Category Archives: Buried Logic

The Shakeout for The Brian Brawdy Show Will Be Live

By Brian Brawdy | Published: July 24, 2010

I think you call it a “Shakeout.” Where you give an idea a “dry run” before you go live with the real, full-on version. Working out the kinks, looking for any bugs, any flaws in your plan? Apparently, I’m not all that bright.

The mobile studio (my Lance Camper and Trailer) is ready for its first test. Yikes! The live-kickoff is finally here for The Brian Brawdy Show. You and I will find out together just how crazy an idea this is.

This afternoon at 5:00 PM EST I will broadcast live from The Rally at the Kentucky Exposition Center via MotoSat Satellite to Livestream.com/brianbrawdy.

Now, if everything goes correctly, you will be able to comment via Twitter and Facebook while the show is in progress. Next week, the live call- in aspect will be added as will the full audio/video/graphics package.

So, before you hop in the shower and get ready for your Saturday night, please join me for the launch with my special guest, Bob Livingston.

I would like to extend a very personal “thank you” to Mr. Keith Olbermann for his terribly instrumental roll in finally pushing me over the edge or as I like to call it, “Kudos to Keith.”

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Nullification: Our Constitution as the Safeguard of Federal Tyranny

By Brian Brawdy | Published: July 18, 2010

The framers of our Constitution drafted it with one, and only one group in mind. And though few are aware of it, it was not written for branches of government, political officials, lawyers, career politicians, special interest groups and bureaucrats. Notwithstanding the opinions of scholars, teachers and the Needia (my term for media), the United States Constitution was written for the people, regular folks, you and me.

I know, it sounds corny, but there you have it. It wasn’t written for them, it was written for us. The Constitution doesn’t entrench political power in anyone other than the people.

The founders built our Constitution to act like a raincoat; you pick the size, the color, the design, the particular fabric employed yet in the end the Constitutional raincoat was created as a piece of foul weather gear. As the government rains down on the electorate, your outerwear shields you, wicking the unconstitutional away like water off a ducks back. The Constitution was designed to protect us from the storm.

I just finished a powerful book by the New York Times Best Selling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr. It’s one of those books you read and then immediately re-read to make sure you didn’t miss anything. Nullification: How To Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century is such a book. It dramatically highlights why we all need to learn how to become political survival experts.

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Keith Olbermann the Motivation Behind the Brian Brawdy Show

By Brian Brawdy | Published: July 15, 2010

The very first time I contemplated my own news commentary show, the thought came to me immediately following a viewing of the Keith Olbermann Show on MSNBC. Setting the remote down, I shook my head and thought aloud, “You’ve got to be kidding me.” My countdown was on. Starting July, 24th (originally the 22nd) I will be streaming via the web The Brian Brawdy Show.

My goal? To gain as many web viewers as Mr. Olbermann has Nielsen numbers. Plain and simple.

Granted, I don’t have “an Ivy League education” like my competition. I went to West Virginia University, and though I did major in Political Science, I spent more time at the Blue Tick Tavern practicing quarter bounce than attending class, so my stay was short lived. I think I have 6 whole credit hours with a minor in french fries and blu cheese. Clearly, I’m overly qualified for the job at hand and I am so excited to start piling up the numbers, but I will need your help. Your suggestions, critiques and viewership are most certainly welcome.

You might also consider the latest dust-up on The Daily Caller. Seems Tucker Carlson and the DC crew now own KeithOlbermann.com and my main media rival isn’t happy.

This is going to be a blast!

That said, challenging Mr. Olbermann is just a side note.

Centering on “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” in every day ways, the Brian Brawdy Show, full of attitude without apology focuses on breaking news, commentary, political analysis and techniques for surviving and thriving in a world where freedom and liberty are waning. With roughly 70,000 pages added to the Federal Register every year, enacted laws, rules and codes are encroaching upon our liberties at every level of government and at an alarming rate.

