February 2023 – Bear Bussjaeger

Of Course You Can’t Breathe

I accidentally clicked on a report, but it was sorta worth it for the graphic I found.

You’re outside, the plandemic is over, and they didn’t work as advertised anyway.

Take the damned mask off.

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“Cloud Storage” Is Technobabble For “Steal My Shit”

LastPass Vault Breached via Employee’s Home Computer, Giving Keys to the Kingdom to Hackers
Millions of LastPass users may be at risk after a major breach of the home computer of one of their top employees. This employee was only one of four people in the company with access to their corporate vault. The breach may have come through a home Plex media account, according to Ars Technica, and appears to have been perpetrated by the same hackers who breached LastPass security on a smaller scale last August. At about the same time, Plex’s security was also breached.

If you put it online, it is vulnerable. Period.

I use a password manager. It’s resident on my home computer, and that’s where it keeps the (encrypted) data.

The only thing I use cloud storage for are nonsensitive files I mean to share. That’s basically Dropbox, but frankly my website counts as the cloud; obviously I want to share that. I don’t put private files on the website, not even in a private, password protected directory.

I’m old enough that I used to use mainframe computing with remote, pretty-dumb terminals; cloud storage and cloud computing always sounded like a return to the bad old days.

But… YMMV. If you really want to automagically share your passwords amongst multiple devices — laptop, phone, etc. — and just can’t be troubled to type in your passwords, go for it.

But don’t whine when your laziness gets you hacked, and your money and identity stolen. Cloud storage is just as convenient for hackers as it is for you.

I Have An Alternate Theory

She’s got a bone to peck! Woman rushed to hospital after 2inch chicken bone gets stuck in her butt
A 51-year-old woman has been rushed to hospital after getting a chicken bone stuck in her bottom.

The unnamed individual from Kuwait, the Middle East, tended to swallow her food quickly rather than chewing because she has lost her upper teeth.

There was no choking or stomach pain after ingesting the two-inch long bone, but later it became wedged in her backside.

Doctors successfully removed the bone by applying gel to numb the area before applying A slight force. The patient has been advised to chew her food.

So this woman, with no upper teeth, gnawed a chicken breast and broke off a checkmark-shaped part of the bird’s clavicle. The bone made it down her throat, through her stomach, and past the small and large intestines without difficulty. But then somehow got stuck sticking out of her ass, requiring nothing more than some lube and a gentle tug to dislodge it.

Actually, there are a couple of possibilities, but I doubt the bone took a scenic tour of her alimentary canal.

TZP Column: (Non)Citizen Soldiers

NON-CITIZENS AND GUN CONTROL
I made a bet with myself: Most folks seeing that title probably thought I’d be talking about illegals. Nope. I’m talking about another class of non-citizens in America.

No, not green card holders either.

David Codrea wrote a column about a recent DOD report on suicide prevention in the military.
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War Stories

Tam speaks of “war stories” whilst reviewing Bloodsport.

The movie is based on the BS war stories and drunken fabulations of noted Bullshido master Frank Dux, whose claims include winning a Medal of Honor while participating in super secret missions as a USMC reservist in the early Eighties, in between occasionally competing in apocryphal underground death matches like the one in the movie, or the ones Pam from Archer fought in to pay for college.
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Not back then, though! The world was full of Frank Duxes! Any Army-Navy store of any size had a handful of regulars who spun tall tales at the cyclic rate with a glorious disregard for plausibility. While only a few hundred SEALs served in Vietnam, every neighborhood gun store had at least three or four of them.

My “war” was Gulf War Part One. On the very rare occasion I’m asked what I did:

I was a REMF manning a HARM navigation beacon.

Hell, during the deployment, that’s what I told folks to discouraged brass from visiting us. Once they worked out what it meant, it worked.

Tam’s assessment of Bloodsport is spot on, too. Stupid, but fun.

CBS Discovers That Hurricanes Are WINDY

Who knew?

Stronger hurricane winds threaten homes — even away from the coasts
Coastal and river communities in the U.S. today face increased flooding as climate change creates conditions linked to stronger hurricanes, But there’s another, less-known danger: More powerful winds that can down power lines, blow roofs off homes and cause billions in property damage, according to new research.

