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Sewer System Schedule: The Cart Before The Horse

The following was sent to Longton's council members on 28Sep25.

I received the following September 24th, in response to a query I made to Lamp Rynearson regarding a source for quantitative soil moisture guidelines to implement smoke testing of the City's sewer system.

Thank you for reaching out and for the detailed background on your community's soils and groundwater conditions. You're asking a great question—smoke testing is most reliable when groundwater is at its lowest and soils are as dry as possible. If the soil is saturated or the lines are under groundwater pressure, the smoke can't escape through defects as intended, which may lead to false negatives.

Unfortunately, there aren't published "quantitative soil moisture guidelines" for smoke testing. Industry best practice is to schedule testing during the driest time of year—typically July and August in Kansas—when hot weather, low rainfall, and plant transpiration combine to reduce soil moisture and lower the water table. Ideally, there should be at least 30 days of relatively dry weather prior to testing.

For your community, I'd recommend:
 - Avoiding winter months since groundwater tends to rise and vegetation isn't pulling moisture from the soil.
 - Targeting late summer when conditions are hottest and driest, even if that means delaying the test to ensure accuracy.
 - Discussing with your testing provider whether sections of line that remain in groundwater year-round are likely to produce reliable results, or if alternative inspection methods (like CCTV) may be better suited. (suited to the 'in groundwater' areas).

I hope this helps give you and your community some direction as you plan. While our team won't be directly involved in this project, we're glad to point you toward best practices so you can get meaningful results.

FYI, the Lamp Rynearson team has experience with smoke testing, manhole inspections, CCTV review and analysis, and construction administration for sewer rehab projects.

I hope the collective IQ of the Council realizes from this information that the Smoke Test, at this point, should be scheduled for the late summer of 2026. I doubt the Mayor has a clue, or cares at this point.

Until the Smoke Test can be reliably completed, there is no need for any additional pre-planning, design work, or sourcing funding at this time. The Smoke test is essential, augmented by CCTV footage (not replaced with it) to determine the scope of work needed. Once a Scope has been defined from, funding and initial planning should follow. To do otherwise is to put the cart before the horse, and waste taxpayers monies.

Will We Ever Know The Truth??

Is This the Truth About the Kirk Murder?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/former-assistant-secretary-of-hud-catherine-fitts-the-kirk-assassination-is-a-psyop/

A former Secretary for HUD thinks this video suggests the Truth. Fun, clever tune. Pause the video to understand the headlines.

Watch Government Jackboots Criminally Assault A Store Owner While Detaining An Immigrant Accused Of Criminal Activity

https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/u-citizen-files-claim-50-004049876.html

Is it any wonder people in these 50 States are so divided? No one is above the law. That includes Officers, Agents, and Enforcers of the Law.

Is It Rumor . . Or Do "They" Begin To Arrive?

Received this email late Friday; "�Some guy just moved into the old bank in Longton. He is from New York, just got out of jail, he is dressed in black, no transportation. He said if he didn't get that place he was going to kill himself. He came with nothing I think.
Could be a not good guy or really needed to get out of New York. Please be careful."

[Hey, ECF Moderator, where did the weird diamond/question mark come from?]

The sender of that is not a member of the town rumor mill. In fact, the rumor mill usually irritates the sender. So I take the email seriously, and think folks in town should be aware.

As you know, the old bank is at 502 Kansas, the brick carcass with a wooden addition, on the corner with 5th. Only the wooden addition has a roof, and there are no utilities. The property has been for sale, realtor.com says 'sale pending', but I heard the property has been sold.

How should Longton's Welcome Wagon respond? Could the person "in black" be the new owner, be homeless, be the newest thief in town, be in need of emotional/mental support, be an advance scout for a horde of city escapees to follow?

1) Will flowers, candles, welcome cards, and food gifts soften what the rumor mill suggests could be a hard heart?
2) Should Baptist Pastor, Methodist Minister and Christian Preacher invite the person "in black" to services, bible studies, and dinners; risking a welcoming invitation to prey on the local religious, as has happened before?
3) Should the Sheriff act dutifully to protect county residents, and clear the old bank?
4) Should a few residents head over to exercise Castle Law with automatic weapons at hand?

