How many will be blackmailed?-----Cyber Commander: OPM Hack Highlights Data Theft Danger

Cyber Commander: OPM Hack Highlights Data Theft Danger | Washington Free Beacon
On Capitol Hill Wednesday, OPM Director Karen Archuleta revealed that as many as 18 million Social Security numbers contained in a database on federal security clearance holders appear to have been compromised.
She declined to comment when asked if the total number of federal workers who were victimized in the OPM hack could be as many as 32 million.
OPM’s official estimate of the total number is that 4.2 million current and former federal workers were victims of the cyber attacks that was discovered in April and appears to have been carried out since at least December.
So far, two OPM databases were breached, a central personal network and a separate security clearance database used to check the backgrounds of federal employees involved in classified work. That database involves millions of people who are questioned about security clearance renewals or new clearances.
...“Quite frankly just continually responding to individual incidents, I don’t think in the long run is going to get us to where we need to be,” Rogers said..."

Total crap survey!!!-----22.5 percent of female undergrads at U-M have been sexually assaulted, survey shows

22.5 percent of female undergrads at U-M have been sexually assaulted, survey shows | MLive.com
While an overwhelming majority of students reported feeling safe from sexual assault on the University of Michigan's campus, 22.5 percent of undergraduate women and 6.8 percent of undergraduate men reported having been victims of sexual assault in the past year, according to survey results released Wednesday by school officials.
The survey, issued to 3,000 students with a 67 percent response rate, defined sexual assault as any form of nonconsensual touching and kissing or oral, vaginal or anal penetration.
The findings mirrored a nationwide Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll of current and recent students, published June 12, which stated that 1 in 5 women say they were sexually assaulted while in college.
...A more in-depth breakdown of the student survey showed that 9.7 percent of all female students who responded said they experienced nonconsensual sexual penetration—oral, vaginal or anal—compared to 1.4 percent of male students.
In most of those instances, the nonconsensual penetration happened after verbal pressure, while under the influence of drugs or when the student was too drunk to stop the penetration from happening. Less than 1 percent of the students said that physical force was involved.
Verbal pressure was described in the survey as telling lies, threatening to end a relationship or spread rumors, showing displeasure, criticizing their sexuality or attractiveness or getting angry after being told no...

U.S. Army Considers Removing Portraits of 'Enemies' Like Gens Robert E. Lee, 'Stonewall' Jackson- Breitbart

U.S. Army Considers Removing Portraits of 'Enemies' Like Gens Robert E. Lee, 'Stonewall' Jackson - Breitbart:
"After receiving a complaint from “an unidentified official,” the U.S. Army War College is pondering whether to keep portraits of “enemies” like Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson hanging at the college.
According to the Washington Times, college spokesperson Carol Kerr said the complaining official was “struck by the fact that [the college] has quite a few Confederate images” and described Lee and Jackson as “enemies of the United States Army.”
The official said, “[Lee] was certainly not good for the nation.
This is the guy we faced on the battlefield whose whole purpose in life was to destroy the nation as it was then conceived.”
It should be noted that Lee was a graduate of West Point who was wounded fighting for the United States in the Mexican-American War and who “received several battlefield promotions” from the U.S. Army during that war.
In addition to this, anyone familiar with Lee’s writings can tell you he did not fight offensively against the United States during the Civil War.
Rather, he wrestled with how to respond to what he saw as a U.S. invasion of the southern states and decided his loyalties should lie with Virginia first and foremost..."

Data Proves that Slavery has Little to do with the Current Plight of African-Americans - Eagle Rising

Data Proves that Slavery has Little to do with the Current Plight of African-Americans - Eagle Rising:

"Williams goes on to discuss similar problems when analyzing modern black unemployment rates and low earnings.

I was amazed by all of the FACTUAL information provided by Williams, which can be easily proved with just a little research. The numbers are staggering and the connection between the problems in the black community and the welfare state are so far more compelling that it seems almost laughable that liberals continue to blame slavery for these issues. The truth is staring them in the face and still they choose to ignore it.

I think I may have been most impressed with this statement, though."

History for June 26

History for June 26 - On-This-Day.com
Pearl S. Buck 1892, William P. Lear 1902, Peter Lorre 1904 


Col. Tom Parker 1909, Eleanor Parker 1922, Greg LeMond 1961 


1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr. 


