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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Academic Women's Center to Conservative Women: Not Here

Alderman Library on the campus of UVA.

Probably not, but Karin Agness wants to provide a safe place for conservative women at liberal colleges. “Something the party’s really excited about,” says an RNC spokesperson.

After completing an exhilarating Capitol Hill internship in 2004, Karin Agness returned to University of Virginia eager to find a group of conservative women with whom she could continue her political education. But when she approached the school’s women’s center about co-sponsoring a club to that end, she was rebuffed by a faculty member.

“She just looked at me like I was crazy,” Agness recalled. “She chuckled and said, ‘Not here.’”
Undeterred, Agness founded her own club for young conservative college women — an organization, Network of enlightened Women (NeW), that has since grown to 20 chapters on campuses across the country, and that Republicans hope will offer a foothold in their outreach to an elusive voting demographic: female college students.

According to 2012 exit polls, Mitt Romney won only 36% of women under 30 years old. Republican National Committee spokesperson Sarah Isgur-Flores blamed the party’s trouble reaching these voters, in part, on their message getting “distorted through the lens of liberal academia.”

“We’re a party of ideas that really resonate with college students,” said Isgur-Flores. “Liberty, self-governance — once they hear those ideas from us, they’re meaningful and they identify with them. I think part of this for us is finding messengers and getting them

Charity advises women and young girls to set off airport metal detectors to give them more time to seek help from authorities

Karma Nirvana says purposefully setting off an airport scanner can give women and girls one last chance to tell someone they are at risk of being forced into marriage. Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters
A number of women and girls at risk of forced marriage have avoided going abroad by concealing spoons in their underwear at airport security, according to a campaign group.

Karma Nirvana, a Derby-based charity that supports victims of forced marriage, advises people who ring its helpline to hide a spoon in order to set off metal detectors at British airports. The group says that its recommendation has prevented some women from being spirited overseas.

Last week ministers warned that young people were at the highest risk of being taken abroad for a forced marriage during the school holidays. The government's forced marriage unit received 400 reports between June and August last year, out of an annual total of 1,500.

No one knows for sure how many Britons are forced into marriage each year. Estimates range from 1,500 to 5,000. More than a third of those affected are thought to be aged under 16.

Speaking to the AFP news agency, Natasha Rattu, Karma Nirvana's operations manager, said that when worried youngsters ring the charity's helpline, "if they don't know exactly when it may happen or if it's going to happen, we advise them to put a spoon in their underwear.

"When they go through security, it will highlight this object in a private area and, if 16 or over, they will be

Lobbyist Secretly Wrote House Dems' Letter Urging Weaker Investor Protections

Thirty-two liberal Democrats signed onto a letter drafted by a financial-industry lobbyist that aims to block protections for millions of Americans' retirement accounts.

June 14 letter from 32 House Democrats to the Department of Labor.

A letter that a group of progressive Democrats sent to federal regulators opposing new protections for millions of Americans' retirement accounts was drafted by a financial-industry lobbyist, according to documents obtained by Mother Jones.

The Department of Labor, which oversees the federal law setting minimum standards for many retirement plans, would like to require retirement investment advisers to act in the best interest of their customers, as opposed to their own best interest.

But 28 out of the 43 members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)—a group of African American members of Congress that advocates the interests of low-income people and minorities—signed onto a June 14 letter opposing the rule. So did Democratic lawmakers Pedro Pierluisi of Puerto Rico, Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, Ed Pastor of Arizona, and Jim Costa of California.

The letter's metadata indicates it was drafted by Robert Lewis, a lobbyist who works for the Financial Services Institute (FSI), an investment industry trade group:

Together, the liberal lawmakers who signed the letter have received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign money from the securities and investment industry in recent years.

