A Watched Elephant Never Flies

Shit got hacked. 
Info got taken.


Also, here's another completely disheartening flaw, in your SIM card, by which hackers can hijack your phone with a simple text. There's a great bit in the article about a private company that works with governments using this for 2 years for surveillance.  soooo.... tired...



Lions can see in the dark. Know what else can see in the dark?
Humans. With infrared goggles.
And pussycats.
Know what this means?
It means that dogs with infrared goggles are lions.



RIP Ginger Baker (80) - Cream, Blind Faith, etc



Dear lefty

• What was my biggest mistake?
• Performing oral in back alleys for $10. 
• (the going rate is $20)

Today I identify as: the F22 Osprey aircraft - for every hour in the air, there's 16 hours of maintenance.

• BREAKING: Chimpanzee on the loose in Santa Fe, Texas, harassing residents and reportedly attempting to steal cats
• Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Please tell me what to think.

NPR (yuck) Fresh Air (yay) had an interview with the author of a book about Sidney Gottlieb. You can find a transcript online. Sidney worked for the CIA, who wanted to start looking into mind control, for the purposes of spying and carrying information, unknown to the courier (Manchurian Candidate). Thus began MK-ULTRA in 1953. Gottlieb ran the program, which included electric shocks, sleep deprivation, personality wiping, LSD, repetitive audio reinforcement over weeks, and heaven knows what else. This also ran in Toronto.

Gottlieb eventually went away and in 1975, the Church Committee discovered who he was, via exposing MK-ULTRA. Gottlieb went straight to the records warehouse and destroyed everything. On the stand, he developed an incredible case of memory loss, almost as bad as the people he tortured. The politicians didn't really know the extent of the program so they let him go.

The leftovers are slogging around Canada and the US. Broken people, some with their memory wiped, so they don't know their own families. Some with multiple personalities. Some developed alcohol and substance abuse issues. Some just wander in and out of hospitals.  A few people sued and got settlements.

Gottlieb was friends with Frank Olsen, who was thrown jumped out of a hotel window and died. Eventually President Ford admitted to it, met and apologized to the family, and awarded them compensation.

This is your tax dollars and your government. This is what we know. Imagine what we don't know. MK-ULTRA was closed down, but you're a fool if you think the work stopped.



No thank you, I'd rather have sex with Charlie Sheen

• Little Feat, one of my favorite bands, is celebrating its 50th birthday. Tune in and watch them play a few songs. RIP Lowell George and Ritchie Hayward.

Direct from the NSA:
Discover more about our commitment to protecting civil liberties and privacy in our 1st semi-annual NSA Civil Liberties and Privacy Officer Report.   Cut it out. Stop. Next up: Dick Cheney's report on making and keeping friends.

• Did you hear about the partying dyslexic?  He swallowed the LDS.

Faceyspaces suspended the Israeli Prime Minister's page for 24 hours over 'hate speech'.  I'm laughing too hard to find the link.


Everybody's favorite always mad lady, AOC (see below), says it is 'barbarism' that the US does not guarantee a 'right' to housing.  Everybody's most-tolerated blogger, lefty, says if this is true, when is she paying my mortgage?




It Has Started.
2 men from the Netherlands have been arrested for trespassing at Area 51. One told police he was a YouTube personality. They were arrested 3 miles inside the gate.

But but but... I'm famous! I'm a YouTube celebrity! People love and respect me! They get up early just to see my videos.. I'm popular. An influencer. Girls like me. Really. YouTube celebrities don't lie.

I've never been to Nevada, but I understand it's incredibly difficult to get near the gate, no less 3 miles in. They have vibration sensors and audio. They have very serious men in camo, with the guns people want taken away. They are private security and call the sheriff to arrest interlopers. The sign says shooting is authorized. You can search YouTube for videos of people trying to get in and watch what happens. They're watched the entire time by the guards. The moment someone crosses the line, they're there. Claiming they were 3 miles inside doesn't seem to fit with reality. Add the fact that the base knows The People From Faceyspaces are coming, and you smell something off. As Flounder said, about the upcoming hordes....




