Scott Walker Doesn’t Mince Words When Responding to ‘Unbelievable’ Jab From Obama on Iran | Video | TheBlaze.com

Scott Walker Doesn’t Mince Words When Responding to ‘Unbelievable’ Jab From Obama on Iran | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Walker, who is widely expected to make a run for the White House in 2016, did not mince words when responding during a Fox News appearance.

“It’s unbelievable,” Walker said. “This is a president who should spend more time trying to work with governors and Congress instead of attacking them. But it’s not the first time … "

If you like your internet bill, you can keep your internet bill...... NOT!!---FCC's net neutrality rules open door to new fee on Internet service

FCC's net neutrality rules open door to new fee on Internet service - LA Times: "
Recently adopted net neutrality regulations soon could make your monthly Internet bill more complicated — and potentially more expensive.
Every month, consumers pay a small fee on their phone bills for a federal program that uses the money — a total of $8.8 billion raised nationwide last year — to provide affordable access to telecommunications services in rural areas, underserved inner cities and schools.
Now the fee could start appearing on broadband bills too, in a major expansion of the nearly two-decade-old Universal Service Fund program.
..."The federal government is sure to tap this new revenue stream soon to spend more of consumers' hard-earned dollars," warned Ajit Pai, a Republican on the FCC.
"So when it comes to broadband, read my lips: More new taxes are coming. It's just a matter of when."

Rand Paul Takes Action to Get ‘Misleading, Inaccurate and False’ Iran Ad Off the Air | TheBlaze.com

Rand Paul Takes Action to Get ‘Misleading, Inaccurate and False’ Iran Ad Off the Air | TheBlaze.com:

"The Rand Paul campaign sent a cease-and-desist letter this week to television stations broadcasting an ad that attacks him on Iran.

“I write to bring to your attention a deliberately misleading advertisement than an outside group calling itself the ‘Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America’ (‘FSPA’) is running on your broadcast station,” a lawyer for the campaign wrote."

Beware!!---Lost in the clouds: 7 examples of compromised personal information

Lost in the clouds: 7 examples of compromised personal information | CSO Online
Google has indexed thousands of backup drives

Each day millions of people across the globe create backups of their files. These backups are supposed to offer a measure of assurance that their files are safe, but that's not entirely true.

In fact, depending on how you've configured the device, your backups are freely available online to anyone who knows what they're looking for.

The following slides contain a few examples of the sensitive information people have stored on a backup drive that was later indexed by Google.

Unfortunately, most don't realize their data is available to the public, potentially offering themselves up as victims of identity theft or similar fraud.

Google isn't to blame either, as all of the backup files archived by the search giant are on networks or devices that were configured to act as public archives of data. But again, most people don't know this is happening.

8 Unbelievable College Application Stories

8 Unbelievable College Application Stories - ODDEE:
"1 The man who faked his race to get into medical school
Sitcom actress Mindy Kaling's big brother, Vijay Chokal-Ingam, is claiming that he hatched a twisted scheme in the late 1990s by posing as a black man to get into medical school.
...says that in 1998, he realized he didn't have a good enough GPA or MCAT score to get into medical school.
His GPA was 3.1, and his MCAT score was 31, which ranks in the 80-85 percentile for the test.
"So, I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man."
He apparently even joined the Organization of Black Students and went by his "embarrassing middle name," he says.
"Vijay the Indian-American frat boy become Jojo the African American Affirmative Action applicant to medical school."
Before long, Chokal-Ingam says he was interviewing at Harvard and Columbia, and found himself on wait lists at the University of Pennsylvania, Washington University and Mt. Sinai – despite his relatively mediocre 3.1 GPA and his family's considerable wealth.
A Saint Louis University spokeswoman disputed the account, saying that race never played a role in Chokal-Ingam's admission...
Chokal-Ingam wound up dropping out of St. Louis University Medical School two years after he got in under false pretenses..."

