I am not much of a TV watcher.
My favorites are shows that ran when I was a kid. Perry Mason, The Untouchables. Gunsmoke, Bonanza. Mission Impossible, Dragnet. Petticoat Junction, Here Come the Brides. The Avengers, and The Saint.
“The Saint” was Roger Moore’s vehicle before he replaced Sean Connery as James Bond. He played roguish investigator Simon Templar, or “The Saint” for Templar’s initials. He was a lady’s man, but he was able to slug it out with the criminals who menaced decent people. He put on a devil-may-care façade, but he was a knight errant who was willing to risk his life fighting for justice. In many of the shows, a weak person overcomes his or her fallen nature to do something courageous to help The Saint.
Roger Moore as “The Saint”
The Saint was a good spy and break-in man, but he only used such powers to help victims.
In “The Saint,” like the rest of the shows named above, good wins and evil loses.
Sadly, that’s not how it is in real life.
Leftist news sources are touting that someone hacked the cellphone of President Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly in 2016. This is somehow in their twisted minds supposed to show Trump and his people are careless or are in collusion with the Russians.
The leftist media are not calling for anyone’s arrest over the alleged hacking.
They are also silent on the fact the FBI and likely the CIA used taxpayer dollars to put spies into the Trump campaign to help Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and the many upper income traitors in the government whose political futures and careers were tied to Obama and Hillary.
They are also silent on Chinese spies gaining access to defense secrets.
Some military people will sell our secrets for money. Others do so because they are objectively disordered like Bradley/Chelsea/Fruitcake Manning, the jailed soldier he turned she/it who leaked thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks, and whose freak surgery we taxpayers paid for. Obama commuted his/her/its sentence and he/she/it is now running to be a Democrat senator from Maryland. He/she/it has not dropped out of the race even after a potential suicide alarm.
It is much more likely that greedy and incautious defense contractors will have sensitive info on their hackable computers …. exactly where the info shouldn’t be. Breitbart ran such a story 6/8/2018. They noted “Chinese hackers stole “massive amounts of highly sensitive data” from a U.S. Navy contractor tasked with developing supersonic anti-ship submarine missiles, according to reports.
Edward Snowden was a defense contractor and former CIA and NSA employee who released thousands of documents proving the NSA and others in the US government were spying on average Americans. Snowden, unlike Fruitcake, is evidently wired normally, and while in exile in Russia, he has been vamped and proposed to by Anna Vasilyevna Kushchyenkonna aka Anna Chapman, the notorious Russian spy and femme fatale.
Anna Chapman hunts the Abominable Snowden
Many defense contractors sell to foreign countries. To curry favor with foreign governments, some companies hire foreign nationals. I was doing defense contract work with a maker of military drones, and I parted company with them because they allowed foreign nationals from Moslem countries to linger unsupervised in areas where the blueprints to the drones and the control systems were, and where the computer programming codes to the control systems were.
Given such negligent supervision, an intelligent foreigner could grab drawings over time to assist his home government or some other entity with goals unfriendly to the men and women of our armed services. Top managers at the company where I worked were unwilling to stop this practice …. and we parted company. I did report the guilty to my congressman, and I have evidence on this company’s managers if the DOJ would actually care about something besides their warfare against President Trump.
I’m no expert on computer tracking and monitoring. I have a degree in engineering, and familiarity with mechanical, electrical, civil, aviation, and chemical engineering. I also have a working knowledge of farming, heavy industry and mining practices, toxicology and forensic science because I have worked in these fields. However, there are many gaping holes in my knowledge. Among these is computer savvy. So I try to keep my exposure to computer hackers as low as possible.
I imagine (and you computer geeks can tell me if I’m right on this) there is a way to track defense sensitive information being uploaded onto laptops, portable drives, phones, and the like. Defense secrets need to be kept from transfer outside a defense plant. Subcontractors to the prime contractors, like those who make wiring harnesses and computer components and devise computer programs for communication, weapons guidance, avionics, nuclear power, and the like also need control.
Likewise with hiring people who are not natives of the United States for defense projects. Foreign engineers have stolen critical defense secrets and nuclear power plant secrets from the companies whose HR dolts allowed their hiring.
The United States has the most innovative scientists in the world and the culture best suited for innovations. With the exception of a few highly gifted foreigners who can be vetted, and who are proven friends of the United States, there is no need to employ foreigners in defense industries. We have the engineers, computer people, and tradesmen who can get the job done.
Only a few thousand emigrants to the US come in each year on O-1 (extraordinary ability or achievement) visas. An O-1 visa holder usually is elite among the world’s technical people. The vast majority of people who come here on white collar visas each year are worse or are no better than our own people in doing skilled work. We don’t really need them, especially in defense work or in the nuclear industry or other sensitive work.
