The Grey Gull Sanitarium - Part One

   It was a Friday night, just like any other night. Dark, windy, with a light fine mist making everything damp. Nothing unusual for the city of Lochgilphead, Scotland.
   The town sits along the shores of Loch Gilp which leads directly to the Atlantic Ocean. I don't know why they call it a loch since it is more of a bay than a lake.
   Well, that night, Bryce and I were watching a video on a streaming site where these five Americans find abandoned buildings and they search these premises for ghosts or anything else spooky they can find.
   After drinking a couple of the finest ales that we could afford, I suggested that we go explore the old Grey Gull Sanitarium. It is strictly off limits, with barbed wire topping the fence that circles the place and large signs everywhere reading; Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted.
   But that never stopped Bryce and I before.
   When we were youngins, still in school anyways, anytime a petty theft happened, joyride of an unlocked car, or just poorly sprayed graffiti showed up, the Constable always came knocking at our houses first. Much to the chagrin of our parents.
   "Everybody knows everybody in small towns," the Chief Constable would say every time, while smiling at the both of us. "We get to know the character of certain individuals mighty quick around here."
   But now that we are older, we have moved past that sort of thing. Sort of.
   Tonight we were both feeling a little frisky after the 12 pack of ale and neither one of us had to work in the morning. The perfect combination for a little mischief.
  I don't know why we have never ventured into the old Grey Gull before, but Bryce didn't hesitate for a second once I mentioned it to him.
   We have both seen the Bobbies on occasion patrolling past the sanitarium at night. Shining their big spot lights from their patrol cars towards the building, searching the grounds and illuminating the windows to see if anyone is inside. I figured some rich guy owned the building and asked the local police to check in on it once in a while so the likes of Bryce and I wouldn't vandalize the place.
   I went inside my room and came out with a bolt cutter. Bryce asked me, "What is that for?" I said, "To cut through the fence so we don't have to climb over the barbed wire." He replied smiling, "I have been casing the place for some time now. I know of a tree in the back of the place where it splits the fence in two. We can get in and out without anyone the wiser."
   We grabbed a couple of torches, some gloves, hoodies, and made our way to the Grey Gull Sanitarium on foot.
   Not a local, tourist, or cabbie driving a hackney carriage was in sight that perfect night, as we made our way in the mist.
   We agreed beforehand that this was an exploratory mission, to find ghosts. Not to vandalize the place or steel anything. Unless it was valuable.

End Of Part One

This is,

I Cannot Wait To See What Happens Next

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

 “Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprise. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!”
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Space Walk

This is,

At Least Trump Hasn't Messed With Space

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
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Crooks Hijack “Black Lives Matter” To Spread Zombie Malware

I have nothing to do with this story

and all rights are the property of

Naked Security

 for

Sophos

by

Paul Ducklin

These crooks aren’t piling on any pressure; they aren’t playing on emotions such as guilt or fear; and they aren’t even requiring you to get involved under your own name. If you get one of these, don’t open the attachment – it’s a trap! We opened it so you don’t have to, and we must grudgingly admit that the trick the crooks have used here is easy to fall for. Remember that Word documents can contain what are commonly known as macros – embedded program code written in the Visual Basic for Applications programming language, or VBA for short. The problem with macros is that the term sounds safe and innocent – the word harks back to the days of really simple keystroke recorders that you could use to automate simple tasks in word processors or spreadsheets. But VBA today is as powerful and as dangerous as C, C++, Delphi, Perl, Python or any other programming language that’s associated with full-blown, standalone applications that you install and run locally. VBA needs an Office application running (usually Word, Excel or PowerPoint) to make it work, but once you agree to let VBA code run from inside an Office file, it has full access to your computer just as if the VBA program were running outside Office. In other words, VBA inside a Word file isn’t like JavaScript in your browser – there’s no sandbox or walled garden to restrict the damage it can do.