I’ve always focused on wilderness and emergency survival, I just never thought circumstances would necessitate becoming a political survival expert as well. The 21st Century and the current political climate changed all of that.

As the countdown continues, please feel free and encouraged to…

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Why the 2nd Amendment Debate Is as Important as any Other

By Brian Brawdy | Published: July 1, 2010

Getting to the bottom of the ongoing debate about the 2nd Amendment is fairly straightforward and easy once you realize it has little to do with handguns and other firearms. The conflict boils down (and most times over) to one question that truly isn’t about gunpowder and bullets. The politics surrounding this particular amendment to the United States Constitution comes down to the most basic, innate of human rights.

Do you believe we have inalienable rights, God given rights? Or do you believe that your rights are really permissions granted to you by the government? Does the Constitution give you rights or does the Constitution protect hereditary, native rights? Are your rights yours, or lent to you by decree? Are they birth rights or borrowed rights?

Protected or Granted? YOU make the call!

In the recent 5-4 Supreme Court Decision, the debate came down to the above questions. Is it possible that the four dissenting Justices believe in Government given, not God given rights?

It is laughable that some use the “dangerous nature” of firearms to support the restriction of our 2nd Amendment, inalienable right to “keep and and bear arms” fully ignoring that the right to free religious thought, speech, press and assembly protected by the 1st Amendment can also produce dangerous situations and circumstances as well. Rhetoric can be as dangerous as a loaded revolver at times.

How many wars were triggered over words? The first volley fired is most times verbal, is it not?

Will we next surrender the right to free speech, an unencumbered press or religious assembly because law makers and Justices think our society would be safer if we did so? Should we allow legislation to take our cars, motor cycles, airplanes and the like? We would all be much “safer” if we did. If we gave up Christianity we would be safer from Al-Qaeda attacks. If we gave up democracy then maybe China and Russia would stop trying to bring us down. That sounds like a safer world, no super powers threatening to annihilate each other?

Trading inalienable rights for the promise of safety is a dangerous, slippery slope.

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Hiker Surviving in Wilderness Outlasts Expectations

By Brian Brawdy | Published: June 23, 2010

LOST doesn’t mean Lost for Good. For all of our frailty, all of our short comings, human beings can survive against tremendous odds. Though many believe that wilderness highlights human weakness, once again a survival story, this time of a missing Colorado woman reminds us just how resilient we can be.

I know it sounds impossible, even highly unlikely but we can survive without food, custom shelter and excess water in some pretty wild situations and for a decent amount of time.

I still believe survival is a mindset, a train of thought void of panic and feebleness. Today, we are conditioned to believe that survival is dependent on a backpack full of gear and a mind full of learned skills, to successfully survive. It’s more about temperament than technology, more mental than mechanical. What we need, thank goodness, we already possess. It’s in us.

You and I are a product of thousands of years of walking out into the wild, Eden or Africa, and making our way to the end of the day. Humans, if nothing else, are survivors.

Survivors First. Consumers, a distant second.

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Liberty is an Attitude

By Brian Brawdy | Published: June 20, 2010

Liberty is an attitude. Whatever else you decide to call it, freedom, autonomy or self-reliance, liberty is an approach to life. As such, it is both a viewpoint and a standpoint, a line drawn in your own sand, marking a position you refuse to surrender. It’s the passion you choose to personally cultivate what John Adams called “the bloom of Life.”

Now some people choose to surrender their “bloom” to the Bonsai mindset. They look outside themselves to be “tray planted” according to the Japanese etymology. Forfeiting the trowel, the potting soil and the shears, others prune and artificially trim the tiny mind, prohibiting it from maturing and reaching its natural potential; a mighty tree continually clipped, reduced to a stunted shrub.

The self-imposed nature of this strange botany is as abnormal and unnatural as any other human trait. At the macro level, when a majority of a population adopts the Bonsai mindset, liberty throughout the culture is lost.