1917 - General John "Black Jack" Pershing arrived in France with the American Expeditionary Force. 


1927 - The Coney Island Cyclone roller coaster opened in New York. 


1936 - The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 made its first flight. It is often considered the first practical helicopter. 


1942 - The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter was flown for the first time. 


1948 - The Berlin Airlift began as the U.S., Britain and France started ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin. 


1963 - U.S. President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall. 


1976 - The CN (Canadian National) Tower in Toronto, Canada, opened. 


1985 - Wilbur Snapp was ejected after playing "Three Blind Mice" during a baseball game. The incident followed a call made by umpire Keith O'Connor. 


1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers are always potentially liable for supervisor's sexual misconduct toward an employee. 


2000 - Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid declared a state of emergency in the Moluccas due to the escalation of fighting between Christians and Muslims. 

The Top 15 Most Antonin Scalia Quotes From His New Obamacare Dissent | TheBlaze.com

The Top 15 Most Antonin Scalia Quotes From His New Obamacare Dissent | TheBlaze.com:

"Here are the top 15 quotes we pulled from his scathing rebuke of the Roberts court’s ruling that saved Obamacare’s federal exchanges. It is Scalia at his Scaliaiest (emphasis added):

No. 1: ‘SCOTUScare’

“We should start calling this law SCOTUScare.”

As Negotiation Deadline Looms, U.S. Reportedly Ready to Offer Iran High-Tech Reactors | TheBlaze.com

As Negotiation Deadline Looms, U.S. Reportedly Ready to Offer Iran High-Tech Reactors | TheBlaze.com:

“We don’t accept 10-year restriction. We have told the negotiating team how many specific years of restrictions are acceptable,” Khamenei said. “Research and development must continue during the years of restrictions.”

His office followed up Wednesday with a graphic listing the Iranian position, which included its previously stated demands that all sanctions must be lifted “on the same day deal is signed” and that no military sites will be open to international atomic inspectors."

The Democrats Gave us the Confederate Flag, But Don't Expect Them to Get Exposed as Hypocrites - The Rush Limbaugh Show

The Democrats Gave us the Confederate Flag, But Don't Expect Them to Get Exposed as Hypocrites - The Rush Limbaugh Show:

"I have yet to see any hypocrisy argument carry the day and discredit a Democrat. I mean, here the Democrat Party owns the Confederate flag. The Confederacy was Democrats. The ancestors, the heirs of the Confederacy were Democrats. The governors, the police chiefs, the segregationists were all Democrats. The Confederacy was Democrats, it was the Democrat Party.

Abraham Lincoln was the father of the Republican Party. It was the party of the North. Fritz Hollings, a Democrat governor, hoisted the Confederate flag in South Carolina. Everything to do with the Confederacy the Democrat Party owns lock, stock, and barrel. They gave it to us. Bill Clinton signed all kinds of proclamations. Hillary Clinton did proudly appear with caricatures and replicas of the Confederate flag, and people are finding these and they're posting them all over Twitter. It isn't gonna matter because nobody in the media where the low-information people go that confers authority is gonna give the Clintons any grief over it. Because it's not the target, it's not the reason."

Marijuana use impairs driving as much as alcohol in official study

Marijuana use impairs driving as much as alcohol in official study | Daily Mail Online

Official: Cannabis use impairs driving as much as alcohol says first of its kind study while drug's legality continues to spread

• A National Institute on Drug Abuse study tasked stoned participants with driving a highly sophisticated driving simulator
• Researchers found that after their blood levels of THC reached a certain point, the drivers weaved similarly to a driver with a BAC of .08
• The study also found that combining cannabis and alcohol decreased motor skills even more than just one or the other

If the Islamic State’s Global Ambitions Weren’t Clear Yet, Check Out What’s on the Back of Its New Gold Coin | TheBlaze.com

If the Islamic State’s Global Ambitions Weren’t Clear Yet, Check Out What’s on the Back of Its New Gold Coin | TheBlaze.com:

"Photos have emerged of gold coins allegedly minted by the Islamic State group in Syria, presumably to be put into circulation one day as the currency of its intended modern-day caliphate.

The currency, called the “Islamic dinar,” includes images revealing the global ambitions of the jihadist group: One coin shows a map of the world. Another is decorated with seven wheat stalks, a reference to the Koran."