When's our government gonna step in and fix this costly behaviour?!!----Obesity in middle age increases risk of dementia

Obesity in middle age increases risk of dementia | Science | The Guardian:
"People who are obese in middle age are at almost four times greater risk of developing dementias such as Alzheimer's disease in later life than people of normal weight, according to a study released today.
...But for obese people, classified as those having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above, the risk soared.
People with midlife obesity had an almost four times (300%) higher risk of dementia.
"Currently, 1.6 billion adults are overweight or obese worldwide and over 50% of adults in the US and Europe fit into this category," said Weili Xu of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, who led the research.
"Our results contribute to the growing evidence that controlling body weight or losing weight in middle age could reduce your risk of dementia.""

‘The Math Is Scary’: Mike Rowe’s Unsettling Prediction on What Will Happen If Work Remains the ‘Enemy’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘The Math Is Scary’: Mike Rowe’s Unsettling Prediction on What Will Happen If Work Remains the ‘Enemy’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"What will happen when all of the baby boomers in the U.S. retire at age 65 and the “remarkable” advances in medicine keep many of them alive into their 90s or even into triple digits?

It’s a recipe for disaster and the “math is scary,” says Mike Rowe, the star of the CNN original series “Somebody’s Gotta Do It.”

What could possibly go wrong?-----Arab-American Civil Rights Course at U-M Dearborn Will Be First in Nation

Arab-American Civil Rights Course at U-M Dearborn Will Be First in Nation –  Deadline Detroit: "Beginning this fall, attorney Fatina Abdrabboh, director of the the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), will teach a course at the University of Michigan-Dearborn titled Arab-American Civil Rights.
It's the first of its kind nationally, Samer Hijazi of the Arab American News reports.
Abdrabboh will incorporate lessons from her work as a civil rights leader to help students understand about local, regional, and national civil rights and the evolution of the role of Arab Americans in U.S. in the last century.
“With the rich culture of Dearborn, which is home to a large population of Arabs outside of the Arab world, this course will not only offer insight into the state of civil rights but also empower students by providing them with exposure to the forces that drive anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism in this country,” Abdrabboh tells the paper.  "

"Business" as usual with democrat government----Santa Fe Can’t Account for $30 Million

Santa Fe Can’t Account for $30 Million:
"SANTA FE, N.M. — A $30.3 million park improvement bond approved by voters in 2008 was spent with so little oversight that Bette Booth, chairwoman of the Parks and Open Spaces Advisory Commission, called the city’s bond account “a slush fund” at a meeting of the city’s audit committee April 1.
City finance director Oscar Rodriguez told the committee “the expense account was a temporary account where they would charge things and sort them out later.”
REDW, the Albuquerque accounting firm hired to examine the project, couldn’t perform a complete audit because of how poorly the records were kept.
“We really have no idea if there was fraud or embezzlement,” Booth said in an interview after the meeting.
“We don’t know how many millions of feet of pipe came in and where it went.
My feeling is a lot of stuff walked away, especially now that we know there were absolutely no controls.”
“We didn’t find any evidence that money was stolen or just spent on random non-park things,” REDW principal Steve Cogan told the audit committee.
There’s no clear proof that money wasn’t stolen either, due to the sloppy records.
“It appears we broke a lot of rules and regulations but didn’t break any laws — but we don’t know,” Rodriguez acknowledged."

College wimp administrator sees the evil on campus! These monsters!!!-----Frat suspended for making pledges act as designated drivers, dye their chests

Frat suspended for making pledges act as designated drivers, dye their chests
The University of Louisville has come up with a novel rationale for suspending its Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter, WAVE 3 News reports:
Photos on the chapter’s website and Facebook page show TKE pledges and/or actives shirtless, their torsos dyed Cardinal Red, bearing the fraternity’s Greek letters. 
They appear to be cheering at a pep rally or a ball game.
“They also were required to serve as ‘designated drivers’ if the brothers were drinking, and to carry red binders—essentially a pledge manual,” [Dean of Students Michael] Mardis said.
But the Code of Conduct may forbid such rites of passage.
It defines hazing as actions that could “recklessly or intentionally endanger physical or mental health,” or anything that involves “dangerous, demeaning, or ridiculing activities.”
“There was this environment, this expectation that you’re required to do these things,” Mardis said. “And if you don’t do those things you might not be able to become a member.”

