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To: zax who wrote (943684)	6/28/2016 11:47:48 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo Stock Puppy Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576705

Your post is a highly offensive micro-aggression. If you're going to be a liberal you need to act like one.

To: zax who wrote (943684)	6/29/2016 6:57:03 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576705

12 Ways to Spot a Misogynist \| Psychology Today psychologytoday.com The following traits are typical of the misogynist: He will zero in on a woman and choose her as his target.

To: zax who wrote (943684)	6/29/2016 9:21:16 AM
From: locogringo	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB John Respond to of 1576705

John Lewis and other Democrats face ethics complaint … What time will you be posting your apology to Longnshort and the thread?

To: zax who wrote (943684)	6/29/2016 12:30:52 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo TideGlider Respond to of 1576705

And the responses from the very followers of Occupy Democrats themselves. (Oh, and Bristol is married now.) ...

To: zax who wrote (943684)	6/29/2016 1:26:51 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 1576705

Published on Wednesday, June 29, 2016 by Common Dreams Obama Insiders Angling to Buy For-Profit College Amid Crackdown One helped with 'effort to more tightly regulate for-profit colleges at the very agency now charged with approving the ownership change' by Nadia Prupis, staff writer Three former Obama administration officials are asking the Education Department to approve a private purchase of the controversial University of Phoenix college system. (Photo: Getty) Three former Obama administration insiders are working behind the scenes to get the Education Department to approve a private buy of the controversial University of Phoenix college system—even as President Barack Obama pledges to rein in for-profit education. Politico reports: The investors include a private equity firm founded and run by longtime Obama friend Marty Nesbitt and former Deputy Education Secretary Tony Miller. The firm, Chicago-based Vistria Group, has mounted a charm offensive on Capitol Hill to talk up the proposed sale of the troubled for-profit education giant, which receives more than $2 billion a year in taxpayer money but is under investigation by three state attorneys general and the FTC. Other key players in the deal are also either one-time White House insiders or close to the president himself, such as Jonathan Samuels, "who was responsible for pushing Obama's agenda through Congress during his nearly six years working in legislative affairs at the White House," Politico's Michael Stratford and Kimberly Hefling report. The insiders are now asking the Education Department to allow the purchase of the University of Phoenix for $1.1 billion. Miller himself "was part of the effort to more tightly regulate for-profit colleges at the very agency now charged with approving the ownership change," Stratford and Hefling write. Mark Schneider, a former education official under then-President George W. Bush, toldPolitico, "There is at least a taste of unseemliness involved in this." "They regulate it. They drive the price down.... They are buying it for pennies on the dollar," he said. The investors are claiming that they will use the acquisition to reform the failing education company and run it in "a manner consistent with the highest ethical standards." But the deal's critics question that claim. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), who leads the higher education subcommittee of the Committee on Education and the Workforce in the U.S. House of Representatives, said, "It's ironic that a former senior official at the Department of Education—an agency that has intentionally targeted and sought to dismantle the for-profit college industry—would now take the reins at the country's largest for-profit college." The University of Phoenix approved the buy in February. The White House's so-called "crackdown" on for-profit colleges, announced in 2014, officially rolled out in July 2015.

To: zax who wrote (943684)	6/29/2016 1:27:34 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 1576705

Hillary Superpac Has Taken $200,000 In Banned Donations These past few weeks have been quite interesting for Hillary Clinton. We learned that Clinton omitted one key email from the State Department, that Hillary's official State Department calendar is missing a lot of entries, and we were reminded that it can be quite lucrative to be a friend of Hillary. Now, courtesy of The Hill, we find that a super-PAC backing Clinton has accepted $200,000 in donations from a company holding multiple contracts with the federal government, despite a ban on such contributions. Said otherwise, the super-PAC is engaged in a pay-to-play deal.