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talk-without-speaking: Capital Cities - Safe and Sound I wish I...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:58:41 -0500

Capital Cities - Safe and Sound

I wish I could be this optimistic lol not really

I could lift you up
I could show you what you want to see
and take you where you want to be

You could be my luck
Even if the sky is falling down
I know that we’ll be safe and sound

I could fill your cup
You know my river won’t evaporate
This world we still appreciate

You could be my luck
Even in a hurricane of frowns
I know that we’ll be safe and sound

I could show you love
In a tidal wave of mystery
You’ll still be standing next to me

You could be my luck
Even if we’re six feet underground
I know that we’ll be safe and sound

Credits

From Capital Cities EP, 2011
Written, performed and produced by Sebu Simonian and Ryan Merchant. Additional guitars by Nick Merwin. Trumpet by Brian Warfield.

Should students get to pay the same interest rate as banks?

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:51:28 -0500

Should students get to pay the same interest rate as banks?:

current:

On July 1, student loan interest rates are set to double - from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., introduced her first piece of legislation on the Senate floor: students paying back federally subsidized loans would have an interest rate of .75 percent. That’s the same rate that major banks are charged for borrowing money from the government. Her argument is that students shouldn’t have to pay nine times as much interest as banks for their loans.

Her statement, via Americablog:

Big banks pay interest that is one-ninth the rate that students will pay. That is wrong. It doesn’t reflect our values. We shouldn’t be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while we’re giving great deals to big banks. We should be investing in our young people so they can get good jobs and grow this economy, so let’s give them the same great deal the banks get….

If the Federal Reserve can float trillions of dollars to large financial institutions at low interest rates to grow the economy, surely they can float the Department of Education the money to fund our students, keep us competitive, and grow our middle class.

She continuesto explain how her own student debt repayments were equal to her rent back in 1989, which caused her to put off major purchases like buying a home.

What do you think? Should students get the same interest rate as the banks? Or are they apples and oranges when it comes to borrowing money?

Should students get to pay the same interest rate as banks?

"American workers are more likely to be killed by their boss than a terrorist."

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:49:23 -0500

“American workers are more likely to be killed by their boss than a terrorist.”

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Every day, workers are forced to minimize safety in order to keep their jobs. The vast majority of American workers have no unions to defend their right to workplace safety. The U.S. Department of Labor and other federal agencies do not protect workers from being killed on the job.

The explosion in West, Texas was as big as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh, yet there will be no war on this kind of terrorism. This is because the prevailing philosophy is profit before people.

American workers are more likely to be killed by their boss than a terrorist. Last year, approximately 5,000 workers were killed at work by unsafe conditions.

Kevin Harrington, New York City

(via socialismartnature)

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"I was led to believe the problem was going to be gays in the military. Turns out it might be..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:47:08 -0500

“I was led to believe the problem was going to be gays in the military. Turns out it might be straight [people] in the military that are the real problem.”

- Cenk Uygur: Increases in sexual assault numbers prove the military is still male-dominated (via current)

Universal Puts 'Jurassic Park 4' on Hold

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:45:50 -0500

Universal Puts 'Jurassic Park 4' on Hold:

shortformblog:

The dinosaur sequel, being directed by Colin Trevorrow, was due to begin production June 24 for a release date of June 13, 2014.

But on Wednesday the studio put the brakes on the project, deciding it needed more time for development.

While we don’t have much of an opinion on this news, we imagine there are more than a few Jurassic Park fans out there thrilled to hear that JP4 won’t be rushed to the silver screen.

Jurassic Park 4 has been on hold since right after Jurassic Park 3 came out… 12 years ago.

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keepcalmandtraveltheworld: Cascadas de Tamul, San Luis Potosi,...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:03:34 -0500

keepcalmandtraveltheworld:

Cascadas de Tamul, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

hugewiener: There was a party on May 3rd at the University of...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:01:21 -0500

hugewiener:

There was a party on May 3rd at the University of Southern California with the majority of attendees being African-American and Hispanic USC students. The party was registered with the school, and there was another party directly across the street being attended by mostly Caucasian/White students. Both parties had similar noise levels according to dozens of accounts from both sides (source).