In the letter, the lawmakers caution the Labor Department against proposing new regulations, warning that a strict new rule on retirement advisers may cause many of them to leave the market and thus "could severely limit access to low-cost investment advice" for "the minority communities we represent."
But the Department of Labor, financial reform groups, and consumer advocates say the regulation won't make it any harder for poor and middle-class customers to get investment advice. The current law doesn't do enough to prevent unscrupulous investment brokers from parking Americans' hard-earned cash in high-fee investments that benefit themselves, even if it's not in their customers best interests, argues Barbara Roper, director of investor protection at the Consumer Federation of America.

Current Labor Department regulations governing retirement investment advisers date back to 1974, when most people had traditional pension plans that left few decisions to workers. Today, most employees have to figure out how to invest their retirement money on their own. Each year, according to the Congressional Research Service, about 10 million people change jobs and must move their retirement money from employee-sponsored 401(k) plans into individual retirement accounts. As Americans seek advice on what to do with those IRAs, they often consult advisers who stand to profit by duping investors into making unnecessary high-fee investments.

"This rule is about protecting people from conflicts of interest," says Phyllis Borzi, the Department of Labor's assistant secretary for employee benefits security, who is spearheading the push for a stronger investment adviser rule. "Those conflicts harm everyone who is doing the right thing and trying to save."

Borzi emphasizes that an updated adviser rule is especially important to protect working-class people from predatory investment counselors. Conflicts of interest in the business "are particularly harmful when you're talking about low-income workers, who can least afford to lose their hard-earned savings," she says.

But the industry has a lot to lose from a rule change. FSI has expressed concern that the regulation would limit the types of fees advisers can collect for servicing retirement accounts. The trade group spent $196,000 on lobbying in the just the first quarter of 2013—that's nearly half the the total it spent on lobbying in all of 2012. On a recent federal disclosure form, FSI listed the Labor Department's investment adviser rule at the top of its lobbying issues. FSI did not respond to requests for comment on the ghostwritten letter.

It's not unheard of for lobbyists to ghostwrite letters—or even legislation—for lawmakers. In May, Mother Jones reported on a House bill written almost entirely by a Citigroup lobbyist that would vastly expand the types of risky trades a bank can conduct with taxpayer-backed money.

The House Dems' letter of opposition could help the financial industry make a case that there is widespread concern about the change. The signatories represent low- and middle-income districts with large proportions of minority voters. The CBC has long backed progressive policies that help low-income folks, such as nutrition assistance, jobs programs, and unemployment benefits. Fifteen of the CBC members who signed the letter are also part of the 68-member Congressional Progressive Caucus.

A spokeswoman for the CBC emphasized that the caucus is concerned about the effect of the rule on the "smaller, independent financial services firms that provide tailored financial services to underrepresented communities" that FSI represents, adding that "the one-size-fits-all approach to policymaking is not always in the best interest of our constituents." (The offices of the non-CBC signatories did not respond to a request for comment.)

Marcus Stanley, policy director at the advocacy group Americans for Financial Reform, notes that no matter the size of the firms FSI represents, the trade group has "a very clear interest that gives them a perspective on this that can be at odds with the perspective of constituents who are investing their retirement investments."

In just the last election cycle, lawmakers who signed the June 14 letter raked in over $88,000 in donations from the

Fox News Dominates All Time Slots And All Age Groups

So the filthy lying bastards in the leftist public relations media (as George Orwell calls Them) has been having an echo fest of calling Fox News viewers old and saying hysterical things like:

Be Patient: Fox News Viewers Have Maybe 15-20 Years Left to Live
Only Old People Watch Fox News -- Daily Intelligencer
Fox News has oldest cable audience - Live Feed
Fox News Fans: A Dying Breed? - NewsHounds
Fox News' aging audience could be a big problem- MSN Money
Old People Love Fox News - FishbowlNY - Mediabistro

This is all wishful thinking for the foul-brained Marxists in the leftist propaganda media. Here are the FACTS: FOX News gets double the vaunted 25-54 year old age group viewers of any show in any time slot.