Total Frat Move has a hilariously profane take on this:
"I should’ve slapped a NSFW tag on this article. The allegations are truly fucking horrifying.
Requiring pledges to keep drunk drivers off of the road?!
Carrying a pledge manual?!
Shut these motherfuckers down. …
They couldn’t even find evidence that they made a pledge drink a beer?
Hell, maybe they were forced to wear certain clothes to class.
Those dipshits at the university don’t even have that to level against the fraternity. …
If this is the road we’re heading down, it’s about to be a scary time for Greeks.
And that’s probably the point.
At least “Mardis concedes many people might not consider the allegations ‘hazing.’” Read the story and TFM’s response.

Military Revives Almost-Abandoned Mountain Base to Protect Against New-Era Threat

Military Revives Almost-Abandoned Mountain Base to Protect Against New-Era Threat | TheBlaze.com:
"The Cold War-Era bunker in Colorado Springs that was designed to protect the U.S. military’s command in the event of a nuclear bomb is getting a new purpose after many of the operations once inside Cheyenne Mountain have been moved over the years.

The Cheyenne Mountain Complex originally housed the control room for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which later moved to Peterson Air Force Base not far away. But last week, William Gortney, commander of U.S. Northern Command and NORAD, said at a briefing that some military communications equipment was moving into the mountain."

Obama gun control push backfires as U.S. firearms industry sees unprecedented surge

Obama gun control push backfires as U.S. firearms industry sees unprecedented surge - Washington Times:
"The American firearms industry is as healthy as ever, seeing an unprecedented surge that has sent production of guns soaring to more than 10.8 million manufactured in 2013 alone — double the total of just three years earlier.
The 2013 surge — the latest for which the government has figures — came in the first full year after the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, signaling that the push for stricter gun controls, strongly backed by President Obama, did little to chill the industry despite the passage of stricter laws in states such as New York, Maryland, Connecticut and California.
Indeed, interest in guns appears to be at an all-time high in California, which shattered its previous record for gun-purchase background checks last month, with nearly 200,000 processed, suggesting a vibrant firearms market in the country’s largest state..."

History for April 10

History for April 10 - On-This-Day.com
Commodore Matthew Perry 1794, Lew Wallace 1827 - U.S. novelist ("Ben Hur"), William Booth 1829 - Founder of Salvation Army, author ("In Darkets England") 


Joseph Pulitzer 1847 - Publisher, his will left $2 million for a fund which established annual prizes for literature, drama, music and journalism, Harry Morgan 1915 - Actor ("M*A*S*H"), Steven Seagal 1951 - Actor ("Out for Justice") 


1790 - The U.S. patent system was established. 

1849 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. He sold the rights for $100. 


1912 - The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England. 


1925 - F. Scott Fitzgerald published "The Great Gatsby" for the first time. 


1932 - Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany with 19 million votes. Adolf Hitler came in second with 13 million votes. 






1963 - 129 people died when the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher failed to surface off Cape Cod, MA. 



1971 - The American table tennis team arrived in China. They were the first group of Americans officially allowed into China since the founding of the People Republic in 1949. The team had recieved the surprise invitation while in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship. 


1992 - Outside Needles, CA, comedian Sam Kinison was killed when a pickup truck slammed into his car on a desert road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. 


1996 - U.S. President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique used to end pregnancies in their late stages. 


2002 - Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before the U.S. Senate as a representative of the Israeli government. He warned that suicide bombers would spread to the U.S. if Israel was not allowed to finish its military offensive in the West Bank. Netanyaho also cited the goals of dismantling the terror regime and expelling Arafat from the region, ridding the Palestinian territories of terrorist weapons and establishing "physical barriers" to protect Israelis from future Palestinian attacks.
 