Heroes of the Stupid

A North Carolina woman cut off her husband's penis after tying him up. Deputies found the severed limb and gave it to medics.  All together now - OUCH




SJW Silliness

Dateline San Francisco, California: SJW Central has just announced that White blood cells are a tool of the patriarchy and will be renamed Pink blood cells, to be inclusive. The red blood cells will absolutely not work because Trump Hat, so the red blood cells will identify as blue.  [ThermionicEmissions, by lefty]

Illegal alien charged for alleged sex with a cow arrested again. Things sure must be different south of Texas.

Pete Buttigieg, presidential democratic candidate: Using a straw or eating a burger means you are 'part of the problem'

Why the way we teach kids table manners is actually kind of racist
The message that eating food with your hands is unmannered is dripping with the control and shame of colonization - and we need to rethink our idea of "good manners," says chef and food activist Joshna Maharaj.   Food Activist? Me too - everybody eat a candy bar.

Neo Liberal Conservatives

The entire neighborhood received a personal letter from an existing neighbor. The letter would allow us to get in on a great deal; the sale of their house before the realtor got it. Some people want a second home at the shore, but everyone wants a second home on the same block. Avoid the rush - get yours now!

We couldn't figure out what was up with this monumentous event.
A brief conversation with an occupant of the house in question turned up the reason for the deluge of personal letters: the neighborhood demographics were changing. Translated, the hood is getting dark. The afros are invading. The darkies are in the hood. Property values will go to hell! Women will find their husbands insufficient! KFC will sponsor the block! Watermelon is mostly water!

It's great to see that attitudes have evolved.
Oops.

I'm staying put. Maybe they can help me get some rhythm.

The national speeling bee was the other day. The kids did so well that the award went to the entire group of eight. The kids appeared on the news: when asked what they wanted to do, one piped right up and said, "Gastroenterologist." These kids are just past the "I want to be a fireman!" stage. Each won $50,000, which most said will go for college. The mantra was "We worked very hard and these are the benefits."  

There were seven Indian kids and one caucasian female.

Before the Bee was over, SJWs flooded the hall, demanding Children of Color and trans kids win, retroactively.

Dear lefty:

• What do I do, now that my state outlaws abortion?
• Retroactively abort the politicians.

Sylvester Stallone (72) is making Rambo 5. He just got done making Rocky 47 and vowed all of his movies will have a number in them. His stunt double does all the walking and speaking. Nobody does any acting.

• Toronto is in an NBA final. Even I know this is odd. They will only play if the court is laid on top of the hockey ice.

In case you were wondering, and I know you were, English cockers are every bit as wacky and neurotic as American cockers.

• The Air Force says the sky trail shaped like a penis was unintentional. The plane's tendency to skywrite "The Pope Fucks Little Boys" is also unintentional.

A Pennsylvania (not Florida) auto auction sold a car, later found out to contain a man in the trunk. Auction officials said it's just like a spare tire; in case your man deflates or gets a nail in him, you replace him with the spare man.

• Can we do away with Roman numerals - it's MMXIX already

Snapchat employees have abused internal tools to access user date, including phone numbers, snaps, location info and more.

When It Rains, It Pours. And It Doesn't Stop.

We're cleaning the house, although I'm not exactly sure why.

Mrs lefty is leading the Cleaning Charge, bless her.
She generally leads the Cleaning Charge.
I'll be honest - she always leads the Cleaning Charge.
She's a cleaner: I'm a knowledge worker.

Nobody here is blessed with any grace.  To put a finer point on it, we trip over our own feet. Sometimes we trip over others' feet. It's a pretty dangerous combination.