May as well think over the situation and responses now, regardless of "in black's" intentions . . . we can all expect more of the same as society further fractures.

Kirk's Death Is Not The Take-Home Story
The Divisive Blame-Game Is

The link; https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/09/doug-casey/whether-charlie-kirks-death-could-be-americas-franz-ferdinand-moment/

Here are two quick quotes from Doug Casey:
1) "It's been obvious to me for the last 10 years—maybe much more, I'll have to check past letters—that the US is heading towards a breakup. It's uncertain whether it will be peaceful or violent. But one thing is for sure: the Red and the Blue people increasingly hate each other. And people with very different philosophical and moral beliefs can't, and shouldn't, inhabit the same political entity, especially when a powerful government is bankrupt, corrupt, and untethered.

One takeaway is that you can forget calls for "unity." They're nonsensical and impossible. The other takeaway is that "democracy", now more than ever, is just a charade. I've always felt that modern democracy was just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie. But at this point, so-called democracy is about grabbing as much of the trillions of dollars of spoils that the US government dispenses every year as possible—and gaining control of the apparatus of the State to oppress the other guy. Forget about the "loyal opposition." These people hate each other.

2) It's impossible to have 330 million people under the same political umbrella. Especially when the government controls 40% of the economy and has regulations for everything, it wouldn't work even if the US were still homogeneous, as it was before the 1960s. But now it's made up of many radically different ethnic, racial, linguistic, and religious groups who have nothing in common. Worse, strapped taxpayers are forced to carry 100 million non-producers.

As I mentioned to a friend bound for college, Number 2 is all society needs to understand about economics and sociology. That is exactly the reason government schools will not teach the consequence of government interference/regulation.

[U.S. Code provides that murder of a foreigner by an American citizen on the high seas is a federal criminal offense. See 18 U.S.C. Section 1111, and 18 U.S.C. Section 7).]

Trump Should Be Charged!

How Is He Not Guilty?

Trump has no legal authority to kill drug-war suspects, including foreign citizens. Deadly force can only be used in self-defense against the use of deadly force or the threat of deadly force. In other words, if a U.S. vessel had approached that Venezuela boat and those 11 people who were killed had begun firing guns at the U.S. vessel, the U.S. vessel could have responded with deadly force.

U.S. Code provides that murder of a foreigner by an American citizen on the high seas is a federal criminal offense. See 18 U.S.C. Section 1111, and 18 U.S.C. Section 7).

The U.S. Constitution provides that the president shall be removed from office on impeachment and conviction of "high crimes." It goes without saying that murder is a "high crime."

In other words, Trump should be criminally prosecuted, then removed from office via impeachment, for the murder of 11 Venezuelan citizens on the high seas. Furthermore, military personnel who carried out Trump's orders also be prosecuted and convicted of murder.

[The sophistication of modern slavery lies in maintaining compliance through comfort rather than from suffering.]

WAKE UP, SLAVES

Recognize that freedom and slavery exist as extremes of a gradient. Between the plantation owner's whip and complete autonomy lie a series of arrangements; from serfdom, indentured servitude, debt bondage, to various forms of regulated participation in society. Consider where we actually fall within that spectrum when;
 - you cannot keep the majority of your labor,
 - you cannot opt out without facing state violence,
 - you cannot choose how your extracted labor is used,
 - you face increasing surveillance and restriction of movement, and
 - "they" use terms like 'social contract' and 'civic duty' prevent us from examining what's really happening.

How far from the slavery end of the spectrum are we really? The sophistication of modern slavery lies in maintaining compliance through comfort rather than from suffering. A golden cage is still a cage, and a comfortable slave is still a slave.

Need to understand more? You surrender 30-50% of your labor before you ever see it. If you refuse, men with guns will eventually arrive at your door. The extraction is comprehensive and inescapable. Every economic action becomes a revenue opportunity for the system that owns your labor.
 - you earn money, you pay income tax,
 - you own property, you pay property tax,
 - you spend money, you pay sales tax,
 - you save money, you lose to inflation tax,
 - you invest successfully, you pay capital gains tax,
 - you start a business, you pay for licenses,
 - you run a profitable business, you pay corporate and personal tax,
 - you give money away, you pay gift tax, and
 - you die with assets, your estate pays inheritance tax, and
 - you can't opt out of funding wars you oppose, surveillance systems that monitor you, or bureaucracies that regulate your choices. Your 'property' can be seized for unpaid taxes, even if you own it outright.

