Category: Anxiety

Please, no: Debbie Wasserman Schultz talks Spanx with Bill Burton, Brad Woodhouse

http://twitter.com/#!/go_galt/status/276307948630859776

Yes, please. Make it stop. For the love of everything ever, make it stop.

This morning, fresh off his Papa John’s attack, DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse linked Kathleen Parker’s absurd column warning Sen. John McCain and other Susan Rice critics against “ganging up on a highly qualified black woman.” Parker sneered, “McCain’s opinion about Rice’s qualifications is only slightly less compelling than his thoughts on Playtex vs. Spanx.”

Enter Bill Maher-loving Obama Super PAC shill Bill Burton, who totally gets the ladies and their glorified girdles.

.@woodhouseb you’re brave to retweet a link that includes the word “Spanx” (which I didn’t know required capitalization until this morning).

— Bill Burton (@billburton716) December 5, 2012

But wait … unfortunately there’s more. DNC chair and Obama-fave Debbie Wasserman Schultz just had to get in on the Spanx kaffeeklatsch with a little lady parts peddling.

.@billburton716 @woodhouseb Hmmm-betting neither of you knew what Spanx were until the tweet! Billion dollar woman-led company. #justsayin

— D Wasserman Schultz (@DWStweets) December 5, 2012

Thank goodness the DNC chair has laser-like focus on the important issues … like Spanx trivia.

Let ‘em know @dwstweets! @billburton716 @woodhouseb #justsayin #spanx

— Holly Robinson Peete (@hollyrpeete) December 5, 2012

There’s no hour of the day that’s not too early for this.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/12/05/please-no-debbie-wasserman-schultz-talks-spanx-with-bill-burton-brad-woodhouse/

Student Financial Institution Closes On Controversial Deal Buying Corinthian Campuses

After days of delays.

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Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed News

the huge for-profit college operator Corinthian Colleges features shut on a deal to offer 53 of their campuses and its online programs to ECMC Group, a nonprofit student loan guarantor, after weeks of delays. Corinthian revealed the finalized $24 million package in a securities filing this morning.

Underneath the offer, a lot of the Everest and Wyotech College campuses had by Corinthian are transformed into nonprofits, and can still operate and enlist pupils — apart from schools in Ca, which were excluded from purchase.

Corinthian, when one of several biggest for-profit university organizations in the country, has been doing the entire process of shutting down since July, when it achieved an agreement using Education Department to close or sell off every one of its campuses. Corinthian was in fact plagued by lawsuits and investigations into deceptive registration techniques and poor effects of students.

When the recommended purchase of Corinthian’s schools to ECMC Group had been announced belated this past year, it drew staunch criticism from lawmakers and activists, just who warned that ECMC, with never previously owned an university, was unprepared to manage running Corinthian’s struggling campuses. ECMC features a controversial history as a student financial obligation enthusiast.

Some argued that college’s campuses need to have been forced to shut down entirely, enabling pupils at Corinthian’s schools to gather refunds and begin fresh. Nevertheless the knowledge Department argued that it was in students’ most useful interest to carry on their educations, and openly endowed the ECMC sale.

The buyer Financial Protection Bureau, that is suing Corinthian on the company’s private lending system, introduced a statement Tuesday stating that the deal included $480 million in debt relief for former pupils. That debt relief applies only to personal loans, not to ever the federal financial loans that make up most outstanding education loan debt among Corinthian students. The CFPB’s lawsuit against Corinthian continues to be ongoing.

The fate of Corinthian’s Ca schools remains up in the air.

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mollyhensleyclancy/student-loan-company-closes-on-controversial-deal-to-buy-cor

What The Dress Colour You See Says About You

A highly scientific* analysis. *Not scientific at all.

1. You’ve seen the dress. You’ve ended friendships. You’ve found out what science has to say. But here’s what it REALLY says about you…

You've seen the dress. You've ended friendships. You've found out what science has to say. But here's what it REALLY says about you...

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(According to three BuzzFeed Australia writers who are making this shit up because WHAT DOES LIFE EVEN MEAN ANYMORE WE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN???!?!?!??!!)

