How much do you trust that NASA will let us know of an imminent threat to Earth that might include asteroid impact, massive solar flare, coronal mass ejection – or perhaps something worse?

Do these law enforcement officers realize their role in the death of America?

The impact on commodity and stock markets was almost instantaneous, with oil trading down $4 today and stocks swinging back and forth at least a hundred points on the Dow.

The people in charge of our monetary, economic and fiscal policies have no clue what to do. They have fired all of the bullets they had and nothing is working. Fundamentally, we’re worse off now than we were four years ago.

Let’s face it, flying isn’t exactly the most comfortable experience one can engage in. Usually, and this is stereotypical of us, those pajama pants are being modeled by female college co-eds. Not once has this ever been an issue. Up until now, that is.

We urge our readers not to panic, but as always, remain vigilant. The world can change from one day to the next.

Some of the key elements we will witness in a depressionary-style economic collapse that happens over several years as opposed to an overnight collapse. Civilizations past have all experienced their own form of collapse, most of them falling off the planet over many years and decades. We view this type of breakdown as one of the most likely – a system that falls apart slowly, with progressing violence and volatility.

If we’re going to be investigating Christian militants and others who are responsible for undermining the rule of law and posing a threat to this country, the agencies responsible should do this in concert with investigations that include analyzing upper echelons of our government, Congress, corruption in law enforcement (on all levels) and financial conglomerates.

Perhaps Tom Ball believed that his death would lead to a similar explosion of protests as those that occured in Tunisia…

Joe will not have a clue as to what happened, why it happened, who caused it or who is to blame. At that point we will have riots in the streets, clueless idiots with no plan. These folks will be mad at everyone who has something, anything… So prepare yourself.

Passage of this legislation can set a precedent that leads to further nullification of unjust, unconstitutional and flat-out illegal federal laws.

At this time, we remain pessimistic about the chances of a true view right leaning, or even centrist, candidate winning the White House in 2012. As frustrating, scary, damaging and pessimistic as that may sound, it is what it is.