Happy Independence Day!

I'd love to be able to put up an upbeat, patriotic post like B-Daddy.

But in these dark times, I just don't feel it. We've got police goon squads murdering innocent people in their homes, the TSA molesting children and taking diapers off of elderly invalids, an imperial President waging illegal war on Libya, and an unaccountable Federal Reserve that destroyed the economy with easy money now claiming to be its savior with easy money.

Given where we are today, the song I feel is Neal Fox's beautiful We're All Gonna Be There.



I'm still in love with the America our founding fathers gave us, with the idea of America. But the country we live in isn't that America any more. Maybe we can get that America back. But it's going to take a lot of work from a fat, complacent populace. Resist the TSA. Vote out the warmongers and Ruling Class. End the Fed. If not for your own sake, for the children.

Greenspan's Body Count: Dusan and Renata Klein

It's not easy spending one's life hot on the trail of the 21st century's most prolific serial killer, Alan Greenspan. I am the Javert to Greenspan's Jean Valjean, the Clouseau to his Pink Panther.

But having spent these years tracking the fiend, I have come to know him like no other.

And so it was that I recognized his modus operandi in the killings of Dusan and Renata Klein, before Dusan's body had been found and before even news of the couple's financial distress was made public.

The sad case of Dusan and Renata Klein came to an end Friday as Dusan's body was found on a hiking trail in the Las Vegas area. He had apparently committed suicide after killing Renata and dumping her in the Angeles National Forest. The dog has not been found, but investigators reportedly found canine blood in the family truck and believe Dusan killed her, too.

Alan Greenspan is still walking the streets, and even giving interviews on CNBC.

Greenspan's Body Count stands at 179.

War on Drugs: To the Victor, the Spoils

"Fresh blow for NY prosecutor" - headline, Financial Times, July 1, 2011

Schwarzenegger marriage ends same day as Schwarzenegger tax increases

How poetic. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who ruined his family like he ruined California, sees his treachery come back to haunt him on both counts today.

Maria Shriver filed for divorce today, the same day that the despised Schwarzenegger tax increases on the people of Kahleefornia expired. As an added bonus, Schwarzenegger's kids hate him as much as the people of California do, so much that they are dropping his last name.

Not that I'm in orgasmic spasms of Schadenfreude or anything.

To steal the words of the venerable Frank Langone, "Everybody has his own private hell. I just hope Schwarzenegger's is a little hotter than everyone else's."

Friday night music chill*

* to steal a theme from Liberator Today and Beers with Demo

Ladies and gentlemen, the genius of John Prine:



I first heard this song on an old hippie folk radio station in San Diego in 1995 before corporate radio took over. I was transfixed and had to buy the album immediately. The tune is catchy as hell, and the lyrics are sublime. You can read it as a celebration of live-and-let-live libertarianism, which I did and do, and the video suggests he means to take it even further as a celebration of victimless vices.

I've lived many lives and been many people since then, but hearing that song today is like hearing it for the first time.

You can order the CD here.

Air Force Times: Obama is Lying

Air Force Times:

Air Force and Navy aircraft are still flying hundreds of strike missions over Libya despite the Obama administration’s claim that American forces are playing only a limited support role in the NATO operation.

An Africa Command (AFRICOM) spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday that since NATO’s Operation Unified Protector (OUP) took over from the American-led Operation Odyssey Dawn on March 31, the U.S. military has flown hundreds of strike sorties. Previously, Washington had claimed that it was mostly providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and tanker support to NATO forces operating over Libya.

War is peace!

Economic Armageddon and You

An excellent primer on the Obama-Bernanke Ponzi Economy. W.C. Varones readers already know this stuff, but please share it with your less-informed friends and relatives.