and Bezos. Their combined worth exceeds $500 billion. George Soros? A piker! #92 of the 100 richest with only 8.6B.<br /><br />Now, no one is perfect, even among the Elite. So there must be some pretty warped people somewhere in the group. Considering the personalities above, do you see Normal? Benevolent? Kindly? Charitable? Do you think a <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/malevolent#:~:text=adjective-,1.,evil%3B%20harmful%3B%20injurious">malevolent</a> individual with unimaginable wealth might be positioned to put into effect the evil designs he wishes to impose on everyone else? Look what George Soros has done at #92 with a paltry $8.6 billion. Stories abound about Bill Gates #4, $134 billion. Did he really conspire with Fauci on the COVID “plandemic”? Is he really gobbling up thousands of acres of farm land, planning to eliminate beef for human consumption? Zuckerburg obediently followed FBI orders to censor conservative Americans and, allegedly, paid to manipulate the results of a presidential election. <br /><br />Maybe we can accurately conclude the ‘Why’ of Evil comes from mentally, emotionally disturbed wealthy, powerful people who, from whatever cause that effectively warped their intellectual development, are determined to use their phenomenal resources to inflict their ‘visions’ (‘nightmares’ to you and me) on the rest of us. Naturally, their dystopian wonderland with all its new ‘privileges’ will not be the world they live in; that would be just too plebian. <br /><br />Whether it’s a warped sexual agenda seriously harming children and society, commercial intervention that works contrary to a free market, political manipulations to abridge freedom, liberty and exercise of our human rights or any of the myriad of attacks against our humanity, something Evil this way comes. It is inexorable without our constant awareness, preparation and inexhaustible efforts to stand against it – and those who perpetrate it every day. </span><div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Note: After publication of the above, <a href=" https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/are-parents-behind-the-surge-in-transgender-children-5526532?utm_source=epochHG&utm_campaign=CFP&src_src=epochHG&src_cmp=CFP">this article </a>appeared with additional compelling - albeit revolting - information.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div> </div></div>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0