We have our routes through the house down fairly well. We can move without additional tripping or attempting to fly and failing. As Stuff is removed, the pathways get larger (yay!). However, the thing I don't understand is that we're tripping quite a bit more. With all that additional space, my clown feet are finding more things to send me airborne, then floorborne. With a clear carpet (we discovered carpet under everything), I somehow manage to kick something that's off to the side. Wife somehow manages to trip over her own feet, although this might not have anything to do with carpet (we think it might be the combination of the level floor and her feet).

The only area of the house we refuse to clean is the steps, for obvious reasons.

• Bill Cosby has been declared a 'sexually violent predator' (like all comedians)
• The only remaining question is whether they serve Jello pudding in jail

I have a great idea for the Jurassic Park endless series of movies...
Jurassic Park: The End -where an asteroid falls to Earth and destroys the park.




Today's Best Headline: Man who posed as a housewife pleads guilty to making secret sex tapes with 150 men.

A Florida man (of course, Florida) enjoyed dressing as a woman, put ads in locals about being a bored housewife, had men over, and had sex with them. He taped the goings on and put them up on a website (because it isn't sex until somebody videos it).

I vaguely remember having one sex class in grade school, so perhaps I'm a bit behind (pardon the pun), but I vaguely remember there being several significant differences between men and women. I don't care how dark it may have been - there are several things that are known to be giveaways, namely facial hair, lacking breasts, and least of all, a penis. Any of these things should be cause for alarm, if one is a straight male and determined to stay that way.

No, really - a penis?
How does one fail to notice a penis?
Even the most diminutive apparatus still qualifies as an Outie, where we would expect to find an Innie.
We must assume they were using the rear entrance. If so, how does a swinging bit escape consciousness? She could have a really really large clitoris, but they don't come in that size. Is this what they call cognitive dissonance? Active denial? Rug burn?

After the encounter, the crossdresser put the video up on his website.
Gentlemen, if this isn't enough to put you off quickies with strangers, I don't know what is. The John has a pretty good chance of not being recognized, as the site is a pay site, and ever so slightly gay.

The way I see it, if you're going to meet a stranger for an encounter, you need to do a tiny amount of research... grab the crotch. If she hits you, you were at the right place. If she smiles..... RUN.

And in the name of all that is holy, stay out of Florida. There are weird people there.



Not as great a headline, but still good: Robot brothel planned for Houston gets pushback from religious group.

Just when shy and/or ugly guys think they have a sure thing, religion is there to throw a cold shower on it.  The religious group fights sex trafficking, which is a pretty noble fight. They're concerned that this will set them back.

Why? Will this encourage robot trafficking?
Are people unable to tell the difference between a human and a robot (like they can't tell the difference between a female and a man in a dress)?

The Good Fight doesn't end there, though: the group states that the brothel is going to teach men to become rapists.

Why? Are they training them to be priests?
Perhaps they should ask Nevada, which has areas where brothels are legal. If nothing else, it's training them to pay for sex, which is great practice for the real world.

As if this weren't silly enough, they add: What's next - child robots? Where's the line?

Do you think we're that stupid or are you that stupid?
I've had sex with my wife for years. At no point did this lead to me wanting a child (for sex or via procreation).

The one great thing to come out of this is that the religious folk referred to it as a Public Masturbation Business. That's funny.

• Excited about Apple iOS 12? It has a quiet addition: it gives you a trust rating, based upon the number of calls and emails you send and receive. This is to help spot fraudulent transactions made from your phone. Bless their pointy little "we're all about privacy" heads.

According to the World Health Organization, alcohol is responsible for one in 20 deaths worldwide.

Let me correct the assertion: People pouring alcohol down their throats and driving or misbehaving is responsible for the deaths. Alcohol doesn't drive cars any more than guns shoot people.

We have a long standing War on Drugs. We're winding up a War on Opiates. Why is it ok to drive drunk? To commit violence?  Think about it.

• Do you have a Twitter account? Do you ever use the Direct Message (private) conversation function? 

