OST has posted a new article introducing the book Caveman Chemistry, by Dr. Kevin Dunn. “Starving the Monkeys” readers will recognize this book from our recommended reading list; we use it all the time for our homeschool chemistry lab manual to supplement text books. If you only have room on your self-sufficiency shelf for one chemistry book, this one is it. Worst-case, you will be able to get future generations up to a greater-than-high-school level of chemistry knowledge quickly, and at the same time be able to create useful materials for a higher quality of life.
Faithless Elector Update, 22 Nov 2016
The oblate liberty spheroid is abuzz with talk about Trump electors receiving threats of violence unless they change their support when the Electoral College selects the next President in December. As usual, while infuriating, these threats are likely to be misdirection to conceal the actual manipulations behind the scenes. The actual manipulations are likely to be a combination of bribes and extortion of selected electors to inject a “reasonable, healing” third party into the mix, allowing a compromised (in the corrupted, rather than the diplomatic sense) House to deep-select a pasty cuckservative. I doubt that Hillary is the intended beneficiary of an electoral steal.
Leech City Corruption Primer
In a previous Leech City post, described here for the STM reader, we motivate the local dissident to see official corruption as favoring and harboring organized crime. In this new Leech City post, Corruption Has Many Faces, we extend the definition of corruption as a laundry list of misconduct by officials.
The objective of this new Leech City post is to help local dissidents see misconduct in an organized way, helping them to better root out corruption. Intelligence professionals will recognize the older MICE format, applied to official misbehavior. A future article will apply the newer, interactive RASCLS format, both for how officials go bad and how to detect and uncover their misbehavior. We’ll also use this format to assist local dissidents in recruiting others to their cause.
For those unfamiliar with the MICE and RASCLS formats, and the important descriptive and behavioral differences between them, see this OpenCdA article on the topic.
Leech City Intelligence Motivator
Leech City, our site to monitor and expose local public corruption, has a new post about the symbiotic behavior of criminal gangs and corrupt government officials. For those following along with the techniques for battling local corruption, that post helps motivate local dissidents toward the collection of raw information which can be processed into actionable intelligence. It is written without a lot of buzzwords, and puts a face on tolerance-of-corruption = crime-near-you. Future posts will drill into some of the suspicious and sometimes seemingly innocuous motivations and behavior which can indicate hidden corruption and support of criminal activity. In particular, the MICE and RASCLS frameworks will be introduced in layman’s terms. This is only the beginning to what is planned for this operation. We’ll also show how the corrupt elements respond and how they attempt to attack or weaken this effort. As usual, you will get to watch this evolution so that you can apply the techniques in your areas.
Faithless Elector Update, 15 Nov 2016
From TBlake (as a comment on the Final Veil Is Falling post) who has been watching the faithless elector situation unfold; two separate mainstream sources:
Leech City Update, 15 Nov 2016
We put up a new post over at LeechCity.online, this time it is about some of the criminal history in our area and why we have fortified the place. That article lays the groundwork for future articles explaining the difference between criminals and corrupt politicians (spoiler: corrupt politicians are worse). For those of you just joining our program already in progress, LeechCity.online is our public affairs organ in our campaign to reign in out of control local governments, and is a counterbalance to some of the local news outlets. Whitewashing, controlled opposition and disinformation isn’t just for national media, check your local rag stand.
Off-Grid Lead Acid Battery Principles
Old School Tech has just posted an article about off-grid lead acid battery principles. While lead-acid batteries are not the optimum choice for long-term use, they are relatively inexpensive for a two- or three-year solution as long as they are well-maintained and properly used.
Another advantage of lead-acid batteries is that, in certain circumstances, there may be lots of them lying around (albeit starting batteries rather than the preferred deep cycle variety). However, thanks to modern keyless entry and other high-tech gizmos that constantly burn power when the ignition is off, most of them will be rendered worthless in a few months, or weeks in some cases, if not harvested early.
The Final Veil Is Falling
Faithless electors. This theoretical flaw feature of the Constitution, which once was the province of fringe conspiracy theorists, now has a face. What was barely thinkable a week ago, is now a rising tide of a leftist social media campaign in the real world, and mainstream media trial balloons. Hint: once these things hit the trial balloon stage, they never just go away.
I am going to skip citing all the references to this discussion, anyone can look these things up for yourselves and confirm the details. It is big blue arrow time. Go off and read Article II of the Constitution and the 12th Amendment and pay attention to the electoral process. Next, do a little bit of research on faithless electors and the #NotMyPresident social media campaign. Commenter Tblake on WRSA put together the best synopsis I have seen on this topic. If you research nothing else, read that comment in full.
Homeschool CLEP: 8 College Biology Credit Hours at Age 14
Last month, I was able to brag that our fourteen-year-old homeschooled daughter earned college calculus credit through the CLEP test. Yesterday, she passed the Biology CLEP with a score of 58/80, which is good for up to eight college credit hours at many universities. This win is made even nicer by the fact that some of those credit hours include lab segments, and as you know, labs can represent an inordinate amount of time, effort and schedule juggling.
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Breathing Room
Breathing room. God love Trump’s red-hats, I thank them, and I am thankful for them and what they accomplished. While I am cautiously optimistic about the outcome (don’t get me started about the last time I gave myself the luxury of savoring apple-flavored, star-spangled unicorn pie), I’m not dropping my pack. There is still much to be done completing The Work; its necessity is unabated. Here’s just a few reasons why, even if Trump has every intention of following-through on his campaign rhetoric: