Odds ‘n Sods:

“A. Marine” suggested this educational video on making thermite. (The usual chemistry experiment and welding safety disclaimers apply. Beware that the use of fine brille materials or packing them in a confined space could resulting in an explosion.) See my novel “Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse” for greater detail as well as some, potential welding project applicability.

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From reader DD: Ways to lower water usage.

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Tamara (of the invariably witty View From the Porch blog), linked to a news story from “Out in the west Texas town of El Paso”: Soldier accused of being hit man for cartel. (But this sounds a lot more like something from No Country for Old Men than it does the old Marty Robbins song.)

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Clearly, our nation is still thoroughly and unrepentantly sinful, from the East Coast to the West Coast.

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I noticed that there are now four episodes of the post-TEOTWAWKI reality television show The Colony (from The Discovery Channel) now available for free download. The latest two episodes finally exposed the “colonists” pitiful lack of security. This dose of reality made their erstwhile priority of building a solar-heated shower look absurd.