More Container Gardening

Here are a few more small space gardening books that are currently being offered free on Amazon.  Be sure to check your cart, if you click on these after the free period and get charged for them, it's your responsibility!


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Container Gardening and Pest Control

I plan on doing some container gardening this year, so you can bet I was happy to find these free ebooks on Amazon. Please note that these are free as of now, if you decide to get them check your cart to make sure the free period hasn't ended. If you get charged for them, it's your responsibility.

If you don't have one you'll need the free Kindle Reading App.

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Container Gardens

How To Make Moonshine

Ever since the show "Moonshiners" started on The Discovery Channel, it seems moonshine is now a fad. So naturally someone had to write a book about it. The following ebook is currently available free from the Amazon Kindle Store. If you don't have one you'll need the free Kindle Reading App.

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Once again, this ebook is free at the time of this posting but check your cart before you buy. If the free offer has expired and you get charged it's not my responsibility! 

Something I'm Finding Ironic

Unless you were hiding under a rock, you are probably aware of the situation a few months back involving the Bureau of Land Management and The Bundy Ranch in Nevada.  

Without getting into all that, one of the things revealed was a practice of the federal government to put more and more areas off limits to use by us, the taxpaying people who are paying for the upkeep of this land.  In some cases these fences (and gates) are physical, in others they are virtual, just a notice that certain areas are off limits.

Now to switch to TV.  Travel Nevada is running an ad campaign showing folks doing all kinds of fun stuff while singing "Don't Fence Me In".

Ironic.

It just might be time to have a little fun with the NSA

With all the news about the NSA spying on us (in just about every way imaginable) it might be time to have a little fun with it.

Supposedly one of the things being used are supercomputers to break encryption.  Suppose folks started encrypting messages with portions of The Constitution and The Bill of Rights, encrypting them, and sending them to friends?  Even mundane things like "How's the weather there today?" Can you imagine the number of pissed off wanna be spooks when they decrypt and read a message like that?

If you really wanted to have some fun, type a bunch of gibberish and then encrypt it so it looks like an encrypted message within an encrypted message,  That would drive them nuts.

 I think I may have to start doing some of this  :-)

What A Difference A Day Makes

Yesterday I posted my opinion that we would never have checkpoints where we would be told "Your Papers, Please" because checkpoints aren't needed as our cars and cellphones tattle on us about where we've been.

Today's revelations about NSA's PRISM Program makes it even worse.  Intercepting our emails, voice, texts ... hell, the NSA knows not only where we've been but where we're going.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/prism-tech-giants-shock-nsa-data-mining

It's even worse than I thought.

Why American's Will Never Hear "Your papers, Please" here in the U.S.

In this article from The Guardian (UK) Newspaper, it is reported that the NSA is collecting ALL data on phone calls.  Not conversations, but the metadata (read the article).   Couple that with NSA's new Data Center and ability to capture "the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches" (quote from this article ). So basically ALL of your electronic communications are going to be captured and stored. Let's not even mention Cops using your cell phone GPS data to track where you've been.

What about your travels?  Our country is more and more being covered with traffic cameras, red light cameras, even cameras coupled with radar to catch speeders. Enter the Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) and it's ability to capture images of passing license plates, and police agencies who store the data indefinitely. Story here.

Most new cars now come standard with satellite GPS.  Do you think it's only one way? Cars are Bluetooth enabled, Satellite Equipped (OnStar & the like), and over 90% have "black boxes".

While the unconstitutional (in my opinion) DUI checkpoints are an established fact of life, unlike Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, we don't have to worry about checkpoints where we show ID and tell where we've been and where we're going. 

Our cars and phones are telling on us.