America’s Exclusive, Math-Challenged Party

energyClarice Feldman – Math is apparently very hard for Democrats, judging from the apparatchiks’ comments on who can run for office on their party’s ticket or contribute to that effort. This week, men and billionaires are out:

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s newly appointed executive director wants to cancel male political candidates. Lucinda Guinn, a former executive at pro-abortion fundraising giant EMILY’s List, was named executive director of the embattled Democratic elections organization. The news comes as a blow to male Democrats, as Guinn has indicated on social media that she does not want men to run for office.

In a February tweet, Guinn appeared to agree with another user’s proposal that “we shouldn’t let boys run for office anymore.”

Even who is allowed to contribute to the DCCC is a cause for progressives to deny it funding. Apparently they want money to go to the DCCC only if poor people contribute to it: Richies get out!

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Bank Collapse – It’s Happening

ChesapeakeBix Weir – Rumors of bank failures around the world are absolutely true…and they are very, very contagious!

US Banks were told by the Fed NOT to mark to market their energy assets and not to cause any disruption in the oil and gas sector by pulling lines of credit or forcing companies into bankruptcy. All well and good if all they needed was to get past the 4th quarter 2015 but now things have not improved – they have only gotten worse and the spotlight is on the write downs for the 1st quarter 2016.

Chesapeake Energy Craters 40% on Restructuring Report
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-08/chesapeake-energy-craters-22-percent-on-restructuring-report

Chesapeake Energy Corp., the U.S. natural gas driller that’s been slashing jobs and investor payouts to conserve dwindling cash flows, lost more than a third of its value after a report that it hired a restructuring law firm.
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