This doesn’t mean the rest of the world is stupid. The Chinese and Indians have more computer people than we do, because there are three or four times as many of them … even if they don’t allow illegal immigration like we do. Certainly Japan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran, and even small and isolated North Korea have good capability in this regard. The governments and corporations of those countries can dedicate their time to probing our weaknesses.
The Russians have always had capable mathematicians, physicists, and industrial engineers.
The Europeans likewise have excelled in industry and science.
But America has led. Foreigners hit on us to short-cut having to develop technology themselves.
So the Russians and other Euros spy on us too, just like the Asians and the Islamists.
(Or they do like the top Krauts at Volkswagen did, when they installed devices on cars to allow them to cheat on emissions tests to give them an illegal leg up on the US auto market.)
Scientists, being curious, talk shop talk and exchange ideas. A lot of them are brilliant in their fields but don’t have the common sense not to brag or not to share ideas with foreigners who might be scavenging.
Large segments of the defense industry lack the basic common sense of controlling information from hacking or theft by employees or “guests” who pose as college kids from places like the Mideast, or South Asia, or China.
Our own people can steal secrets too, so I’m not leaving them out. The WASPy Clintons, for example, transferred missile technology to China in the 1990s in exchange for campaign money. Hillary allowed the sale of 20% of our uranium reserves to the Putin regime in exchange for close to $150 million for her foundation. Gestapo Mueller, while chief of the FBI, allowed it to happen. If anyone honest rises to power in the US Justice Dept., Gestapo Mueller will rot in prison too.
If the FBI and the CIA and the NSA, instead of spying on pro-American people like President Trump, and tens of millions of the rest of us, had any decency, they could help leaders of defense contractors and other national defense important industries make their outfits more resistant to espionage. Then they would be actually performing their missions.
Part of being your own detective is checking on your vulnerabilities and limiting them before attacks take place. We are talking about spies because counterintelligence is a neglected facet of being your own detective.
Too many “consultants” and “experts” spew hot air after such crimes take place. You have to be your family’s detective and can be before disaster strikes.
If you and your spouse walk around your neighborhood at dusk, you can see all sorts of things you and your neighbors do to make yourselves vulnerable.
Trash left out, newspapers left out, and mail not taken in are signs someone is not at home.
Open garage doors display cars and property.
Open garage door, goods ready for stealing, unsecured bike. Courtesy of Overhead Garage Door.
Kids’ bikes and other toys left in the front yard are prone to theft. They also tell a criminal the house has children …. and they can prey upon the children or prey upon the parents by targeting the children.
A baseball bat or a skateboard left in the yard is also a dandy window breaker. This enables burglars and home invaders to get into a house quicker.
People who don’t use drapes or blinds display themselves and their belongings to the nosy, including criminals.
Small windows around the front door allow break-in artists to smash them and turn the dead bolt on any door with an inside deadbolt knob instead of a keyed lock. (You can replace the glass with tempered glass or wood or metal, or bar the door with metal rods, wooden planks, or plastic storage bins that jam the door against an inside wall on the inside.)
Now on to checking out the inside of your residence.
Your computer gives out info to the world because you put it there.
People chat on line or post on Facebook when they intend to go on vacation. Then their homes get robbed.
Or they post cute kid pics, and pervs track the kids for potential victimization.
Or teen girls and teen boys foolishly send pictures they shouldn’t send, some blackmailer intercepts them, and they are under pressure to perform lewd acts.
I found out the Summit County Ohio Prosecutor had a child support enforcement agent (Jean Workman) who was shacked up with a serial child molester (Scott Dietz) because she was stupid enough to post on her Facebook page a picture of her porcine self with the child predator at an amusement park with lots of kids. Prosecutor agent Jean Workman knowingly serviced a guy who made his own toddler daughters perform oral sex on him earlier. She later married him and is now known as Jean Workman Dietz. Naturally I put the intel about these scumbags to use.
Jean Workman (prosecutor agent) and Scott Dietz (convicted serial child rapist) at kiddie park. Author took this picture off Jean’s Facebook page and showed it to a judge. Eff the both of you scumbags.
Try to keep transactions by computer to a minimum.
We have a credit card purchase option for our books and our services, but we take payment by phone or by mail also for those who value their info.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the pukes who work for him hate you and your values. They also spy on you. Zuckerberg and his vermin have given info on tens of millions of people to firms so they can target them. So do other on-line social media magnates.
You are better off using WordPress or a rival web hosting service to set up your own webpage instead of relying on Facebook.
Try to stay away from needless electronics. Most of them come from China, and many of them have snoop programs on them.
