This segment has a particular audio backdrop that I find most appropriate. Recorded in the Florida Everglades in July, the sound is the buzzing of millions of mosquitoes trying to gain entry into my tent as the sun sets. Taping a wireless microphone to the lens of  headlamp was all I needed. If you listen closely to the unedited audio, you can hear individual dive-bombing mosquitoes slamming into the light.

I am looking forward to hearing from you as to your pick for The Most Annoying Soundbite of the Day.

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Listen to the sneak preview…..Yikes!!!

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Oh, oh. Someone is shaking the cage!

The turf war is full on.

I often hear the term “Wild West” used by many in the Needia to describe and attack the Internet and its bloggers who dare to challenge them. I don’t know about you, but I dig the free-range aspects of the blogosphere. Our country was built on the rough and tumble of our past.

Lately, the Face Plates have been crying about the anonymity of some bloggers. Truth be told, I am not a fan of bloggers using fake names. I figure if you are going to have an opinion, whether caustic or optimistic, you should own up to it, make it yours. If you’re going to make a stand, square your shoulders and put your signature on it. What we pen, we should be proud of.

That said, in the battle between bloggers and broadcast, I’m backing the bloggers.

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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.”

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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According to a recent Gallup Poll, Americans view Immigration policy, poor healthcare, natural disaster response, Federal budget deficit, fuel costs, wars, “lack of money,” Afghanistan and even the war in Iraq as lesser problems than “dissatisfaction with government/Congress/politicians; poor leadership; corruption; abuse of power.” Only the economy and unemployment ranked higher than Uncle Sam as “important problems” confronting our country.

Hello. This would be laughable if it didn’t directly effect our lives.

This should rattle our politicians and elected officials more than the 3.6 magnitude earthquake that struck the DC area early this morning.

Reminder: Only 6 days left until the debut of The Brian Brawdy Show. Talk about feeling like an aftershock to the Capitol Hill gang.

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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Your home, as it pertains to the recent Supreme Court decision, does not include huge amounts of square footage according to Chicago officials. The City has decided that your front and back porches not to mention your garage, driveway and yard, are off limits to you while carrying a firearm. If you’re packing on your porch or while parking your car you can be prosecuted.

Here is my question. Since your property taxes are calculated in Cook County and the Windy City based on the total area of your home, your garage, porches, yards and driveways, can the taxpayers expect a refund?

Clearly, Chicago wants it both ways. They want to randomly and mercurially redefine your castle.

They prohibit you from carrying your legally registered firearm throughout your property because your home is contained within the main four walls yet they have no problem assessing property taxes while including the total surface area of your home.

Nice.

Would seem to me that if you pay taxes on a particular piece of property, it is that definition and measurement that should remain constant in deciding the term “home.”

Mayor Daley. How do you define a home? Is there one accounting for taxes yet another calculation for those laws that you disagree with? Better yet Mr. Mayor, how do you define the term double standard?

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Check your front yard for progressively invading dandelions, your side lots for advancing weeds or highway shoulders for wild thickets and you know the politics of today. Laws, like weeds gobble up any free space they find. Soon, the flower of freedom is entwined in suffocating roots and eventually chocked out.

Thomas Jefferson believed  ”The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”

Let’s draw a line. NO more yielding, no more unchecked growth of weeds and dandelions at the local, state and federal levels. Essentially, we need increasing numbers of “weed-wackers” to stand up and help to beat back the advancing growth, spread and infestation of government.

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Imagine, for a moment, burying a person in the dirt up to their collarbones. Then, with an utterly defenseless human neck and face exposed, you pick up a baseball-sized rock or bigger and hurl it with enough force to begin inflicting the slow process of death. The skull, the jaw, the cheeks, they eyes, the nose and teeth all targets for a group of evil sadists. Unimaginable pain must certainly match the horrific inhumanity of a stoning.

Your eyes swell shut, your teeth battered and bleeding as your jaw and nose fracture, your skull cracks open yet the pain only builds. Never before has death been so recruited and welcomed.

Think about it.

What person, what government, what religion could stomach and sanction such brutal savagery? What absolute dearth of a being could do such a thing?  That type of vicious, depraved cruelty takes a unique mammal to perpetrate, one certainly devoid of any human trait of compassion or empathy.

As we watch the horror of the Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani sentencing unfold, remember that any country engaging in such cruel and wicked “justice” would not think twice about inflicting sever pain, suffering and violent death on “the others” they contrive to be guilty. The next time you hear of UN actions, the United Nations Security Council and their “sanctions with teeth” against the Iran’s nuclear ambitions, please remember this.

Once you cross the hell-drawn line of satanically killing with a handful of rocks, hurling a rocket is a layup.

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Senator Robert C. Byrd passed away last week at the age of 92 after serving 51 years in the United States Senate, the longest ever in our history. The good news? 51 years is longer than I’ve been alive. The bad news? That’s longer than a ton of us have been alive.

Now, before the hate mail starts, I spent a huge part of my childhood in West Virginia, believe in the right of a state electorate to elect the politician of their choice and for the most part don’t favor the government exercising a heavy hand. That said, if EVER there was a case that helped to bolster the call for term limits, this would be that case.

Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.” For me, I take a slightly tangential slant. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with fresh politicians. After two terms we’ve had enough of their manure.”

The sooner we begin to honestly comes to grips with the fact that any career in the Senate lasting more than two terms serves only the politician, not his/her people, the better off we will all be.

As some in the mainstream Needia have lamented that “we may never again” see a Senator with that type of “staying power” let’s hope they are correct. May Senator Byrd, a fellow mountaineer rest in peace and may we never again elect a “9 term Senator” to Congress.

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