• Twitter on Friday said that a recently-patched bug in its platform enabled software developers to read users’ private direct messages or protected tweets.
• Well, it's time to call the lawyers. Whatever it is, Twitter will screw it up. They're so busy kicking out undesirables, they don't care about their own security. I can't have my plans for World Domination leaked.... 

 A recent study on people's perceptions of browsers' Private Mode produced some interesting results. Understand that Private Mode offers you no more security than normal browser windows. In theory, it deletes your online activity. In practice, it doesn't always. Over here at the ThermionicEmissions sprawling complex, we concentrate on making the browsing as anonymous and safe as possible, PLUS having everything deleted when we exit the browser. It really doesn't matter if we've been looking up the safety record of Caterpillar heavy equipment or interesting uses for squid; when we tell the browser to forget history, we expect it to forget the bleedin' history. 

Along these lines, Google has updated Chrome's privacy policy. 
The moniker 'privacy policy' is about as accurate as calling tax regulations 'Legal Ways to Avoid Taxes'.  Especially interesting is the way everything winds up getting back to Google, whether directly or indirectly. Work diligently to stop this nonsense. Avoid Chrome and browsers built on Chrome.

I've recommended Iron as a Chrome build that doesn't phone home to Google. A recent 'privacy policy' proved this is not entirely true. It's very sneaky and indirect. There is an open source variant called Chromium, but I have little hope for it. I installed it recently to test it out and wasn't impressed. Avoid this crap.

• Many famous UFO cases occurred around military bases with nuclear weapons.

Here's a brief reminder on Constitutional Amendments, from some guy with a blog and no training:

To the people going on about freedom of speech being abridged on social media, you have no freedom of speech. The First Amendment guarantees that the government will make no laws abridging freedom of speech. This does not hold for Faceyspaces, Twitter, Google, Instagram, and any other crap you sign into and whine publicly, while looking at cat gifs.

While people would prefer freedom of speech extend to private entities, it doesn't, and that's reality. It's a shame people with resources and reach are not aware of this. This includes James Woods - a man with a documented spectacular IQ and observed wit.

Two days ago, James Woods, a very outspoken conservative, had his Twitter account suspended for retweeting a gif. He was told if he removed it, his account would be reinstated. An unidentified high-level Twitter person stated they were protective of the Democratic Party and were unhappy about Woods' retweet. It's been supposed then admitted that Twitter has an extreme left bias. This is their right, whether people like it or not. Honestly, it pisses me off, because I think all sides should be heard. The left is cheering because people who disagree with them are being silenced, while they should be upset that anyone is being booted for speaking their mind. It might be their own people next time. If Twitter's policies continue, it will simply become a left paradise. Again, this is their right.

There are some really tricky and vague legal machinations that can be used to curb this behavior, including the ability to prosecute based upon Twitter's initial claim of free speech. There are also some net neutrality laws that may apply.

The libertarian stance isn't that hard to figure out: our mantra is "Leave me alone." Another is "let the market decide". Along those lines, there is GAB, whose motto is #SpeakFreely. Every viewpoint is welcome. Unfortunately this includes speech with which we disagree: antisemites, holocaust deniers, and nazis. Currently it's pretty right wing, with a smattering of libertarians. The left is welcome, and there are a few. You are free to mute anything you don't like, as on Twitter. Unlike Twitter and the others, there is no censorship.  Oddly enough, the only censorship demands are coming from providers, Google, Amazon, and Paypal. Their domain hosting and servers have been threatened multiple times because entities don't like what a member said. This smells of collusion, but is pretty far from my area of knowledge.

I Don't Want You Dead - Just Stop Breathing

Dove apologized for a body wash commercial where a black woman turned white after using the product. Hellfire and Fury ensued. Be fair - who could have seen that going wrong?

• Do satanists threaten their children that if they're bad, they'll go to heaven?

Harvey Weinstein has been caught with his pants down. Literally.