Read it and weep you filthy lying Marxist media outlets:

Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for Thursday, August 15, 2013

Net	Morning programs (6-9 AM)	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	FOX & Friends	1,094	245	479
CNN	Early Start/Starting Point	280	85	124
MSNBC	Morning Joe	369	117	186
CNBC	Squawk Box	104	42	55
HLN	Morning Express w/ Meade	238	144	179

Net	5PM	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	FIVE, THE	1,738	261	594
CNN	Situation Room	411	109	216
MSNBC	HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS	522	115	160
CNBC	FAST MONEY	119	34	66
HLN	EVENING EXPRESS	158	53	87

Net	6PM	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	SPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER	1,601	268	507
CNN	Situation Room	339	117	156
MSNBC	POLITICS NATION	510	138	181
CNBC	Mad Money	105	48	40
HLN	EVENING EXPRESS	126	46	90

Net	7PM	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	The Fox Report W/S.SMITH	1,387	188	458
CNN	ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT	412	139	182
MSNBC	HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS	488	140	151
CNBC	Kudlow Report	84	16	26
HLN	JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL	227	70	136

Net	8PM	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	THE OREILLY FACTOR	2,517	342	863
CNN	Anderson Cooper 360	559	115	237
MSNBC	ALL IN W/ CHRIS HAYES	527	121	195
CNBC	AMERICAN GREED	127	45	56
HLN	Nancy Grace	288	101	165

Net	9PM	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	Hannity	1,554	249	557
CNN	PIERS MORGAN LIVE	504	80	199
MSNBC	Rachel Maddow Show	681	139	308
CNBC	AMERICAN GREED	232	116	93
HLN	Dr. Drew ON CALL	309	97	173

Net	10PM	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	ON THE RECORD W/GRETA	1,269	204	478
CNN	Anderson Cooper 360	522	132	278
MSNBC	Last Word W/ L. ODONNELL	535	110	234
CNBC	AMERICAN GREED	241	105	114
HLN	HLN AFTER DARK	180	74	120

Net	11PM	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	THE OREILLY FACTOR	1,068	246	531
CNN	ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT	306	87	149
MSNBC	ALL IN W/ CHRIS HAYES	279	84	126
CNBC	Mad Money	132	78	68
HLN	SHOWBIZ TONIGHT	151	71	99

For other days cable news ratings click here.

P2+ = viewers over the age of 2

(25-54) = Adults 25-54 viewing

(35-64) = Adults 35-64 viewing

Prime Time = 8-11pm

LIVE+SD: The number that watched a program either while it was broadcast OR watched via DVR on the same day [through 3AM the next day] the program was broadcast. For more information see Numbers 101.

Scratch = when a show's audience fails to meet minimum Nielsen reporting levels. For more information go here.

Data Source: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/08/16/cable-news-ratings-for-thursday-august-15-2013/197950/

Female Member of Israeli Parliament Obliterates John Kerry: You will "cause the whole region to spin out of control"

In letter publicized to the press, Shaked attacks US pressure to release terrorists: "You are putting me and my children's lives at risk"

Bayit Yehudi MK Ayelet Shaked has released a scathing open letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry, for pushing the Israeli government to release convicted terrorist murderers...

"In light of the current situation that you have brought about, I feel that I cannot be bound by the restraints of 'politically correct' wording, and I therefore will allow myself to convey my following message to you in the most straightforward fashion... By forcing Israel to capitulate to terrorism by releasing murdering terrorists with so much blood on their hands that the US would never dream of releasing if it was their own citizens murdered – you are not only being extremely hypocritical, but are actually dabbling in experimentation and (read the rest HERE)

A Bullet Proof, Fire Proof Gun Case Inside a Couch...

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Imagine a fire-rated gun safe hidden inside a custom built couch, with bullet proof cushions with carry straps, so they can be used on the fly as a shield. Now there is one.

CouchBunker™ patent pending, is available in a wide range of styles, leather and fabric coverings creating choices from game room casual to living room formal.

The optional bullet resistant cushions, serving as portable, personal shields, will stop a 44 Magnum at point blank range.

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