Government, contrary to popular belief, doesn’t grant you the privilege of liberty, the Divine bestows it at birth; the very operating system of the Human soul. It is this natural combination of Life and Liberty that fuels the “pursuit of Happiness” immortalized by the U.S. Constitution.

Guarding against the collective Bonsai mindset is the greatest challenge of our time.

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Memorial Day: For Those That Stand and Guard the Bridge

By Brian Brawdy | Published: May 31, 2010

Watching my local Memorial Day parade this morning with color guards, bands and firetrucks passing the crowds of flag-waving families and friends gathered on both sides of Main Street, the name Horatius was front and center in my mind. So, in honor of those military members that have given their lives defending our country, and for those currently doing so, I thought I might paraphrase the poem Horatius by Thomas Babbington Macaulay.

Confronted by a hostile advancing army, the leaders of Rome met. They needed to destroy their only bridge into the city before the enemy could cross it and sack Rome itself. They were nearly out of time…

“They held a council standing,

Before the River-Gate;

Short time was there, ye well may guess,

For musing or debate.

Out spake the Consul roundly:

“The bridge must straight go down;

For, since Janiculum is lost,

Nought else can save the town.”

The poem continues..

“Just then a scout came flying,

All wild with haste and fear:

“To arms! to arms! Sir Consul:

Lars Porsena is here.”

On the low hills to westward

The Consul fixed his eye,

And saw the swarthy storm of dust

Rise fast along the sky.”

The verse continues as the attackers draw closer….

“But the Consul’s brow was sad,

And the Consul’s speech was low,

And darkly looked he at the wall,

And darkly at the foe.

“Their van will be upon us

Before the bridge goes down;

And if they once may win the bridge,

What hope to save the town?”

“Then out spake brave Horatius,

The Captain of the Gate:

“To every man upon this earth

Death cometh soon or late.

And how can man die better

Than facing fearful odds,

For the ashes of his fathers,

And the temples of his gods…”

Horatius continues…

““Haul down the bridge, Sir Consul,

With all the speed ye may;

I, with two more to help me,

Will hold the foe in play.

In yon strait path a thousand

May well be stopped by three.

Now who will stand on either hand,

And keep the bridge with me?”

“Then out spake Spurius Lartius;

A Ramnian proud was he:

“Lo, I will stand at thy right hand,

And keep the bridge with thee.”

And out spake strong Herminius;

Of Titian blood was he:

“I will abide on thy left side,

And keep the bridge with thee.””

The inspiring poem goes on with Horatius, Lartius and Herminius holding off the attackers until the bridge comes crashing down; their robust bravery saved the city of Rome and the day.

Be it this story or the story of the bravery of 300 Spartans, it’s hard to miss the same unshakable courage, fortitude, guts and grit of our fighting men and women today. Regardless of your opinion in politics, the various wars currently under way and the deployment of the U.S. Military around the world, what we cannot debate or escape is the human boldness, unshakable nerve and daring heroism of our Army, Marines, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, Reserves and Guard Members serving to hold the bridge and the gate.

This Memorial Day, even if just for a second, remember the bravery and honor that has come before you!

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United States the Most Gullible Country on the Planet?

By Brian Brawdy | Published: May 28, 2010

BREAKING NEWS: U.S. looking to become “The most gullible country on the planet.” Just how easy are we to persuade or deceive? How totally gullible must we seem to politicians, corporate America, lobbyists and media reporters? Watch any news cycle, read any group of blog posts and you truly have to actively suspend your sense of intelligence, your disbelief and your gut feelings or intuition. As we’re spoon-fed the spin, we seem content sucking it up and swallowing it down. It seems that believing the bravado and BS, duped by the disinformation is now a U.S. pastime.

How thick or how shallow, how dense or foolish must one be to drink the constant flow of Kool-Aid we are offered these days? True, the vapid and the vacuous walk among us. You can’t debate it. That said, what percentage of the voting population falls for the fairy-tail du jour each and every day?