Apple Pulls All Civil War Games From The App Store

Apple Pulls All Civil War Games From The App Store | Zero Hedge
...To an extent all of that was expected.
However, even we were stunned when we learned moments ago that none other than that ultimate "arbiter" on all things moral and ethical, Apple itself, entered the fray with a decision to remove all Civil War games from its App Store!
According to MacRumors, "Apple has removed seemingly all Civil War games from the App Store for displaying the Confederate Flag in "offensive and mean-spirited ways," our sister website TouchArcade has learned.
Apple has sent a removal letter to affected developers to inform them that their app does not comply with Section 19.1 of the App Store Review Guidelines."
"19.1 Apps containing references or commentary about a religious, cultural or ethnic group that are defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited or likely to expose the targeted group to harm or violence will be rejected."
MacRumors further adds that it did do a spot check of the App Store and can confirm that Apple has removed dozens of Civil War games depicting the Confederate Flag. Most educational or generic Civil War apps remain available on the App Store.
A sampling of the Civil War games removed from the App Store:
Ultimate General: Gettysburg
AAA American Civil War Cannon Shooter
Civil War: Hidden Mysteries
Civil War The Battle Game
Civil War Defense
Civil War Battle Defense
1861 A Civil War Rebellion
Civil War: 1862
Civil War: 1863

Black Panther Chairman: 'Complete' Charleston's Slave Rebellion's Plan to Kill All Slave Masters

Black Panther Chairman: 'Complete' Charleston's Slave Rebellion's Plan to Kill All Slave Masters
CHARLESTON, South Carolina — In an angry call to arms just a block away from the site of the Charleston massacre, former New Black Panther Party chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz told a group of about 200 African American Charlestonians that they need to “finish the mission” of killing “slave masters” and their families.
He made the incendiary comments at the Save the Black Church rally held Tuesday night in Marian Square, close to the Mother Emanuel AME Church, where white racist Dylann Roof allegedly murdered nine black churchgoers.
Shabazz, who played a prominent role in the Baltimore and Ferguson uprisings, heads a group called Black Lawyers for Justice and boasts a long association with the controversial New Black Panther Party.
Shabazz’s comments began with the story of Denmark Vesey, who planned an unsuccessful slave revolt and helped found the Mother Emanuel Church.
...The rebellion plan was to “seize Charleston’s arsenals and guard houses, kill the Governor, set fire to the city, and kill every white man they saw,” according to PBS.
Vesey and his conspirators planned the uprising for July 14, Bastille Day, but in early June some nervous slaves leaked the information to their owners.
Vesey was arrested before the plot could be carried out...
...In his speech, Malik Zulu Shabazz told the story of Vesey to the crowd and discussed Vesey’s scheme.
“Denmark Vesey had a plan to kill all the slave masters in the state,” Shabazz proclaimed. 
“Denmark Vesey had a plan to kill every last one of them and kill all of their goddamn families.”
Shabazz, whose remarks elicited applause, turned to current events, telling the audience: 
“We’re out of Denmark Veseys. 
And we need some new Demark Veseys today....”

BREAKING: Tens of Thousands Are "Liking" What Cooter from Dukes of Hazzard Just Said

BREAKING: Tens of Thousands Are "Liking" What Cooter from Dukes of Hazzard Just Said:

"In a post to his Facebook page, Ben “Cooter” Jones explained that the flag represented not racism and bigotry, but the “indomitable spirit of independence,” as well as the values of the rural South, including courage, family and good times.

“Our beloved symbol is now being attacked in a wave of political correctness that is unprecedented in our nation of free speech and free expression,” he wrote."

And Still More Environmental Epic Fail

And Still More Environmental Epic Fail | Power Line:
"...First, all those places like universities (natch) that are banning bottled water because there are too many plastic bottles in the waste stream? 

