New talent at Al's Tokio Store Musicians' Reunion

Outlaw country looking good, feeling better

Tokio – In the bottoms of the Aquilla Creek, not far from the old ford smack dab on the way to Montana, they come and go, camp awhile and move up and down, in and out.

There is an old Navy hootch there named Al's Tokio Store, a place that has sold cold beer since some indeterminate time in the 19th Century, at the corner of Old Railroad Road and Tokio Loop, otherwise known as the Jim Lewis Expressway.

You might say it's a part of national security, inextricably linked with the affairs of state - all hail!

Loretta and a running buddy of hers made the scene, selling brewski, posing for pictures, sitting on – ah – motorcycles and looking pretty. Oh, well, the grizzled veterans, outlaws and other assorted folks in black t-shirts are easily entertained; it's a well-known fact to one and all, but there is something special about – oh, well, never mind.

You might say painted ladies are the shine on the apple, the sizzle on the steak - all part of the show. Here's to the girls who keep it rolling, y'all.

As some young Polish lads once sang, “Her eyes, they shine like the diamonds...and her hair hung over her shoulder, tied up with a black velvet band,” etc.

The tunes were cooking, the brew was flowing, and the burgers were sizzling. Casey Kelley on acoustic - Dave Giddens on electric - ripping it up and laying it down and dirty. Yes. Exactly.

Come on down, y'all. Every other Sunday, 3 or 4 p.m. - The Legendary

Under the Double Eagle - At ease!

"Things like this don't happen once if they didn't happen before."

Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-CA)

Tax Day shout out to Tea Party plans – gold, silver coin

'Control the money – Control everything'


Tea Party strategy got recognition from the radical blog “Silver Underground,” which credits the don't-tread-on-me movement with a sea change in the economics of states rights.

Utah authorized minting of gold and silver coins to be used as currency in that state a year ago. The change is starting to have some real effect.

The strategy is simple enough. Once fiat bank-issued currency becomes the only form of money, the wealth of the nation may be taxed out from under its citizens – confiscated, as it were - through a steady, controlled rate of inflation, one that is produced through collusion between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve.

So saith Alan Greenspan, ca. 1967, that seminal year in the Age of Aquarius, as previously noted in these columns:

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value… The financial policy of the welfare state requires there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. - Alan Greenspan, “Gold and Economic Freedom,” 1967

So far, the chief rub seems to be getting merchants to accept the alternative currency in the somewhat snow-blind State of Utah. It seems that since the coins are worth much more than their face value, current fluctuations in the per-ounce price of the precious metals becomes the true currency. It all becomes very complicated from there.

Shades of the War of Northern Aggression prevail. Do you trade in Greenbacks, or do you prefer Confed?

Let us return to those thrilling days of yesteryear when the United States of America truly became an equal opportunity nation with liberty to starve to death crying for a loaf of bread while one stood with a Virginia ham under one arm and a large-bore musket on the other shoulder.

Let a smile be your umbrella on a rainy, cloudy day...

All this and a redhead doing the Lindy Hop

Video selection gleaned from Mr. Terry Jennings
And the floggings will continue until morale improves - The Legendary

$30K budget for electronic anklets cut, pay CEC $45 a day

Electronic monitoring = $15 per day

Waco - McLennan County Commissioners cut the annual budget for electronic monitoring of offenders released on bail to $0 for the fiscal year after previously charging taxpayers $30,000 per year to fund a program that was never implemented. At the rate of $15 per day, those who are released awaiting trial often are allowed to pay the cost themselves.

Presently, however, CEC, Inc., is paid $45.50 per day to house overflow prisoners from the Highway 6 county lockup in the Jack Harwell Detention Center while the downtown jail across the alley from the Courthouse stands empty awaiting a new roof, upgrades and remodeling that will bring it into compliance with state jail standards, and a thorough cleaning to alleviate filthy and dilapidated conditions.

The Court has recently diverted $385,000 in contingency funding to pay the New Jersey-based corporation, which operates the jail financed and built with revenue bonds underwritten by McLennan County taxpayers.

Bass, fiddle and guitar - we here - in the red dirt country

The delberate dumbing down of America