Someone in the FBI who was not spying on the Trump administration in 2017 put out a press release warning parents about such toys. Criminals can monitor toys that have microphones, GPS tracking, WiFi or Bluetooth connections to get info on children and their families. It is possible for criminals to use the info to commit identity theft, or plan burglaries or kidnappings. (The Hill, 7/8/2017)
Skip the next seven paragraphs if you are easily offended.
1. In fact, some manufacturers install info-gathering circuitry in women’s vibrators!
2. Bubblehead Cassie Murdoch bubbled happily about one such merchant on the Mashable website 8/15/2017. She noted said device “has four sensors that measure temperature, the force of muscle contractions, and track the movement of the device.”
3. Chatty Cassie followed with this breathless prose: “When you’re done with your session, you can sync the (vibrator) with its app (available for iOS and Android). It then provides you with easy-to-read visualization of what was happening to your body while you were busy getting off.”
4. “To aid in that quest, the data collected from individual vibrators is being pooled to try to observe larger patterns. Don’t worry, thought, it’s anonymized and the company has taken pains to ensure your most intimate data is as secure as it can be.”
5. Sure, Cassie. Like no pervs, voyeurs, or blackmailers or gossips work for that outfit or will ever target its, errr, probes.
6. Dara Kerr, in a 2/1/2018 article for CNET, said hackers are able to take over vibrators that are remotely controllable. She warned strangers could be controlling the devices.
7. A pry could figure out a user’s name, location, body part of choice, amount of usage, and other less than desirable things for a woman to disclose. Or he or she could jump the route and make the sex toy fire up when the woman is reading bedtime stories to her children or entertaining house guests or having a repairman fix the furnace. And you thought the IRS was intrusive and painful.
Back to the mainstream. Voice activated assistant devices like Alexa are hackable, and the hackers can use them to listen in on people who own them. Kevin Murname reported an experiment proving Alexa’s soft spots in this regard in a 4/25/2018 article for Forbes.
I’m not going to write a book on this topic, but just give you some quick ideas as we are going into the summer vacation season.
Too many techie company magnates are like the robber barons of the late 1800s. Encourage your congress critters to push for antitrust cases against them. You can contact the White House on this also.
On the flip side, you can use your computer to check on people to see if they are bad news.
The pages of this website show how you can check people for crimes, lawsuits, and other issues that mean you should stay the hell away from them, and keep your loved ones away from them too.
Use on-line searches to aid in your research.
Fire is neither good nor bad. Under control, it heats a house. Out of control, it burns it down.
The same applies to your use of computers and other electronic devices.
Now on to another topic … the events of the past week.
President Trump, in imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum, has revealed European nations and Canada and Japan and China have imposed confiscatory tariffs on American products while expecting little or no pushback. Just by opening the tariff schedules for public review, President Trump has exposed the economic treason of the Bushes, the Clintons, the Obamas, and their top people who let these unfair trade deals victimize America’s people.
This is why Chamber of Commerce agitators, Soros and his paid leftist agitators, and others are obstructing President Trump and deliberately plotting to harm America’s people. They make money when our jobs and technology go overseas. We are a weaker and a more dependent people when we are poorer.
The Chamber of Commerce and Soros’ people are behind outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan and about two dozen Republican quislings in the House working with the openly anti-American caucus in the House (the Democrats) to put forward a bill that would legalize millions of illegals, continue diversity immigration from the world’s shitholes, continue chain migrations with grifting relatives of grifting immigrants, not mandate employers to use the “E-Verify” system to check on the illegal status of employees, and refuse to authorize the building of a border wall.
Likewise, the Chamber of Commerce is behind the move by some senators to try to limit President Trump from imposing tariffs on foreigners. According to The Hill (6/7/2018), Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) are supporting the bill. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), another persistent Trump foe, is behind this too.
Ohio governor John Kasich, who takes money from Soros and the Chamber of Commerce, also supports the globalists against a president who is sticking up for blue collar and lower white collar America.
Donald Trump, who forgot more about winning in business deals than everyone named above will ever know, wants the tariffs equal. He knows the other countries need access to our markets much more than we need access to theirs. China can’t eat cheap toys when they import food, lumber, and minerals …. and when they have to steal our industrial secrets to manufacture sophisticated products. The Euros likewise import food and energy.
President Trump left the G7 excrementfest early to take care of business with North Korea, so he missed the environmental fascism the Euros and the Canadians talk. Trump also was deliberately late to a gender equality breakfast and workshop led by Canadian leader Frou Frou Trudeau. Trudy, France’s Macron, Britain’s mannish Theresa May, and Germany’s ex-Communist female camp guard bitch Angela Merkel were not happy. Some Eurofeminist official, when Trump sat down next to her at breakfast, gave him a look that some interpreted as indignation, and others interpreted as a look like Miss Jane Hathaway used to give Beverly Hillbillies character Jethro Bodine …. a hormonal whirlpool look before she remembered she had to be dignified and wasn’t supposed to lust after males.