Historically, slaves at least knew they were enslaved. The violence was visible, the coercion obvious, the enemy identifiable. Today's slaves are convinced they're consumers. But here is the real masterpiece: you've been convinced this is freedom.

Traditional slaves were told they're property; modern slaves are told they're customers. Traditional slaves were controlled through fear; modern slaves through convenience. Traditional slaves were kept ignorant; modern slaves are overwhelmed with controlled information that shapes their conclusions.
The plantation owner never convinced his slaves that chains were jewelry. The Congolese warlord doesn't pretend the child-labor cobalt mine is a wellness center. But we've been convinced that surveillance is safety, that debt is prosperity, that algorithmic control is empowerment.
Traditional slavery was economically inefficient—you had to house, feed, and guard your property. Modern slavery is self-maintaining: the slaves pay for their own monitoring devices, compete for their positions, and attack anyone who suggests they're not free. We've been conditioned to love our cages so thoroughly that questioning them feels like madness.

But wait, here is what's in the wings, here is what comes tomorrow:
•   Identity Capture: Biometric databases make anonymous existence impossible.
•   Data Processing: Massive server farms process every biometric signature in real-time.
•   Interface Elimination: 'Contextually aware' devices remove conscious choice friction.
•   Cognitive Control: AI systems shape how you think about questions themselves.
•   Economic Dependency: Digital income tied to compliance monitoring.
•   Biological Integration: Neural interfaces turn your cells into network nodes.


See; Joshua Stylman @substack for more incisive thoughts.

[and keep profits circulating locally]

What Was That??  What Did You Say??

I Said Modern Farming Is Destroying Small Communities

Read this link:  https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/death-small-farm-death-rural-america

This is exactly what the hands-out-for-subsidy-folks cannot grasp. The wealth leaves our County with government programs that subsidize, set quotas, and over control the marketplace. This article explains it, and offers a solution. The City's sewer project will do the same, as I've mentioned.

What used to be 20 or 30 small farms—each with a household and family that supported the local restaurant, gas station, feed store, [the grocery store, the hardware store, the farmers' markets], and the veterinarian who served a few counties—is now replaced by a single sprawling operation with no animals, no neighbors, and no community.

Small farms matter because they produce food where it's eaten, keeping supply chains short and resilient. They're often the ones growing the vegetables at your farmers market, the eggs from down the road, the beef from a rancher you know by name. They support biodiversity, employ more people per acre, and keep profits circulating locally. Dismissing them as outdated isn't just wrong—it's dangerous to our food security.

Trump's "Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force"

The Trump administration is evaluating plans that would establish hundreds of National Guard troops tasked with rapidly deploying into American cities facing protests or other unrest, according to internal Pentagon documents. The plan calls for 600 troops to be on standby at all times so they can deploy in as little as one hour. They would be split into two groups of 300 and stationed at military bases in Alabama and Arizona, with purview of regions east and west of the Mississippi River, respectively.

The article goes on to discuss legal issues, cots, and implementation problems; https://archive.is/2025.08.12-132729/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/12/national-guard-civil-unrest/
 
The previous post mentioned that Martial Law was coming. Here is the next step. Just a guess, five years from now it will not be 600 on stand-by at all times, it will be 12,000. And a few units of them will always be occupying some City, whether the State Governor approves, or not. The clock is ticking.

A Quote From Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota

"My main concern is for veterans, not for the VA. I don't believe we have an obligation to sustain the bureaucracy."

The Article is here;  https://www.newsbreak.com/share/4161388119004-congress-looks-to-ease-veterans-use-of-health-care-outside-the-va?_f=app_share&pd=08CohF18&lang=en_US&send_time=1754581273&trans_data=%7B%22platform%22%3A0%2C%22cv%22%3A%2225.30.0.28%22%2C%22languages%22%3A%22en%22%7D&sep=ns_foryou_recall_exp_25q3-v1%2Cns_foryou_blend_exp_25q3-v8%2Cns_foryou_rank_exp_25q3-v6%2Cns_foryou_model_exp_25q3-v9&s=i3