Halloween

I prefer Samhain (pronounced SOW-when (sow - female pig; same as how))

As Mostly Cajun says:

A very dimmocrat holiday – you act like something you’re not and get free stuff.

Quite the costume:

And of course, a new tranche of Hunter Biden laptop data were released today - from the London Daily Mail:

National security nightmare of Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop containing phone numbers for the Clintons, Secret Service officers and most of the Obama cabinet plus his sex and drug addictions - all secured by the password Hunter02

• • Businessman and self-confessed drug addict took the laptop to a back-street IT store in Delaware in 2019
  • Scale and sensitivity of its contents – easily accessible to a hacker – is only revealed for first time today
  • Included Joe Biden's personal mobile number and numbers for former President Bill Clinton and wife Hillary
  • Were also personal documents including Hunter's passport, driver's licence, social security and credit cards
  • Laptop also showed he spent $21,000 on one 'live cam' porn website. Were also sex act 'selfies' of him

The son of the man expected by many to be America's next President abandoned a laptop containing a treasure trove of top-secret material, including his father's private emails and mobile phone numbers, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

In an astonishing lapse, Hunter Biden chose to protect his MacBook Pro computer – crammed with what an IT expert last night described as a 'national security nightmare' and 'classic blackmail material' – with a single, simple password: Hunter02.

Remarkably, the 50-year-old businessman and self-confessed drug addict took the machine to a back-street IT store in Delaware in April 2019 to get it repaired – yet never returned to collect it.

Its existence was revealed by the New York Post last month, but the staggering scale and sensitivity of its contents – easily accessible to a hacker with a modicum of skill – is only revealed for the first time today.

The material, none of which was encrypted or protected by anything as basic as two-factor authentication, includes:

Needless to say, there is a lot more at the site.  Photos, phone numbers, credit card information, a major security risk for a lot of highly placed people.

The Daily Mail also reiterates what I have been seeing:

...neither Hunter nor his father have questioned that the laptop was left at the Delaware store nor the authenticity of material from it that has so far appeared in the media.

If this was fake, they would deny it.  If this was fake and could be traced to the Republican Party, they would be justified in launching such a major defamation suit as to shut down the Trump candidacy and possibly the Trump administration.

The Biden response so far? Crickets.

Lastly, I stumbled onto an image so scary, I thought about posting it but will not.  Too many tender hearts out there.  This was really scary. It was a formal portrait of Joseph Biden, seated in front of an American Flag with the caption (brace yourselves): President Joseph R. Biden

Now that gives me a case of the blue-blind paralytic willies.  Sends shivers up my spine.