Saturday, December 5, 2020

Oh, the horror! Serbia ‘likely user’ of surveillance software made in Israel

 From Balkan Insight, which never misses an opportunity to kick Serbia.

 “Serbia’s BIA intelligence agency has been listed among likely users of controversial software that enable it to locate every phone in the country in seconds …”

https://balkaninsight.com/2020/12/04/serbian-security-service-named-among-users-of-israeli-surveillance-software/

Citizen Lab conducted the data mining for the study. Citizen Lab is funded by the Ford Foundation, George Soros’s Open Society Institute, by other money-granting organizations and by Palantir Technologies, Virus Total and Oculus Info, a subsidiary of Facebook. Anyone who believes Citizen Lab is fair and always above board has not been paying attention.

 

 

A comment from another site

 “Passed a guy on a Road King yesterday. He was wearing a mask.”

 Comment to “A culture this stupid cannot survive,” at American Digest.

 

 

 

Tool definitions

 TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.

HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.

Heart and blood at Christmas

 For Christmas my wife bought two smart watches. I don't know what the name is, but the watches do a bunch of stuff, so they are smart watches.

She and I both keep track of pulse rates and blood-oxygen counts.

My heart and my lungs are doing a good job. My pulse rate generally falls between 55 and 59, although this morning I had a rate of 51 and then 50. Blood-oxygen levels almost always are 98, 99 or 100. My wife said her blood-oxygen almost always is 97 or higher, but her pulse rate sometimes is as high as 88.


Meaningless, meaningless

Vanderbilt woman soccer player nominated for award for courage after she squibs second-half kickoff in real football game. She also was named SEC special teams co-player of the week. Vanderbilt lost the game against Missouri, 0-40.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/female-college-student-nominated-for-courage-award-after-kicking-football-in-game/

 

Friday, December 4, 2020

McCurtain County Oklahoma man busted for drugs, guns, moonshine still, giving drugs to minors

 “When officers entered the house, the 48-year-old suspect was in bed with a 17-year-old girl

Clarksville (Texas) Times reprint of article in McCurtain County Gazette.

Idabel, Oklahoma, Nov. 21, 2020:

Deputies seize moonshine still, drugs and guns

Sheriff's officers seized a moonshine still, meth, prescription pills and guns while serving a search warrant at a Lukfata home Thursday.

Officers investigated a home on Old Military Road after receiving complaints that a 48-year-old man there was trading teenage girls meth in exchange for sex. After investigating further and learning of an active moonshine still on the property, officers got a search warrant for drugs, guns and the still.

ABLE commission agents helped deputies serve the search warrant Thursday at the home. When officers entered the house, the 48-year-old suspect was in bed with a 17-year-old girl, officers said.

There was a barrel of mash for whiskey cooking in the living room, officers said, and a still making whiskey behind the house. Deputy John Jones said officers also seized meth, used syringes, a large amount of prescription pills, scales, baggies and guns.

Officers found hidden containers inside walls in the home which were disguised as electrical outlets, but contained boxes inside the wall to hide drugs.

The suspect, who is a convicted felon, was arrested for giving a controlled, dangerous substance to a juvenile, possession with intent to distribute CDS, possession of a firearm after a former felony conviction, maintaining a place where drugs are kept or sold, and numerous ABLE commission charges related to the moonshine still.

(Good to know somebody is keeping long-standing traditions in Southeast Oklahoma. Moonshine, drugs, consensual sex with underage girls. Age of consent is 16 in Oklahoma.)

Texas girl

 A sweetheart at the rodeo.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/something-good/girl-3-follows-family-tradition-in-the-rodeo-arena/2462624/

Link at knuckledraggin.