President Trump also let them know to their faces we will not be the world’s piggy bank any more. Trump is loud, rude, and truthful in a painfully honest way, like my Dad was, God rest his great soul.
In terms of being a builder who got jobs done on time and under budget, all while butting heads with politicians, union officials, building inspectors, and others, many who wanted bribes, Trump rose to the top of the hardest market in America to win in – New York.
In other words, Trump’s wins in a city that never stops thieving proves he is capable enough to take the politicians and their corporate bosses in this country and in other countries.
Our founding fathers wanted the leaders of America to come from its smartest wealthy people – those who could take a pay cut for a while in government so they could use their experience gained over a lifetime of achievement in running the country. Men with Donald Trump’s game and dedication to the welfare of America’s people are who the Founding Fathers wanted to run the United States for the benefit of America’s people.
Painfully honest is also the underpinning of the final topic of today – individual responsibility, which is related to protection against wrongdoers and using authority properly.
Today 99 and I attended Mass, and the first reading was about God confronting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
The Gospel was of Christ telling the leaders of the Hebrew people He was God and not satanic. Our Lord said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” This line was so obvious and powerful that unionists Sam Houston and Abraham Lincoln both quoted Christ in trying to keep the Union together.
The priest gave the most powerful sermon I have ever heard. This priest, in a voice like a tough Maine father or a Boston cop reading you your rights as he arrests you, said the following:
Evil exists, and Satan and evil spirits exist. Satan and evil spirits do tremendous damage, but they are powerless unless we consent to do evil and harm ourselves and others. We have the nature and the desire to do evil, but with self-control and God’s help we can overcome the desire to do evil.
Christ is about to rip Satan’s arm off and beat him senseless with it.
The recent school shootings are a result of a lack of God in the lives of people, in the lives of those students and teachers who mistreat others, and in the lives of those who shoot out of meanness or out of the desire for revenge.
God will stay out of our lives if we expel Him …. but our lives won’t go too well if we lack His guidance and grace.
Evil runs from God if we seek Him, and seek to do His will.
Satan’s first great lie is to convince us that it is okay to do wrong. Satan’s second great lie is to convince us God will not forgive us of our sins.
Satan and evil spirits are like execrable reptiles. (You can not cut a reptile into too many pieces, I say.) The Blessed Virgin Mary and all of us as descendants of Adam and Eve have the power to strike at the head of evil and deliver mortal blows to evil if we trust in God and obey Him. One of his favorite possessions is a statue of Mary stomping on Satan’s head.
Mary’s foot on Serpent’s neck. St. Sebastian Catholic Church, Chickasaw, Oklahoma. All real mothers who serve God do what they think they need to do to protect their children. Courtesy of Russ Martin the “Steeple Chaser.”
This priest is not the most eloquent of preachers. But his harsh directness and sincerity were something people needed to hear. 99 and I watched as people came out of church after Mass to thank him for that message. 99 and I told him it was the best sermon we ever heard, and I gave him extra money. I knew I would be using his lesson for us soon.
Let’s look at the concept of forgiveness.
Satan entered Judas’ heart, which led him to betray Christ. Judas’ conscience finally caught up to his intellect on Good Friday morning, when he told the leaders of the Hebrew people he did wrong to sell out Christ, who was innocent. When they blew him off, he threw down the blood money he got and in a rush of overwhelming despair he committed suicide. Judas despaired, because he listened to Satan, not Christ. Judas, in his guilt and despair, never considered God could forgive him.
(Sadly, many shattered victims and sad people go off the deep end and some kill themselves. Our Lord, who knows all, is alone able to judge their actions.)
Peter, who openly denied Christ and ran off weeping in shame over his cowardice, at least did not despair. He repented. And Christ, after chiding him a little for his weakness, forgave Peter and strengthened him.
So did the Holy Spirit, on Pentecost. John, who despite his fear, didn’t run, Peter, and the other apostles who ran away received the strength they would need to spread the Gospel. Peter and the others lived their lives from that point forward in courage and in the good graces of God. He had forgiven all of them.
Of course, all of them except John would one day dies as martyrs. But then they already knew from bitter experience their previous cowardice in fleeing from Christ or denying Christ is a place so low that death is preferable to it.
Back to the priest. It was not the eloquence of his words, but his harsh directness and his sincerity that made them effective. We need to be sincere and direct, and we need to listen to others who are sincere and direct – like God and His angels and those He sends to minister to us – when they come into our lives.
SHERLOCK JUSTICE
WE CAN SHOW YOU HOW TO BE YOUR OWN DETECTIVE.