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  Give YOUR Feedback anonymous about "Black Lives Matter"
  Leave a review nameless about "Black Lives Matter"
  Speak out confidentially about "Whose Lives Matter"
  Tell your government your opinion nameless about "Whose Lives Matter"
  Vote anonymous about "Black Lives Matter"

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  Speak out confidentially about "Whose Lives Matter"
  Tell your government your opinion anonymous about "Black Lives Matter"
  Vote anonymous about "Black Lives Matter"

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Letting You Know So You Can Stay Safe

Jim Hauenstein

And,

“Every conceivable layer of the election process is completely riddled with vulnerabilities, so yes, hacking elections is easy!”
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If This Doesn't Bring A Tear To Your Eyes

If you are from the

United States of America

you have heard about

Lobbyists.

You know,

those dirty rotten scoundrels who throw around money to politicians like it is candy.

They do this to get laws passed in favor of their clients.

Like

Gun Lobbyists

who say it is a

Constitutional Right

to own

Assault Weapons

and

Unconstitutional

to require gun owners to get a license to own a gun!

Gun lobbyists spent over

10 Million Dollars

in

2019

alone for their clients

and that isn't even their high water mark year because

President Dump

is on their side.

Well,

let's put that aside because that is another debate for another day.

Get this,

there are

Good Lobbyists

in

Washington D.C.

That's right,

you heard me correctly.

One such organization is called

Little Lobbyists.

This is right from the front page of their website.

Our Mission

Little Lobbyists seek to protect and expand the rights of children who have complex medical needs and disabilities through advocacy, education, and outreach.

Our Vision

That all children with complex medical needs and disabilities will have access to the health care, education, and community inclusion they need to survive and thrive.

Our Advocacy

We are families of children with complex medical needs and disabilities, who've learned through experience to be strong and effective advocates.

If

President Trump

and

Mitch McConnell

have their way,

these will be the next victims of these heartless people when they finally get rid of the rest of

Obama Care.

Healthcare is big business

and to these guys,

nobody is more important then rich people making more money!

If you can,
please
Shop 
or
Donate 
for this wonderful cause.
Thank you.

This is,

Still Believe In The Goodness Of Most People,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

 “In these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.”
- Suzy Kassem -

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You have Heard It All Before, Is Covid-19 Part Of A Conspiracy?

Everyone out there in the world,

I want to start my own

Conspiracy!

Over the last decade

or two I have been noticing a popular trend in books,

television shows,

and in the movies.

The extermination of half the planet's population.

It could be from a virus,

ah oh,

from nuclear war,

zombies,

or even from aliens.

Some of the most famous 

Billionaires

in

America

like to get together to figure out how to limit population growth.

Well,

I need someone to blame for my conspiracy,

so I am going to blame the

Republicans.

Millions of people have lost their

Health Insurance

since the pandemic started.

President Trump

wants to open schools this fall against the recommendations of

Dr. Fauci

and the

CDC

or these institutions will lose their federal funding.

Who are the most likely candidates to be forced to have their children attend schools when they open?

The poor.

First the poor lose their health insurance

and now they are forced to send their kids to school where,

if anyone who has ever had children before knows,

where germs

and viruses spread like butter on bread between children.

So how do you reduce the population worldwide?

Not by killing off the rich

and famous.

By getting rid of your

Poor,

Handicap,

Mentally Ill,

and

Drug Addicts.
People who put a financial strain on their government.

It would not be the first time in history that this has happened.

Everyone from

Vlad the Impaler

to

Rodrigo Duterte 

the currant president of the

Philippines

have killed people who they considered expendable.

 You can find this behavior throughout history

and I am sure any new tyrant who tries taking over a country will implore this same strategy.
Even in a
Democracy!

This is,

Waiting For The Hate Mail To Begin,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Indeed, to this day, I think if you blame everything on the government, you're not just wrong, you're being reckless. It's as silly as blaming everything on the Freemasons, or the Illuminati, or insert-bad-guy-here. But I do believe that someone must ask the hard questions, especially of our elected officials as well as powerful men who become members of so-called secret societies. Remember: Governments don't lie. People lie. And if you want the real story, you need to find out more about those people.”
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