Another sexual harassment suit has hit, this time going public. The previous ones haven't, because Harvey is the price of being a star. You apparently had to have sex with Harvey. Everyone was afraid to say anything, lest they be thrown out of Hollywood. Incidentally, Harvey was just thrown out of The Weinstein Company, which he formed with his brother and two others. Incidentally, there has been a number of suits settled already, which means this was even less a secret.

There's absolutely no excuse for the behavior of this animal. Who knows how many were hurt.

Corey Feldman has stated that there are pedophiles in Hollywood, that have messed with young stars. He is terrified to name names, for obvious reasons. I wonder if Harvey is the name he wanted to say. The name Charlie Sheen may pop up also, in reference to Corey Haim.

While we're on the topic, designer Donna Karan defended Weinstein, saying that the way the actresses dressed, what were they asking for? Yes, she just blamed the victim.

• Our friends over at United Airlines are in the news again, but this time it's not their fault. A passenger tried to escape the plane by opening the emergency exit door, but failed. Then tried again. And again. The third time was the charm, in terms of a Federal Air Marshal restraining him and having him arrested upon landing. The moral of the story is that if you feel warm, talk to a flight attendant. They will open the emergency exit for you.

Angry that her husband played too much golf, a woman cut off his penis and flushed it down the toilet.  Judging from her actions, he'll continue to get as much sex as he did before she pruned his hedge.

• Look out for more information on the Las Vegas shooting. The lone wolf shooter narrative looks to be falling apart, as there are reports of other shooters, some on the ground. There is also video, as the casino is surveilled, plus a camera that looks downward from the roof.

This is Wales' most haunted public toilet. As determined by the Twenty Seven Point Wales Restroom Haunting Scale. And because there are lesser haunted public toilets in Wales.

• Why does privacy matter? In simple terms, if you haven't been paying attention to my constant ranting.

As mentioned earlier, Whole Foods has experienced a payment card breach. Oddly enough, it's at the in-store table service and taprooms, not at the checkouts, which use a different Point of Sale (POS) system. The breach was announced two weeks ago and hasn't been updated. Why upset your customers more?

• Over 5,000 Morrisons (British supermarket) staff have sued the company, after their personal and financial data was leaked by a disgruntled insider. Things get more interesting when Morrisons claimed it was not liable. Morrisons was, however, awarded 170,000 pounds for the leak, but the employees got nothing. This company's behavior is so abhorrent, American companies want to bring them in as consultants.

In this month's (year's?) best headline, "Florida man drops pants and sodomizes pink flamingo to death." Harvey Weinstein refuses to divulge his whereabouts on the day in question.

• North Korea hacked South Korea's military network, gaining access to 235 gigabytes of sensitive data. And by sensitive data, we mean pictures of big-breasted Korean women in skimpy bathing suits.

Top defense contractors, including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing, do not have HTTPS web encryption enabled by default. This is why we can't have nice things. It's also why the biggest-spending war machine in the world doesn't stand a chance against electronic espionage. PORN websites have HTTPS encryption enabled. Or so I hear.

• Millions of Pornhub users have been hit with a malvertizing attack. An ad on the page, disguised as a 'legitimate' ad, redirected users to a fake webpage, where Chrome and Firefox users were presented with an update screen, which installed the malware. Not that any of us go to Pornhub, the largest group of porn sites on the internet.

October 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day.

ThermionicEmissions interrupts its normal merriment to get serious:

• You feel like shit - we understand. The pain is crippling. 
• Reach out and talk to someone.. a friend, relative, counselor, online friends, suicide hotline 1-800-273-TALK (8255). 
• From someone who has been there.
• You may think you mean nothing to anybody. You're wrong. You will leave a trail of destruction in your wake that you can't imagine. Family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, even online buddies' lives will be affected and this will carry through to the end of their days. People close to me, after having seen what death does to families and friends, swear they'll never commit suicide, no matter how bad the pain gets.
• It is important to all these people, and me, that you reach out when you're feeling like hurting yourself (or others).
• You don't have to feel like this. This is not normal. There are professionals to talk to and medicines that help.
• Let's not lose one more.