Mexican Officials Find Secret Passageway They Believe Was Being Constructed to Smuggle Illegal Immigrants Into the U.S. – and Wait Until You See Where They Found It | Video | TheBlaze.com

Mexican Officials Find Secret Passageway They Believe Was Being Constructed to Smuggle Illegal Immigrants Into the U.S. – and Wait Until You See Where They Found It | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Mexican soldiers have discovered the start of a secret underground tunnel they believe was being built as a passageway into the U.S. But it isn’t just any tunnel: This one begins in a closet inside a house near Tijuana, Mexico, where a ladder dives 66 feet underground into the passageway that spans 500 feet in length."

Major University Cancels ‘American Sniper’ Screening After Students Call It ‘Anti-Muslim’…but a ‘Fun, Engaging’ Replacement Is Ready to Roll | TheBlaze.com

Major University Cancels ‘American Sniper’ Screening After Students Call It ‘Anti-Muslim’…but a ‘Fun, Engaging’ Replacement Is Ready to Roll | TheBlaze.com:

"An online letter circulated around campus said the Academy Award-winning movie about Navy SEAL Chris Kyle “not only tolerates but promotes anti-Muslim … rhetoric and sympathizes with a mass killer.” It also called Kyle a “racist who took a disturbing stance on murdering Iraqi civilians. Middle Eastern characters in the film are not lent an ounce of humanity … ”

The letter was signed by “self-identified Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) and/or Muslim students.” (Not all those who signed the letter are shown in previous link.) They said “watching this movie is provocative and unsafe to” them."

Did they actually watch it?  Maybe they need to see the part where a  driver is put through the head of a child.  We are allowing the enemy to dictate or thoughts and actions.  They have already taken over the thought process of the next generation of Americans.  

War is hell, but hell will be our reality if we don't STOP this politically correct insanity!

Higher education at its best!

The Dry Math of Scarcity

The Dry Math of Scarcity:
"There are two possible ways to allocate water in California:
The people in Sacramento, Governor Brown prominent among them, can pick and choose who gets what, with all of the political shenanigans, cronyism, inefficiency, and corruption that brings. 
Or Californians can get their water the same way they get most everything else they need and value: by buying it on the open market.
This is an excellent opportunity to apply the cap-and-trade model that many progressives favor when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions, with an important difference:
This deals with real, physical scarcity, not artificial scarcity created by regulation.
(Incidentally, it here bears repeating that notwithstanding the inaccurate proclamations of Governor Brown and President Obama, California’s drought almost certainly is not the result of global warming; the climate models supporting the scientific consensus on global warming predict wetter winters for California, not the drier winters that have produced the current crisis. California’s climate is complex, but a great deal of it is dominated by desert and arid to semi-arid Mediterranean conditions.)
...As the economist Alex Tabarrok puts it: “California has plenty of water — just not enough to satisfy every possible use of water that people can imagine when the price is close to zero...” 

White House Says Biden Is Qualified to Speak on Iraq and the Islamic State Instead of Obama | TheBlaze.com

White House Says Biden Is Qualified to Speak on Iraq and the Islamic State Instead of Obama | TheBlaze.com:

"The White House says Vice President Joe Biden is highly qualified to speak on Iraq policy and combating the Islamic State, which he’ll do in an address Thursday instead of President Barack Obama.

“The president on a number of occasions has spoken about this issue,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told TheBlaze Wednesday. “Obviously the vice president has a lot of expertise on this issue. Early on in this administration, he was responsible essentially for working closely with the Iraqis when the president began the draw down of U.S. military personal from Iraq.”

DNA testing for dog poop on the rise in Seattle area

DNA testing for dog poop on the rise in Seattle area - seattlepi.com
SEATTLE (AP) — Frustrated with dog owners who refuse to clean up after their pets, an increasing number of apartments in Seattle are opting to use DNA testing to identify the culprits.
The Seattle Times reports (http://bit.ly/1HxGgb2 ) that a company called BioPet Vet Lab from Knoxville, Tennessee, is providing its PooPrints testing kits to 26 apartment and condo complexes and homeowners associations in the region.
Erin Atkinson, property manager at Potala Village Apartments in Everett says the messes are all over.
"There was poop inside the elevators, in the carpeted hallways, up on the roof," Atkinson said. "They're lazy, I guess."

