Leading up to Asian Heritage Month, we invite you to Nominate a Glamourbaby, a young woman making a difference in the world. The grand prize female winner will receive a “Success Toolkit” that includes:
- Seven beneficial and relaxing wellness sessions from Empowerment Coach Renata…
centerforinvestigativereporting:
In case you missed it, Jon Stewart calls out President Obama for failing to fix the backlog of 900,000 veterans waiting for benefits from the VA. Notable appearances include CIR reporter Aaron Glantz and the Hamburglar.
centerforinvestigativereporting:
As a candidate, President Obama promised to revamp a “broken VA bureaucracy,” but internal documents show that the agency’s ability to quickly provide service-related benefits to veterans has virtually collapsed under his administration.
The number of veterans waiting more than a year for their benefits grew from 11,000 in 2009, the first year of Obama’s presidency, to 245,000 in December – an increase of more than 2,000 percent. Internal data indicates that veterans filing their first claim, including those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, wait between 316 and 327 days on their claim.
Get the full story from reporter Aaron Glantz.
Graphic by Lauren Rabaino
Help These 5 Pups Find a Good Home
Tonight is the big event! The ASPCA’s #PuppyLove Twitter party kicks off at 6pm EST, and you’re invited to answer trivia questions, win prizes, and meet these five adorable contestants. The Meet Your Match dating show will stream live, right here on The FluffPo, and you might just fall in love with one of these adoptable pooches.
Follow @ASPCA, @TheFluffPo, @DogTipper and the hashtag #PuppyLove for all the action. It starts at 6pm EST, and we look forward to seeing you there!
Hey Twitter pals! This is happening today, at 3 p.m. PST/6 p.m. EST, and maybe you want to participate!
On the list of 15 things that women love to wear:
“I have found it to be true that men tend to not understand or like sequins very much. Men don’t like the wedge shoe, I have noticed. Men don’t like the statement necklace or chunky, tribal jewelry. These are all the things, by the way, that I love, so the overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear, and things that I love to wear, is almost full overlap … which is unfortunate for me.
“Like most women, I dress for other women. If I was going to dress for men, in general, I would just be wearing a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day. Of course, this is my unscientific research done by working with male comedy writers for the past eight years. They just tend to really like — this specific group of guys — really simple, clean lines, things like that, but I don’t. So I dress for women, I wear all of those things, because I like looking at it. It makes me feel happy and excited to wear it.”
Photo by: Jordin Althaus/Fox
Entire interview: http://www.npr.org/2012/09/25/161745528/mindy-kaling-loves-rom-coms-and-being-the-boss
“You Wish”
Something to get you/me motivated.
Nieces. I hope they stay happy and confident this way.
Indian women protesting against the brutal gang-rape of a woman last week attempt to remove police barricades as they try to approach the residence of Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde in New Delhi, on December 24, 2012. Authorities shut down roads in the heart of India’s capital on Monday to put an end to a week of demonstrations. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)
FULL PHOTOS HERE: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/12/violent-protests-in-india-over-rape-case/100429/#
The world is changing, especially in India, especially for Indian women.
