Day: July 13, 2012

Field Dentistry Basics, by Tom Loomis DDS

The two procedures that make up Field Dentistry are fillings and extractions. Field Dentistry is defined as providing your own dental care when there is no other way; probably due to collapse of our health care system along with the rest of our fragile economy and civilization due to the disastrous economic policies of our “leaders”, a terrorist attack, or some other reason. Fillings can be easy or complicated depending on the size of the cavity and the surfaces of the tooth that are involved.  Starting with the simplest- a one surface cavity in the chewing surface of the tooth, …


Preparing for Emergencies with a Special-Needs Child, by F.J.

Prepping for emergency situations is always a difficult task, especially when considering various limitations that you and your family may have (including financial restraints, locale features and challenges, health of your household members, your network of family and friends-or a lack of a network, etc.)  As for my wife and I, we have the added burden of preparing with a loveable, huggable special-needs child in mind.  As the numbers of children with physical, mental, and/or neurological difficulties continue to rise in this country, a growing number of preppers will need to consider the issue of sustaining a special-needs child through …


Letter Re: Offline Satellite Maps

Mr. Rawles, While trying to automate my Google Earth into an offline cache, I found this blog.   As it turns out, this man has described ways to load several types of maps offline, including topo maps and Google Earth.   To download Google Earth offline, you will need software from a companion site (free to use, $20 to donation) called Dr. Regener   I am now in the process of creating high resolution offline Google Earth caches that can be placed onto an external thumb drive and viewed as needed without access to the Internet. – Dan in Florida


Letter Re: Residential OPSEC With Utility Workers

Hi Mr Rawles, Another tactic used by house burglars is to break in to your car.  They will steal your garage door opener and your registration.  They clip them together for identification.  Then a few days later when your car is gone they drive up, open your garage door, enter, close the door and break in to your home.  Unseen, they can load up and leave.  We found this out when our car was broken into. They dumped the glove box for the paper work, and didn’t take the radio.  Luckily they didn’t find the garage door opener.  When we …


Letter Re: Extending Battery Life

Hi Jim, Just finished reading the post on extending battery life.  The writer hit it on the head when he talked about pulse charging batteries. As a matter of fact there is a company out of Hayden, Idaho (in the American Redoubt) which makes microprocessor-controlled desulphating battery chargers.  John Bedini has been designing these chargers for many years, and has now made them commercially available.  His company is called Energenx. I have three of his heavy duty chargers for use on Trojan batteries. The chargers have a charge cycle and a desulphate cycle where they charge and discharge several times …


Economics and Investing:

Want Precious Metals? Forget Mines, Go to Landfills. (A hat tip to Diana V. for the link.) C.D.V. sent this: As More Cities Go Broke, Is Muni Crisis Finally Here? G.G. sent this: Arizona Police Bust The Biggest Counterfeit Coupon Ring Ever Also from G.G., a piece about Ka-Bar: Inside The Company That’s Made Knives For The Marines Since World War II Items from The Economatrix: Mish’s Global Economic Trend:  Global Collapse in Auto Sales Coming Up Why The LIBOR Scandal Matters:  Destruction of Confidence to the Nth Degree Was Gold Manipulated Like LIBOR Rates?


Odds ‘n Sods:

The Cato Institute investigates: Where Are The Libertarians? Predictably, the American Redoubt States ranked well. (Thanks to Joe W. for the link.)    o o o Cougars Are Making a Comeback in America    o o o We recently got our first set of Jarbox Totes from Pantry Parutus. What a clever invention! These are sturdy and stackable, and even American-made. I’m sure that we’ll be getting a lot of use out them. The only problem is that now I can see that I need to order three or four more sets…    o o o I hope that you …