‘My Volt caught fire’: ‘Things you might hear a liberal say’ hashtag trending

http://twitter.com/#!/CandiLissa/status/363338378957160448

The hashtag #ThingsYouMightHearALiberalSay has been trending high for quite a while:

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There are hundreds if not thousands of tweets under that hashtag now, but here are just a few #ThingsYouMightHearALiberalSay:

http://twitter.com/#!/LisainDallas/status/363395262116401153 http://twitter.com/#!/ZeroTheStoic/status/363396148414787585 http://twitter.com/#!/TheFreedomFan/status/363390403791175680 http://twitter.com/#!/YoungCons/status/363322605517807616 http://twitter.com/#!/TommyDHiggins/status/363390077725978626 http://twitter.com/#!/CandiLissa/status/363346329839222784 http://twitter.com/#!/NRO/status/363324705064751104

#ThingsYouMightHearALiberalSay

Down with the 1% & Down with Capitalism!

Oh & by the way I just downloaded the new Jay-Z song on my iPhone— Nat Shupe (@NatShupe) August 02, 2013

http://twitter.com/#!/burtdw1/status/363389426400886784 http://twitter.com/#!/hale_razor/status/363150285234905089 http://twitter.com/#!/CandiLissa/status/363152345649000450

We’ll close with a good, Twitter-based #ThingsYouMightHearALiberalSay from someone who knows:

http://twitter.com/#!/rsmccain/status/363360862502797312

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/08/02/my-volt-caught-fire-thingsyoumighthearaliberalsay-trending-high/

‘So true!’ Dana Perino: What ‘pass it to find out what’s in it’ really meant

http://twitter.com/#!/DanaPerino/status/382316658687479808

Sad-truth-bam! Yep. The unspoken end of “pass the bill to find out what’s in it” was “whatevs!” And as Twitchy reported Tuesday morning, the hits just keep coming. The lapdogs are running cover and calling this latest devastating effect a “glitch.”

http://twitter.com/#!/ExJon/status/382317268354359296

Glitch! Or whatever.

http://twitter.com/#!/cabinetmeeting/status/382318338812047360

It’s not funny, because it’s true.

Related:

Lapdogs run cover again: 500K kids to lose health insurance? Just a ‘glitch’ you guys! [pic]

‘HAHAHAHA!’ Lapdogs run cover, call devastating Obamacare effect a ‘quirk’ [pic]

‘Thanks to Obamacare’: Rep. Gardner opts out of federal health care, his insurance plan is canceled

Hey, know what you get to ‘keep’ with Obamacare? Cancellation notices

Health insurers to customers: If you like your plan, you can keep … nah, you’re screwed

Full Twitchy coverage of Dana Perino

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/09/24/so-true-dana-perino-explains-what-pass-it-to-find-out-whats-in-it-really-meant/

Nefarious, job-stealing ATMs at it again? Jonah Goldberg shreds Obama

http://twitter.com/#!/BecketAdams/status/379249470115831808

It’s funny, but devastating, because it’s true. Yep, evidently the maleficence of ATMs knows no bounds.

http://twitter.com/#!/OrwellForce/status/379242777202003968

Yes. Yes, he did. As Twitchy reported, President Obama was interviewed on ABC’s “This Week.” Not only did he make an outlandish claim in defense of his foreign policy, but he also said this:

http://twitter.com/#!/markknoller/status/379238427377405953

Uh, what?

http://twitter.com/#!/jamesbranch3/status/379241647973756928

Seriously.

NRO’s Jonah Goldberg smacked Obama as only he can:

http://twitter.com/#!/JonahNRO/status/379249374448353280 http://twitter.com/#!/JonahNRO/status/379249648621613056

Perfect.

http://twitter.com/#!/JonahNRO/status/379257806547091456

What skulduggery are those tellers performing? That can’t be!

http://twitter.com/#!/HokieMBA00/status/379258038458142721

Wielding their wizard wands of evil.

http://twitter.com/#!/TheRickWilson/status/379241733025828865

Why does Obama have to be such a technophobe? Hater!

Speaking of economic moron, Laura Ingraham summed that all up in one scary-hilarious bumper sticker.

But, hey, laser-like focus! On buffoonery, evidently.