It isn’t working. 
(By the way, the bottled water craze was partly set off by environmentalists to begin with—from their unfounded warnings about “dangerous” U.S. tap water that isn’t dangerous at all. 
But hey—we gotta have something in those direct mail letters. . .) 
The American Journal of Public Health (it’s peer-reviewed!) has just published a study entitled “The Unintended Consequences of Changes in Beverage Options and the Removal of Bottled Water on a University Campus.” 
It’s behind a paywall, but the full abstract is available, and I haven’t had this good a HEH! moment since, well. . . since this morning:

1. We investigated how the removal of bottled water along with a minimum healthy beverage requirement affected the purchasing behavior, healthiness of beverage choices, and consumption of calories and added sugars of university campus consumers.
2. With shipment data as a proxy, we estimated bottled beverage consumption over 3 consecutive semesters: baseline (spring 2012), when a 30% healthy beverage ratio was enacted (fall 2012), and when bottled water was removed (spring 2013) at the University of Vermont. We assessed changes in number and type of beverages and per capita calories, total sugars, and added sugars shipped.
3. Per capita shipments of bottles, calories, sugars, and added sugars increased significantly when bottled water was removed. Shipments of healthy beverages declined significantly, whereas shipments of less healthy beverages increased significantly. As bottled water sales dropped to zero, sales of sugar-free beverages and sugar-sweetened beverages increased.
4. The bottled water ban did not reduce the number of bottles entering the waste stream from the university campus, the ultimate goal of the ban. With the removal of bottled water, consumers increased their consumption of less healthy bottled beverages.

So heh! 
Look do-gooders: if bottled water could survive Lewis Black (10 minute video, language warning) it will survive your stupid interventions.

But wait, there’s more!

You’ve heard we’re banning trans-fat in America? 
This comes as a relief: it means we’ve finally found a trans-something that liberals don’t approve of. For those of us who present as Hefto-Americans and self-identify as members of the trans-fat community, this seems like blatant bigotry. 
But guess what mom: banning trans-fat is bad for the environment, too! 
Time magazine reported last week:

The Surprising Link Between Trans-Fat and Deforestation

The Ban Will Likely Lead to an Increase in Palm Oil Cultivation...

Everybody gonna need a name change-----Debate over rebel flag widens to include all symbols of Confederacy

Debate over rebel flag widens to include all symbols of Confederacy | Fox News:
The debate over the rebel flag that began anew after last week's church shootings in Charleston, S.C., has morphed into a full-blown Confederate controversy.
While Stars and Bars have long been associated by many with slavery, the latest campaign to remove Confederate emblems has extended beyond the flag to statues, memorials, parks and even school mascots. 
Never has the debate over what symbolizes heritage and what stands for hate covered so much ground, as efforts to strip icons that have been part of the visual and cultural landscape of the South for decades are afoot at national, state and local levels.
In one Arkansas town, the school board voted unanimously Tuesday to ban the song "Dixie" for the next school year and phase out “Rebel,” the school’s mascot.
“It came to our attention that the public has been pretty upset about the Confederate flag, which has already been removed, the rebel mascot [and] the playing of the ‘Dixie,’” Fort Smith, Ark., school board member Susan McFerran told reporters after the board voted for the changes.

Supremes gone wild..... and unintelligible?

DRUDGE REPORT 2015®:
"'In this instance, the context and structure of the Act compel us to depart from what would otherwise be the most natural reading of the pertinent statutory phrase'... "

Scratching the Totalitarian Itch | Erick on the Radio

Scratching the Totalitarian Itch | Erick on the Radio:
"They came in to power and destroyed lives.
Relationships were ruined.
Historic monuments were destroyed.
History had to be rewritten.
The American left has, running through it, the same totalitarian streak that ran through the Communists, their kissing-cousins the Nazis, and the Islamic State.
The left, always in search of a utopia, decides to force utopia on the world. 
That requires their inner totalitarian.
Communists, when they took over Russia, China, Cuba, etc. etc. etc. tore down monuments, demanded allegiance to their state, drove out dissent, and rewrote history.
The Islamic State now destroys lives, ruins relationships, rewrites history, and tears down historic monuments as it remakes society into a Caliphate utopia.
The American left, thankfully, is not as violent as its intellectual cousins abroad … yet. 
But while Bush was President, dissent was patriotic.
Now, to criticize the President or the left is to be branded a racist, bigot, homophobe, and more. Dissent is no longer welcome in the town square.
The left celebrates the business that won’t bake a cake for a confederate, but demands bakers who won’t bake for gay weddings be fined by the state and driven from business.
The pizza place get death threats if they have stars and bars pinned to the ceiling or publicly admit they don’t want a rainbow flag on the ceiling.
Historic memorials to the Civil War must be torn down.
Historic names must be changed. St. Petersburg must become Leningrad.
Companies must be shamed into not selling the Confederate battle flag..."