2. If you see blue and black:


Jenna: You see things for what they are. You’re not easily deceived and haven’t got time for bullshit. You’re no-nonsense and probably smarter than everyone else, lbr.

Stephanie: You’re a big fan of: 1) being right, 2) the Backstreet Boys, 3) being in the company of the greats, i.e., Mindy Kaling, Tinashe, Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato, and a gazillion other people who are correct.

Brad: If you see blue and black you are, on top of being a genius, also correct. You are to the point, stoic, and understanding. You have no time for the frivolous nature of “gold and white” lovers. The world is a real place, and you see things the way they *really* are.

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Twitter: @_Snape_

4. If you see white and gold:


Jenna: You’re imaginative and creative. You’re not bound by “reality” and know there’s more to things than meets the eye.

Stephanie: You believe it’s true, but you are probably tripping balls.

Brad: You’re wrong about a lot of things, but your headstrong nature sees you often convince people otherwise. For you, it’s all about attitude.

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Twitter: @HungerGamesDWTC

6. If you see blue and gold:


Jenna: IDK WTF is wrong with you? You should probably see a doctor about that.

Stephanie: This is a glamorous colour combination, and that is your approach to life. You see things the way you want to and that’s A-OK.

Brad: You like to take the good with the good, and won’t take bad news for an answer. You spend your days with a smile on your face. You’re definitely a *morning person*.

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Paramount / Via Brad Esposito / BuzzFeed

8. If you see blue and bronze:


Jenna: You’re a natural diplomat, and try to see both sides of a problem before making a decision. In other words, you’re a fence-sitter.

Stephanie: TBH, you’re probably right and you understand the difference between gold and bronze, which is a virtue. You also know that this dress wouldn’t even make bronze in the fashion Olympics, because it sucks.

Brad: You take your time with things. Often, you’ll stare at a tree for hours on end, just thinking about its point in the universe. Is it a tree? What makes it a tree? If you stop calling it a tree, is it still a tree?

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Twitter: @kyleisperfect

10. If you see white and black:


Jenna: You’re a dog.

Stephanie: Get off Instagram for two seconds and look at an unfiltered version of the dress pls.

Brad: You’re wrong. Just wrong. And you should go see a doctor.

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Twitter: @court_with_a_K

12. If you see blue and brown:


Jenna: You like eating ice cream and being sad.

Stephanie: You’re incorrect. Seek help XOXO.

Brad: Congratulations, you’re sad. Cheer up a little bit, because blue and brown is a colour combo that has worked literally three times.

13. If you see white and brown:


Jenna: You’re a dog.

Stephanie: Sorry about your life choices that have led you to this point.

Brad: You grew up reading comic books, pondering the world, and wishing you had superpowers. You don’t have superpowers.

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Disney

15. If you have seen it change colours:


Jenna: The dress put a spell on you and now it owns your soul.

Stephanie: If it changed colours, you legit just need to get your eyes tested. Colours don’t change.

Brad: You’re not afraid to experiment and try new things.

16. If you saw literally any other combination:


Jenna: You just had to be different, didn’t you?!?!

Stephanie: You’re a loner who sees the world in a different light than everyone else. This is probably because you’re wearing ’90s colour-tinted lenses or something.

Brad: You’re one of “those” people that just *has* to be different.

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/dressgate

Progressive Caucus Chair: Netanyahu Speech To Congress An “Insult”

“Him insulting the presidency and siding with the Republicans and coming in to give that talk to a joint session, I think it smacks of politics.”

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Progressive Caucus co-chairman Rep. Raul Grijalva Monday called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned address to a joint session of Congress an “insult.”

The Democrat from Arizona has previously said he will not attend the speech.

“Him insulting the presidency and siding with the Republicans and coming in to give that talk to a joint session, I think it smacks of politics,” Grijalva said on Sirius XM’s The Agenda in a radio interview. “It smacks of convenience, his election is a week away in Israel. And I for one am not going to contribute to that insult. There’s a protocol and Mr. Boehner is not in charge of foreign policy for this nation. The president is in charge of that and whether you like Obama or not, that’s the process.”

Grijalva said “it’s up to every individual” to decide if they wanted to attend the speech.