Now I know what you are thinking. President Obama can stop the oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, BP didn’t brake and rules or laws leading up to the disaster, President Clinton didn’t offer Joe Sestak a position of value to drop out of the race with Arlen Specter, the National Guard will stop illegal immigration on our southern border, and the health care bill isn’t about redistributing of wealth and on and on and on. Blah, blah, blah.

Soon you will find a daily “Gullibility Index” here on BrianBrawdy.com. Not unlike a UV or Pollen index, graded on a scale of 1-10, each day I will follow the stories making news and, with the help of my friends on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace will calculate a mathematical dip-stick highlighting just how naive you and I would have to be to trust in what we are being told.

It’s not about conspiracy theories, it’s about common sense, which of late, isn’t as common or as sensical as the term would suggest.

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President Obama, Goldman Sachs and Texas Holdem

By Brian Brawdy | Published: April 20, 2010

You don’t have to be in to the game of Chess or even Texas Holdem to appreciate good strategy when you see it? Each game requires tremendous skill, mental strength and cunning. Visualizing a half a dozen moves in advance, of both yours and your opponents, is only the beginning of the contest. Making the abstract, both current and future, crystalize at just the perfect moment is the key to winning the game.

You needn’t go far to witness the one of the greatest chess/poker matches of all time. Pay close attention for the end game is already taking shape in the Goldman Sachs headlines of today.

That the announcement of Goldman’s trouble with the SEC is timed so perfectly with the financial reform debate brewing on Capital Hill is a classic strategy. Add Senators Dodd’s initial “reform” bill, the Oval Office playing hardball much earlier than they did with the health care reform legislation and now the introduction of former White House counsel, Gregory Craig and you can tell we are in for one hell of a match.

That Robert Khuzami, the new Security and Exchange Commission’s enforcer-knight, waited to bring the case until now shouldn’t surprise anyone. Leading with an opening move against the wealthiest company in the history of Wall Street is the way to take control of the competition at the outset. Goldman responds with a weak but crafty pawn in the form of 31-year-old bond salesman Fabrice Tourre.

Notice the GOP tactics, both Democratic and Republican National committees and President Clinton with his Larry Summers, Robert Rubin and I were “wrong” about the derivatives market quote and you are discerning the finer points of the game. Stay tuned, the very interesting moves and counter moves by both sides of the board, from around the table, have just begun.

Hopefully this will not turn out to be a game of solitaire.

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The First Amendment Flip Flop

By Brian Brawdy | Published: April 19, 2010

Have you ever noticed how some politicians, political pundits and news reporters seem huge fans of your right to speak your mind, right up until you dare to disagree? Once you officially take issue with their position, your perspective is not longer protected. Your opinion counts as long as you don’t oppose them. It’s a uniquely legislative bent to the First Amendment and our Constitutional Protections. Kind of reminds me a bit of Senator John Kerry back in 2006. “I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it.” Some are fans of the First right up until they flip-flop.

It’s one of the most annoying double standards, a philosophical one-eighty of the most irritating kind. The latest version, sadly only the latest version, comes from Mr. Karl Rove. During an interview with “Fox and Friends” he labeled some Code Pink protesters at a recent “Courage or Consequences” book signing of his as “sad and pathetic people” and a “nut” that didn’t deserve “any more attention.” Now, let’s juxtapose a piece he wrote April 1 for the Wall Street Journal when he stated that the Tea Party Protesters are a “new force that’s bringing millions of here-to-fore unengaged Democrats, independents and Republicans into the political arena. If there’s something a ruling party doesn’t like, it’s a new political player converting spectators into participants.”

Let’s brake it down down…Code Pink….”Sad and pathetic.” Tea Party…”spectators and participants.” Hmmmm. Apparently, if you agree with Mr. Rove you are a movement. If you disagree, you are maligned. Your opinion counts, only if he can count on you to see it his way.

FOX News is great while it helps him sell his book and “sad” when they report the truth.

Perhaps someone should tell him if he is going to have the courage to publicize his book, he has to suffer the consequences of free speech, regardless.

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