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With all the talk about Bank Bailouts, Credit Card Bailouts and Big Corporation Bailouts, there is one section of our country that is curiously being overlooked when it comes to desperately needing a bailout, Student Loans.

I recently came across this Facebook Group Cancel Student Loan Debt to Stimulate the Economy and agree with it 100%, this quote pretty much sums it all up:

“There is a lot of sympathy for homeowners who were victims of predatory lending; at least a mortgagee can file bankruptcy.

Many University students were only eighteen years of age when they signed on for enormous debt from which they can never recover. Where is their protection from predatory lenders?”

In our county higher education is prized and pounded into our head from Kindergarten. We teach our children that without a college education they will have to struggle to survive and will never live a wealthy, successful or happy life.

But what they never mention, until after the fact is how much a college education actually costs and that there is no guarantee that a college degree will grant you a high paying salary to allow you to live the American dream.

Speaking from experience, I can honestly say that my college education; apart from giving me a Bachelors Degree, has also thrown me into debt, lowered my credit score, has made it impossible to establish any new credit and has made living a happy life almost impossible. Even though I have 2 jobs and literally 75% of my total monthly income goes to payback student loans, I am getting taxed on these and still giving all the earned wages back to the Government; which is basically paying them twice, all while I still have to pay my other bills and find a way to survive.

So now myself, like many other American’s must be asking why is our United States Government throwing billions of tax payer dollars at Big Corporations who are directly responsible for their own financial crisis and ripping off the citizens of our country, but no one is willing to help college graduates who are only doing what the leaders of our country have asked of them to do, get a higher education?

Student Loan Bailout

I, like many others, feel that if there was a Student Loan Bailout, then our economy would improve faster then any other bailout proposal so far.

The lending companies would get all their money back; the money that goes to paying student loans would be saved in our banks or spent back into the economy, people would be able to pay their credit card bills, car payments, mortgage payments; people would be able to have extra money to invest in the stock market, small business or housing and rather quickly our recession would be on it’s way to being turned around.

Even if you do not owe any student loans, I ask that you join Cancel Student Loan Debt to Stimulate the Economy because this is something that we all will benefit from.

Why should the big corporation multi-millionaires who are responisble for our recession be the only ones who get assistence when the hardworking American people are the ones stuck with the bill?

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Lady GaaG is at it again, just proving why we love her so much.

Besides being a talented piano player, songwriter, singer and fashionista, Lady GaGa shows us another reason why you can’t help but like her.

In a time when the social norm and trendy Hollywood dictate the direction everyone should dress, Lady GaGa goes her own way, bringing her own sense of style to; well frankly a cookie-cutter Beverly Hills 90210 and The Hills look to today’s fashion.

Say what you will about Lady GaGa, lets face it, she has talent.

Shes responsible for many club favorites, has written songs for Akon, Fergie, Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears and New Kids on the Block and is bringing back  a sense of style that has been missing from the music industry for a very long time.

Image courtesy of TMZ.com

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Men, are you looking for a wrist watch that will catch everyone’s eye and set you apart from the crowd? Tokyo Flash may be the website for you.

Lets face it, if you are looking for what’s new in gadgets and fashion you have to look to Japan and the same goes for men’s watches. Whether you’re trying to stay on the cutting edge of watch fashion or you just want that next conversation piece at the night club these are the watches you want.

These Japanese wrist watches beautifully mix fashion and digital technology to a level not often seen in America. Using high quality materials and advanced technology, these fashionably futuristic wrist watches make use of sharp angles, negative and positive spaces and beautifully colored lights that resemble the neon signs of the Tokyo skyline.

But these watches don’t just sit there looking pretty. Replacing the traditional numbers along with the hour, minuet and second hands for digital dots, bars and lights, telling time will never be the same.

Don’t worry, you don’t have to be a member of Mensa to figure out what time it is.

Most of these men’s watches are fairly easy to tell time with by using certain colors or placement of the lights to represent the hours, minutes and seconds. It’s just a mater of learning which light bar and dot represents which time unit.

And yes, each watch comes with instructions in English explaining how to read the time and as an extra bonus, downloadable instructions are offered directly from the Tokyo Flash website along with visual examples as well. It may take some getting used to but with just a little practice, you’ll be telling time in no time.

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Ahh Twitter, such a wonderful new form of global communication, a new step in bringing the world closer together and more connected to each other.
Makes me proud to know that someone has decided to use Twitter for good instead of evil and feels the urge to use his electrical engineering abilities to create a Chair That Tweets His Farts.

If you feel the need to follow his tweets, you can do so here.

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So my friend accidentally ran over a cat for the first time the other day. Needless to say he was very disturbed over the situation and felt it would be best to get through this trying time by creating a flash re-enactment of the Kitty Crunch accident. The animation and voice sync needs a little polishing up but still pretty funny.

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A lot of people have been searching the net and asking “Who sings the song in the new Lincoln MKZ TV commercial”?  It took me a while but I was able to finally track it down online and figure Im not the only one searching so I’ll tell everyone here.

So who’s the girl singing the song in the Lincoln commercial? The band is The Shiny Toy Guns doing their cover of the 1980’s classic “Major Tom”  by Peter Schilling, which was his retelling of David Bowie’s classic 1969 song “Space Oddity”. Embeded below is the video or you can visit the Shiny Toy Guns website.

We can only hope that this full version of the song will be released as a single soon. Maybe if we get enough comments here or on their website they will listen to us.

** Update April 4 **

Looks like according to the comment below from jackstin (someone close to the source) the Shiny Toy Guns will in fact end up releasing a full version of the song! Cant wait!

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