All the arguments have been made. I am under no illusions about whether America will be made great again. Now that so many people are so aware, simply hanging on a little longer at this point would help. I am under no illusions that the election may be stolen, I want to make sure they have to steal it. I am under no illusions that the electoral college may be rigged, I want to make sure they have to rig it. I don’t want them to just have it handed to them. None of us know what a Trump administration will be, or will do, but we’ve already seen a Clinton presidency. We already know the rot and corruption and indescribable evil up front, instead of it being hidden in Little Rock. Satanic isn’t even the right word, it isn’t strong enough. When the next incarnation of the undead Reno roasts more children alive in their mothers’ arms, that evil will not have had my help doing so by giving it a pass. At least this time I won’t have Marine captain’s bars on my collar, making me vomit when I see them in the mirror. Today, 3 for T. Fire the FPF.
New Blog, LeechCity.online
Those of you who have been following our ongoing saga with the city of Manassas, Georgia, know that we formed a council of elders with expertise in a variety of fields, and asked for their advice about how to best accomplish our objectives. An important front in this campaign is the local public affairs effort. To this end, we’ve launched a new blog, LeechCity.online (NOT .com). We now have our welcome post up over there.
The goal of Leech City is to document the campaign from a local perspective, and for local consumption. We’ll add color here at StarvingTheMonkeys so that you can see the strategy and planning behind what ultimately is presented on that site, enabling you to use these same techniques in your localities. Although we’ll have to keep some issues crypto for now as these things work their way through courts or law enforcement agencies, we’ll give as much of a big-blue arrow discussion over here as we can, when we can.
Yankee? Hardly.
Knuckledraggin posted an article questioning the practice of eating fried chicken with utensils, to which I replied, admitting to this dining habit. The subsequent good-natured Knuckledraggin response, and selected commentary, incorrectly identified your author as a Yankee. The following is typical of the sort of well-groomed, finely detailed, factually accurate, and calmly-delivered lambast that one might expect from a traditional southern gentleman, having waited patiently while his detractors wound themselves into an ignorant passion. The personal affront is in jest, the cultural references are sincere.
I was born in Laurel, and raised in Ellisville, Mississippi. Yes, that Ellisville. Audrey, my child bride of more than thirty years, measured in Providential time, was born in Covington County, but grew up in Ovett, and we went to the same Ellisville Elementary and South Jones High School; she was a year behind me. And yes, it is that Jones County.
Ground Solar, Part III, The Charger
Old School Tech has just published a new article in the ground solar series, this time on the selection and use of a charger. As with the previous ground solar article, this one is all technical; not much to add from a political or self-sufficiency point of view.
Manassas City Attorney Leaving Post
As regular readers will know, I have been in an ongoing legal battle with the City of Manassas, Georgia, for a while regarding their seat-of-the-pants approach to government and spending, as observed by former councilwoman Audrey. New readers can catch up on things here and here, including a ridiculous criminal allegation by Manassas Mayor Rogers against me after I requested documents on a fishy sidewalk project contract renegotiation.
After that allegation, my attorney presented the city with an ante-litem for defamation, an official notice to which the city never responded. At a recent city council meeting, the council announced that the city attorney, B. Jay Swindell (yes, that is his actual name, and how it is presented, Google it), will no longer be serving the city in that capacity. Who in the mix made the actual decision is still unclear. You may recall that he and the sidewalk contractor share the same last name, which I am assured is purely coincidental. Yesterday morning, I discovered that the new prospect for the Manassas city attorney is a juvenile law specialist. I think this choice couldn’t be more appropriate, since one member of the council of elders I have consulted said that the city was doing a pretty good job of running a tree house.
Hey, I Eat Fried Chicken With a Fork and a Knife
Knuckledraggin posted this article, about some dolt who sued a restaurant for not having forks and knives. But then Wirecutter asked the question:
Besides, who eats fried chicken with a knife and fork anyways?
Hey, I do. Is that strange? Of course it is. That is one little bit of bon vivant that I enjoy. I don’t really know why. When I eat out I slice all kinds of things with a knife and pick it up with a fork. It is almost a game to see how well I can clean a chicken bone that way. Getting my hands on food when in public bothers me. Maybe it is because of the public. When at home, where it is cleaner, I pick up food with my hands all the time, especially fresh, homemade chocolate chip cookies. But only with my left hand, which would bother Muslims I’m sure. Maybe that is why none of them are ever around. The right hand is for the remote, of course. It is pristine.
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Ground Solar, Part II, The Combiner
Old School Tech has a new article on solar, this time a very detailed article about combiners and their essential role in an off-grid system. This one is pretty much all technical; not much to add from a political or self-sufficiency point of view.
Inform and Inspire, Tips for a Successful Guest Post
Since launching the blog format, I’ve been soliciting for guest posts for this and our other sites, and have received several proposals. You’ll be seeing some of these soon, as well as some fantastic comments from readers that are going to turn into posts of their own. Other ideas are from some brilliant and talented people who are understandably upset about how things have turned out, and this is reflected in their writing. Many of the latter will not be published, and here is why: the simple secret to a successful guest post is to inform and inspire.
We simply aren’t going to promote an underdog mentality here. Underdogs can shake things up, no doubt, but at some point the underdog has to turn into an uber dog, and that is a difficult transition to make. Other websites get a lot of mileage out of doom and gloom, but we’re not going to go there, either. Sure, we’re going to tell you the reality of things, and we’re not going to paper over any suck, but that isn’t going to be the lead point of any article. We’re going to inform the reader about something they can do, or that has been done, and then inspire them to take positive action themselves, even if only by learning from our mistakes. We are going to embrace the suck, overcome it, and turn its energy to work for us.
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Intelligence Is Operations
WRSA just posted a link to a great article about special ops planning. After initial consultation with relevant experts, we’ve borrowed heavily from this process for our own intelligence gathering and administrative warfare process in our local battle over an out-of-control city government. An important part of the linked article is the claim that often, intelligence is operations.
Our intelligence gathering comes in two major forms: elicitation and document analysis. Each of these feeds the other in a continuous cycle, adapted from the F3EAD process described in the article linked by WRSA. There are other components including various forms of traffic analysis, but these two are the primary means. At this point, we have collected so much raw information that we have had to prioritize future targeting, and this means prioritizing operations to make sure that we exploit the highest-value targets.
Field Phone Morse Decoder
Old School Tech has just posted an article for making a Morse decoder using a Raspberry Pi. The accompanying video was shot weeks ago, we just haven’t had a chance to get it put together until now. This is the first step in a series of articles that is going to expand on this foundation to start doing interesting things with the field phone key feature. The video is also linked below:
As usual, all the technical details are over at OST. Please post your technical comments over there, and your self-sufficiency thoughts over here at STM.