Related:

‘Fact check: Cute!’ Take a gander at Obama’s latest mock-worthy outlandish Syria defense

‘Best bumper sticker ever!’ Laura Ingraham nails Obama with scary-hilarious advice [pic]

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/09/15/skynet-laughs-nefarious-job-stealing-atms-at-it-again-jonah-goldberg-others-shred-obama/

The NFL is cracking down on players who wear the wrong headphones

http://twitter.com/#!/NQS88/status/521389506595799040

Yes, you read that correctly. The NFL is now fining players who wear the popular “Beats” headphones instead of those made by NFL sponsor, Bose. And players are incurring fines rather than switch:

NFL fines be damned, players are still wearing Beats headphones: http://t.co/KwWlXaeAT9

— Deadspin (@Deadspin) October 12, 2014

NFL players are still wearing Beats headphones despite fines http://t.co/9SZtyaJkDt pic.twitter.com/9Ucr56tpSx

— BI: Tech (@SAI) October 12, 2014

#49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick fined by NFL for wearing Beats by Dre headphones http://t.co/q0qJQGFpdk pic.twitter.com/mvdOirSv6v

— SF Business Times (@SFBusinessTimes) October 12, 2014

NFL players are still wearing Beats by Dre and daring the NFL to fine them.. http://t.co/iZP94wuP1K #redskins #NFL #HTTR

— RedSkins News (@TRACK_RedSkins) October 12, 2014

The NFL’s policy to fine players over this doesn’t make much sense, however. For every fine the NFL levies on a player, “Beats” gets tons of free publicity. There’s some speculation that Beats, which is owned by Apple, will pay the fines for the players, making this pretty cheap advertising for Beats:

It is hilarious how the NFL's ban & fine on players using Beats has caused Beats to get so much more coverage. #streisandeffect

— Wes Miller (@getwired) October 12, 2014

NFL QBs wearing Beats pre-game and getting $10k fine is the greatest advertisement Dr Dre/Apple or whoever owns em now could ever wish for.

— DAVIS HSU (@DavisHsuSeattle) October 12, 2014

If Beats is paying NFL players to take a $10k fine then that is fantastic marketing. Rule No.1: make sure people talk about your product.

— Matt Brian (@m4tt) October 12, 2014

But until we know if Beats is paying the fines and, in effect, using the ban as a marketing ploy, there’s a lot of negative sentiment directed toward the players on Twitter. i.e., It must be nice to have the kind of cash to laugh off $10,000:

@Deadspin must be nice to have thousands of dollars to spend because you want to wear some crappy over priced headphones as a status symbol

— Daniel Erickson (@Texanfuzz414) October 12, 2014

The beats ban in the NFL is stupid, but your more stupid if if youre ok with the 10k fine each wk to wear them anyways.

— Pam (@PRod85) October 12, 2014

You know what's ridiculous? I'm taking out loans to pay for my education but NFL players are paying $10,000 per game to wear Beats

— Kira Fad (@KayFad) October 12, 2014

@Deadspin and people wonder why many of these guys are broke after retiring

— Daniel Erickson (@Texanfuzz414) October 12, 2014

And this user discovered that anybody who decided to Google this whole NFL and Beats controversy gets reminded of the league’s other problem, domestic abuse:

Haven't been following this NFL "Beats" headphones controversy so I thought I'd Google it… pic.twitter.com/w3T8A9bW0z

— Eric Michel (@ericmichel) October 12, 2014

Great job, NFL. You’re giving mega publicity to a competitor’s product AND reminding people that the league has a domestic assault problem:

Massive fines by the NFL hasn't stopped players from putting Beats on their head…or from putting Beats on their wives for that matter.

— Joe Praino (@FixYourLife) October 12, 2014

Fix that Beats by Dre problem before it gets out of hand, @NFL. Ignore that domestic violence problem until it is thrust into the spotlight.

— Greg Kopycinski (@GregKope) October 12, 2014

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Related:

Full Twitchy coverage of Ray Rice scandal here.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/10/12/for-real-the-nfl-is-cracking-down-on-players-who-wear-the-wrong-headphones/

Getting A Job At Goldman Sachs Is Harder Than Getting Into Harvard

Nearly 270,000 people applied for 8,300 Goldman Sachs jobs in 2014.

BuzzFeed, Goldman Sachs, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT

Despite a wave of trend stories about finance losing out in prestige to technology and the persistently poor reputation of investment banks following the financial crisis, a lot of people still want to work at Goldman Sachs, and very few get the opportunity to do so.

In a presentation given at a Credit Suisse conference in South Florida, Goldman Sachs Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein said that “nearly 270,000” people applied for 8,300 open positions at the company, and that, of the roughly 3% of those that got job offers, “nearly 90%” accepted them. “We remain the employer of choice in our industry,” Blankfein said.

While it’s not a perfect comparison, Goldman is in some sense harder to get into than the elite schools that it draws on for many of its bankers and traders. Harvard admitted 5.9% of its applicants for the class of 2018, while Stanford admitted just 5.1%. Yale’s acceptance rate was just over 5%, with Princeton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology both taking in just under 8% of applicants.

Last year, Goldman said its analyst program, which recruits a few hundred people directly from colleges and universities, made job offers to 4% of its applicants.

The difficulty of getting a job at Goldman comes despite the bank’s pay levels staying relatively low, alongside revenues that are basically unchanged over the past years. Goldman spent $12.7 billion on employee compensation in 2014, the bank said, or 37% of its total revenues. In 2007, Goldman’s $20.19 billion in compensation expense was 44% of its total revenues.

Goldman Sachs

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewzeitlin/goldman-acceptance-rate