How Ms. Ivanova missed the fact that hurricanes are windy beats me. Wind speed, the Saffir-Simpson Scale, is only how hurricanes are categorized, after all.

Today, these storms are considered an aberration. But research suggests they will become more frequent over the next 30 years as climate change makes stronger hurricanes more common.
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Because the past decade has seen relatively few hurricanes…

So hurricanes have been decreasing, but we must all fear stronger hurricanes because…

First Street predicted the changes by creating 58,000 hurricane models, using the characteristics of today’s storms, and subjecting them to current and expected climate conditions.

…they made models of what hurricanes would look like if they did increase and get stronger. Although it beats the hell out of me why I should trust models that don’t match the reality of decreasing ACE (for the past twenty years, not just the past decade, Ivanova).

If these folks like models so much, I wish they stick to plastic. Then when they build this…

…and call it a P-51 Mustang…

…the stupid mistake won’t mislead the public and misinform policy.

Did Tox Screen Show That He Poisoned Himself, Too?

Arkancide. Older death, but more details have been released. This one is notable, because it finally claims a shotgun was present, contradicting all previous reports.

Shotgun discovered near body of former Clinton aide Mark Middleton: report
A new set of documents obtained by the Daily Mail states that a Stoeger 12-gauge coach shotgun was 30 feet from the body of Mark Middleton when he was found dead on Heifer Ranch in Perryville, Arkansas, on May 7, 2022.
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The additional papers, written by Sgt. Keenan Carter, also detail the lengths Middleton, 59, went to to ensure his suicide attempt was successful by standing on a bench and tying an electrical cord around his neck before finally shooting himself in the chest.

30 feet. That’s impressive. Do any of my readers have a Stoeger 12 gauge (or similar coach gun) you could try this with? I’ve seen shotguns fly out of careless hands, but never more than maybe 6 feet.

To be fair, associating with Clinton and Epstein clearly indicates suicidal tendencies.

So I’m Pedantic

Accuracy matters. I ran across the in my news feeds this morning, and it bugged me more than it should.

Legendary Journalist Has Gone Senile

Seymour Hersh, that is. He of “the US blew up the Nordstream pipeline” infamy.

Now it’s those shot down UFOs.

Legendary Journalist Says He Knows What the ‘Mystery Object’ Was the US Military Shot Down Over Alaska
“The federal government has a contract with the meteorology department, the weather department, at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks—that is one cold place, it’s way up there.”

Hersh, who said he’s visited the university campus there, said it’s so cold in Fairbanks that there’s no weather station there. So the university uses what Hersh describes as small aerial vehicles that collect weather data that is transmitted back to officials at the university, who can notify pilots flying over the Arctic Circle of any unusual weather activity.

The university may not have a weather station, but Fairbanks International Airport certainly does. In fact, the National Weather Service has ten weather stations in the Fairbanks area.

I’ve been to Fairbanks, too. It is not “too cold” for a weather station.

I see that the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica station is operating, and that’s a hell of a lot colder than Fairbanks, Alaska.

Some Much For Indictments

The Fulton Couty DA set up a grand jury to investigate Trump et al for 2020 election interferrence/misinformation, and so forth. A judge recently ordered a partial unsealing of the proceedings.

And then the giggling, mentally-14yo twit of a grand jury foreman, Emily Kohrs, went on a media tour. And very likely torpedoed the DA’s hopes of indicting Trump.

Fulton County Grand Jury Forewoman Admits ‘I Told My Boyfriend’ About Proceedings
“I told my boyfriend at one point during proceeding, during all this, I came home and I told him,” Kohrs told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) in an interview Tuesday afternoon. “Do you know that if I was in a room with Donald Trump and Joseph Biden and they knew who I was, they would both want to speak to me.”

“I told my boyfriend at one point during proceeding</b…”

And other little tidbits about what they did, along with some vague hints. but there’s a little problem with that. Grand jury proceedings are secret.

“shall keep the deliberations of the grand jury secret unless called upon to give evidence thereof in some court of law of this state.”

Someone didn’t read her Grand Jury Handbook.

Fani Willis, if she’s that bright, must be pissed. If anyone gets indicted now, it’ll probably be ditzy little Kohrs. For violating the secrecy of proceedings as they happened, and for continuing to do so to the media.