Month: April 2016

Odds ‘n Sods:

Serious Smoking Guns on Hitlery, written by a liberal: Do I Really Need to Worry About Hillary’s Emails? Yes. She Should Be Indicted. (Full Form) o o o Spooked Neighbor Shoots Drone Out of the Sky As It Performed Legal Surveillance for Construction Company – Sent in by W.G. o o o Since a drivers license is not required to ride a bicycle, I’m curious how these “speeding tickets” are issued. Papers please! Marin County Cops Using Radar Guns to Ticket speeding BICYCLISTS (Subscription required to read the full story.) – Sent in by T.P. o o o Other Than …




Pat Cascio’s Product Review: UV Paqlite Mule Light

As a rule, I very seldom test prototype products, for a couple of good reasons. One is that the finished product is quite often quite a bit different than the prototype. Secondly, at times, the product never even comes on the market. Over the years, I’ve seen more than one firearm prototype covered in a magazine article, and the gun never came out. I covered one such handgun from Taurus some years ago, when I was the editor/publisher of a rag called Police Hot Sheet. My readers weren’t very happy to read my article on the gun that never came …


The Statists’ Dream List: Systematically Destroying Our Freedom of Speech

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Although much of the focus in Constitutionalist circles is rightfully on combating threats to the Second Amendment, there is an equally important issue: Our First Amendment freedoms of speech, press, religion, to peaceably assemble, and assuring our right to petition for redress of grievances. These rights are in peril.  Gradually, the United States is devolving into a quasi-Police State. One goal of the statists/collectivists is to marginalize and muzzle independent journalists. In this essay, I will outline some of the methods that could provide multiple gains for the statists: to control the press, to steer mass media content in a …


Recipe of the Week: Oatmeal Coconut Pie, by J.C.

My neighbor made me the most amazing oatmeal coconut pie. This is the Amish recipe for it. Ingredients: 1 1/2 cup milk 3 eggs, lightly beaten 3 Tbsp margarine, melted 2/3 cup rolled oats 1 1/3 cup dark brown sugar 2/3 cup flaked coconut 1 pie shell, unbaked (9 or 10 inch) Directions: Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Combine ingredients (except pie shell). Mix with a wire whisk. Pour into pie shell and sprinkle with additional coconut. Bake for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for an additional 30 minutes or until a knife inserted in …


Letter Re: Learning Morse Code

Hugh, You may find a quick blurb about the following site gets quite a good reader reaction. As a Ham of just under five years, the best site and aid I’ve found to learn Morse code is at lcwo.net. They focus on the Koch method and have several types of training courses. In just a few weeks of daily training, you’ll find that your comprehension will pick up quickly enough to start picking up operators on the air. – A Ham in Colorado


Economics and Investing:

Brace For Higher Gold & Silver Prices As The Markets Crack o o o Social Security Benefit Cut Looming for Seniors – Sent in by RBS. o o o Items from Professor Preponomics: US News 1 Out of 3 American Households Can No Longer Afford Rent, Food, and Transportation (My Budget 360) Excerpt: “People are struggling to get by and while the Fed is obsessed with interest rates, most families are seeing the impact of crony capitalism devastating their wallets.” 1 in 4 Americans 25-54 Not Working (The Weekly Standard) Excerpt: They either became so discouraged that they left the …


Odds ‘n Sods:

AR owners might find this video of a binary trigger test of interest: FosTech Echo Trigger First Look. o o o Police want to use residential, business surveillance cameras – Sounds like an innocent request, but it’s not. First, they politely asked, but you decline. Second, they threaten you with obstruction and start a harassment campaign. Third, they make it law. Fourth, they make it law that they have full remote access. Fifth, I remove my cams. – DMS o o o SurvivalBlog reader D.B. sent in this link and just made my day: Video: Obama FURIOUS After Judge Jeanine …




Garden Planning Tips – Part 2, by Sarah Latimer

Companion Planting Our family grows using organic techniques, for health reasons and because we practice now what we want to know how to do in the event resources become unavailable long term. Some of the things I use to fertilize, like Sea Magic fertilizer, or for pest management, like TheraNeem Neem Oil, or severe pest control, like NOLO Grasshopper & Cricket Control, are purchased rather than produced locally, like the dairy cow manure and compost we use to amend the soil. However, I try to keep the number of the purchased items we regularly use in our garden to a …


Letter Re: Situational Awareness and Profiling

JWR & Group, I have more of a question than a comment. I believe myself to be very situationally aware. I make conscience efforts to practice this necessary skill by watching people and thinking through what I see. I consider situational awareness to be both in your immediate environment and the extending. If a new neighbor moves in down the street that is part of my awareness. If my 90 year old neighbor doesn’t take out her trash I notice. These are the subtle changes to my environment that I track. When I am at the mall and I notice …


Economics and Investing:

Cutting Through Bls Bull – Sent in by B.B. o o o Avoid putting your money in these banks o o o Items from Professor Preponomics: US News 4 Outrageous Examples of Government Waste (Government Waste Fraud and Abuse) Among them, million dollar training retreats. Excerpt: “International Relief and Development collected billions of dollars from the government to help rebuild impoverished and war-torn countries around the world. At the same time, the company also billed over a million dollars to the government for retreats and parties at lavish resorts.” Judicial Watch: Obama Family 2015 Honolulu Christmas Vacation Cost Taxpayers $3,590,313 …


Odds ‘n Sods:

Seattle police raid home of privacy activists who maintain Tor anonymity network node – Either a dangerous slippery slope or Seattle Police are slow on the uptake that Tor is random and anonymous. – RBS. o o o CIA leaves explosives on school bus after training exercise – I really find it hard to believe. They don’t have a bus for training and then forget the stuff in a bus used for actual students. – DSV o o o Bloomberg Reports: US Commandos Trained to Stop Terrorists with “Dirty Bombs”. Submitted by T.A. o o o A GRIM REPORT and …