“You’ve had colleagues like John Lewis, Mr. Conyers…I’ve heard of other names but I don’t want to use them because, uh, at least those two are public say, ‘I’m not attending.’ And I that’s an individual choice each member should make.”

“Personally, I’m not attending, for myself, and that’s not a Progressive Caucus position or are we whipping them to do that,” he added. “I think each member has to. I’ve felt the prime minister’s intrusion into 2012, in practically endorsing Romney in that election was again an interference in the internal politics of a nation.”

The congressman cited the protocol followed by the Pope to set up an address to Congress later this year as evidence Netanyhu was breaking protocol by speaking to Congress without the president’s approval.

“If it’s good enough for the pope it should be good enough for the prime minister.”

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Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/progressive-caucus-chair-netanyahu-speech-to-congress-an-ins

Cleaver: Romney shouldn’t criticize Obama in front of a black audience

http://twitter.com/#!/secupp/status/223072324876910594

Today’s lesson in race card logic comes to us courtesy of Congressional Black Caucus chairman Emanuel Cleaver. Here’s how he reacted to Romney’s criticism of Obamacare while delivering a speech at the annual NAACP convention:

Rep Cleaver (D-MO) MSNBC: booing Romney on healthcare “inappropriate but predictable” & “he should never have gone there in the first place”

— Greg Giroux (@greggiroux) July 11, 2012

Video via The Washington Examiner:

Such is life under Obama’s post-racial presidency. Apparently a white candidate must never “go there” when speaking to a black audience about a black opponent’s policies. It’s okay to talk about Obamacare, just not to “this audience.”

Would Rep. Cleaver would prefer that Romney lie? Does he think black Americans need to be pandered to and spoon-fed liberal pablum instead of hearing what Romney’s candidacy is really about?

https://twitter.com/PollyCarbo/status/223075322516611073

Nothing racist about that. No siree.

Shorter Rep. Cleaver: Obama should not be criticized in front of the American people because of his skin color.

— joe warner (@jwarner180) July 11, 2012

Conservatives on Twitter tried to puzzle out how Rep. Cleaver’s logic might apply to other situations.

So I guess President Obama shouldn't criticize Romney in front a white audience in Ohio, right Rep. Cleaver? #StuckOnStupid

— Seth (@dcseth) July 11, 2012

According to Cleaver's logic, Obama shouldn't criticize Palin while speaking before women.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) July 11, 2012

Rep. Cleaver must also believe that Obama can never criticize Romney in front of white voters. Right?

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) July 11, 2012

Obama shouldn't criticize obsesity in front of fat people.

— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) July 11, 2012

Can Obama criticize Romney in front of white audience? @secupp: Cleaver: Romney should not have criticized Obama in front of black audience.

— Brad Boll (@acoltfan) July 11, 2012

This tweet just might blow Rep. Cleaver’s mind.

Rep. Cleaver shouldn't criticize Romney criticizing Obama in front of a black audience in front of a white audience.

— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) July 11, 2012

Hey, Rep. Cleaver, we’ve got news for you:

@BenHowe Anybody who says the president shouldn't be criticized is obviously not well versed in history or the Constitution.

— This Will Kill You (@stephenkruiser) July 11, 2012

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/07/11/rep-cleaver-romney-shouldnt-criticize-obama-in-front-of-a-black-audience/

#IAm1A: ‘Journalism is an act, not a members-only country club’ [video]

http://twitter.com/#!/FranklinCenter/status/395937068809195520

The Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity is taking action against an attempt to give the government power to decide who is and isn’t considered a “journalist”:

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee led by Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham have attached an amendment to Senate Bill 987, which would give the Department of Justice power to determine who qualifies for protection as a journalist under the First Amendment.

Here at the Franklin Center, we believe in the power of a free press. We already have a law to protect the press from government meddling in our newsgathering efforts and excluding Americans from the reporting process. It’s called the First Amendment.

Gee, what could possibly go wrong with the government deciding who is and isn’t a “journalist”? We thought the government worked for the people, not the other way around.

http://twitter.com/#!/912inMA/status/395961998254419969

Video from the Franklin Center:

For more information on how to take action against this latest attack on free speech, go to IAm1A.com.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/10/31/iam1a-journalism-is-an-act-not-a-members-only-country-club-video/