After University Canceled ‘American Sniper’ Showing, Football Coach Harbaugh Made This Announcement

After University Canceled ‘American Sniper’ Showing, Football Coach Harbaugh Made This Announcement | TheBlaze.com
University of Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh announced on Twitter Wednesday night that his team will hold a screening of “American Sniper” after the school pulled a showing when some students called it “anti-Muslim.”

“Michigan Football will watch ‘American Sniper’! Proud of Chris Kyle & Proud to be an American & if that offends anybody then so be it!” the coach tweeted to his nearly quarter-of-a-million followers.

9-Year-Old Girl Tells Her School Board Exactly What She Thinks of Florida’s Standardized Testing, and It’s Pretty Brutal | Video | TheBlaze.com

9-Year-Old Girl Tells Her School Board Exactly What She Thinks of Florida’s Standardized Testing, and It’s Pretty Brutal | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Florida’s testing regime isn’t Common Core — Florida ditched the standards last year — though the Washington Post noted that Florida’s replacement testing standards are “remarkably similar” to Common Core.

Noting that the tests come wrapped in a weird veil of secrecy — students are asked to sign a form saying they won’t discuss the test with their parents, and grades are only delivered after the end of the school year — Sydney told the school board, “I have the right to talk to my parents about any and everything related to school and my education.”

Michigan Plummets in Economic Outlook Rankings Among States

Michigan Plummets in Economic Outlook Rankings Among States [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"There is troubling news for Michigan’s economy, according to the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual “Rich States, Poor States” state competitiveness index.
The index ranks states on both economic performance in the past and the outlook for the future.
In the 2015 index Michigan experienced the worst decline of any state on economic outlook, dropping 12 places to No. 24. 
The index is based on 15 state policy variables found to be important indicators of where a state is heading economically.
The factors include eight measures of taxation plus measures of state debt, government employment, minimum wage mandates and right-to-work status.
The economic performance ranking, meanwhile, incorporates state domestic product, domestic migration, and nonfarm payroll employment changes from 2004 through 2013.
Michigan’s overall rank in this category is 50th among the states, the same as the previous year. "

"Christian Pride Night" not on the schedule----A First: Tigers to Host LGBT Pride Night at Comerica Park

A First: Tigers to Host LGBT Pride Night at Comerica Park  –  Deadline Detroit:

Nearly 6,000 Retired Illinois Teachers Made Six-Figure Pensions in 2014

Nearly 6,000 Retired Illinois Teachers Made Six-Figure Pensions in 2014 | Pension360:
"But in Illinois, the number of $100,000 pensions for public school teachers is rising rapidly.
Six-figure pensions for public school teachers and administrators are up over 60 percent from 2012, when 3,458 retired teachers received $100,000-plus pensions from the state, according to pension records obtained by Pension360.
These pensions were usually awarded to very long-term workers.
The average tenure of a six-figure pensioner was 35 years.
Thus, a teacher who joined the system at the age of 22 would be 57 years old before collecting a $100,000 annual check.
Illinois’ unfunded pension liabilities ballooned to an official $111 billion across all systems in 2014 – a 17 percent increase since 2012, according to the state’s Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.
The total liability is about $200 billion, nearly half of which is secured with the money held by Illinois pension funds."

Democrats: Get A $2,000 Tax Credit For Turning In Your Assault Rifles - Matt Vespa

Democrats: Get A $2,000 Tax Credit For Turning In Your Assault Rifles - Matt Vespa:

"Congressional Democrats have a grand scheme to make America’s streets safer; incentivize people cannibalize to their Second Amendment rights for tax credits. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) will introduce the Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our Streets Act, which will do just that (via the Hill):"