Yes, Pastor, Those Are Your Wife's Nudes

You think you're having a bad day.. and you just might be.. but this guy might win an award. He filed a suit against a Texas Toyota dealership alleging nude photos of his wife were sent to a swingers' site while he was buying a Toyota last year.

Hmmm..... I think I'm getting a feeling....

The allegations are quite serious under the law and the pastor and his wife have retained famous lawyer Gloria Allred (parodied on Family Guy as Gloria Ironbox). The salesman did maintain an account on the swingers' site and there's some electronic proof of hijinks, so I wouldn't want to be him at this point.

This blog would be doing a disservice to its readers if it didn't, at some point, say that pastors NEVER join swinging sites or take naked pictures of their wives or girlfriends or boyfriends or small furry rodents. And after they never submit these pictures, they also never blame anybody else because they would never have done such a thing. Unfortunately, the name of the swinging site was not released. Because we need to do our due diligence to discover facts in this case.

• although it has been joked about before and although it is doubted that this is correct, I wanted to share a small item of information on the combination of dogs and Roombas.

So maybe I'm wrong about the whole Internet of Things concept. A certain Whirlpool dryer will post a tweet when its drying cycle is finished. Because you need this in your life.

• My stomach is growling, which isn't all that odd. What IS odd is that there's a call and response thing happening between one side and the other. With different pitch growls. Do I ignore it or call an exorcist?

Thought for the day: it's way too early this morning.

• An Italian actress who pledged to perform sex acts upon people who voted no in a referendum is poised to become a woman of her word, scheduling appearances in many cities. We do not have this kind of stand-up behavior in the US: Madonna offered blowjobs to people voting for Hillary and an adult actress called Mia Kalifa offered the same for Trump voters. Neither came through.  America will never be the Best Country until we are all people of our word.

This poor British dude lost his penis in a childhood accident and recently got it replaced at tremendous cost. When word of his eight inch appliance, which could go forever, got out, he was deluged with offers. This far he has only used it with a local working girl and says he's too busy to take anyone else up on their offers.  I dunno.. I suspect we have different priorities....

Along related lines, a man was found, dead, with his penis cut off, in an NYC rest room. At this point all my male readers are bent over, crossing their legs involuntarily.

• Southwest Airlines had to make an unscheduled stop yesterday due to an additional passenger. A woman gave birth on the place. A representative for Southwest said they were overjoyed that everybody was ok and they would only charge the newborn half the going rate.

A man fatally shot his wife for urging him to kill himself. I suspect he would have gotten the better deal either way.

• Nancy Pelosi, stalwart silly person and California's recurring nightmare, just said, "I don't think people want new direction." There is also talk of California seceding from the US.  I think this is a perfect idea, especially if they appoint Pelosi as their representative. This way, no one will have to do anything and nothing will ever get done. 

Here's a well-written beginner's guide to beefing up your privacy and security online.

• Be careful of what you say at Virginia Tech: there is now a list of 50 expressions to be considered microaggressions. This joyous celebration of free speech came from meetings that included such stalwarts of independent thinking as the NAACP, the Muslim Student Association, and the Jewish Student Union.

A thief was recently apprehended with the aid of a BMW. The remote access system kept the doors locked until the police arrived. Yay - one for the good guys. Hang on... car doors being locked remotely? Remote control of many car functions, including acceleration and braking (already hacked on some cars)? All of this overriding the driver's actions?  Perhaps not.  Remember this when you buy a car.

• Mrs lefty and I were discussing her recent revulsion for the coming cold, as well as her revulsion for the heat/humidity as she gets older. I'm no great fan of either but I don't complain - it means I don't have to MOW anymore!

NOTE to anyone considering a blog on this platform: the spell checker does not recognize yay, ok, or blowjob.

Don't forget your Christmas shopping!