Two cops arrived to the party with the minorities and told them to lower their noise level; the party’s host told the attendees to go inside the house and they resumed the party in there with lower volume. A few minutes later the cops came back and students began leaving, and the cops arrested the host. More and more cops began to arrive and soon a helicopter came. All of this was while the students were filing out and more and more cops entered the home; furthermore, the white party continued across the street and some officers even went there to tell them to stay inside and safe. A white student told reporters that “basically they didn’t stop our party at all. They had no problem with us.” (source).

As the minority students saw all the cops and attempted to leave, some were tased, and some were slammed to the ground and arrested. Many resisted on the grounds that they had no idea why they were being arrested seeing as they were leaving peacefully and were over the drinking age (the party required ID). Even more cops arrived (source)(video).

Later that night at about 4:30am, a resident at the house where the white party was thrown was awoken by thudding. He rose to see two LAPD officers trying to speak to his roommate. They ordered him to wake up everybody in the (co-ed) house and as they did so they stumbled into two female residents shirtless and asleep, and one of the officers simply stared. (source)

The reason that they were in that house was to gather statements about how LAPD acted correctly against the minority students but the students at the white party’s house gave factual statements that did not incriminate the minority students how the officers wanted. They have complained about their home being entered without a warrant in the middle of the night but have yet to hear back.

On Tuesday USC will have an open forum in regards to the racial profiling that happened (at the party and in the past) at the school but that is not enough; this has to be more than a local issue and should be made known nationally. USC has issues with racial profiling and it is time that it stops. Anyone can help by signing this petition and making it big. (Photograph source)

mexicanfoodporn: Agua fresca de Horchata Recipe

Fri, 03 May 2013 18:22:11 -0500

mexicanfoodporn:

Agua fresca de Horchata

Recipe

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oinonio: U.S. Gun Deaths Since the Massacre at Newtown

Fri, 03 May 2013 18:18:13 -0500

oinonio:

U.S. Gun Deaths Since the Massacre at Newtown

"For the last three decades many Americans have puzzled over a system that gives an R to a movie in..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 18:18:06 -0500

““For the last three decades many Americans have puzzled over a system that gives an R to a movie in which a women is carved up by a chainsaw and an NC-17 to one that shows a woman sexually pleasured. From such ratings one might conclude that sexual violence against women is OK for American teenagers to see, but that they must be 18 to see consensual sex. What message does this send to the kids the MPAA presumably means to protect?””

- Carrie Rickey

(via fireworkselectricbright)

“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario which is both complicit and complex. It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than this film.”

-Ryan Gosling on the controversy around the rating of his film ‘Blue Valentine’

(via misandry-mermaid)

thexnineteen: Squeeze Me | Kraak & Smaak

Thu, 02 May 2013 15:49:06 -0500

thexnineteen:

Squeeze Me | Kraak & Smaak

foreverabitch: Day eight: A song that you want to begin the...

Thu, 02 May 2013 15:36:49 -0500

foreverabitch:

Day eight: A song that you want to begin the week with:

Here I Go Again - Whitesnake

"Here I go again on my own, going down the only road I’ve ever known. Like a drifter, I was born to..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 15:34:33 -0500

“Here I go again on my own, going down the only road I’ve ever known. Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone.”

- Whitesnake - Here I Go Again. (via killingmedisaster)

stfuconservatives: truth-has-a-liberal-bias: Republicans are...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:29:36 -0500

stfuconservatives:

truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

Republicans are useless. GOP = NRA.

Do you see that? RONALD FUCKING REAGAN agreed that while gun control won’t stop ALL gun crimes, it’s a step in the right direction to make them less accessible. Why is this so hard for people to understand?

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colchrishadfield: Looking out the windows of ISS, every day is...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:02:32 -0500

colchrishadfield:

Looking out the windows of ISS, every day is Earth Day.

“Every day is Earth Day.”

No truer words have been said before.