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Why I support Bernie Sanders for president of the United States (2016)

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I support Bernie Sanders for president because I believe the Sanders plans for a better future are most in line with what personally matters to me as a middle class mom of two teens, one of which has a severe peanut allergy , who is also now in college. I firmly believe his solutions are not only most in line with what matters to me but actually make the most sense.  Here's why: I know he will  fight the pharmaceutical corruption driving up the high medical costs of caring for a kid with a severe peanut allergy: Including outrageous costs of life-saving epi pens.  I know he will fight global warming alongside really protecting our public health! This is very important to me. He will change laws which now put big biz in charge of pretty much everything. He will fight for those of us who are not billionaires.  I know he deeply cares about lowering the cost of eduction.  Right now my child's in her first year of college and she slaved to get her scholarships. How

When Satan is the Easter Bunny

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WORST EASTER BUNNIES EVER Videos of kids  freaked by Easter Bunny at end.  First Place  Second Place THIRD PLACE FOURTH PLACE I FELT THERE SHOULDN'T BE JUST ONE 4TH PLACE. FOURTH PLACE FOURTH PLACE FOURTH PLACE FOURTH PLACE FOURTH PLACE   FOURTH PLACE FOURTH PLACE VIDEO CONTEST! KIDS MOST FREAKED BY EASTER BUNNY FIRST PLACE: BEST EASTER BUNNY  SECOND PLACE SCARY EASTER BUNNY THIRD PLACE SCARY EASTER BUNNY HONORABLE MENTIONS -- END OF POST

Herge's heart would break for Brussels, today. Je suis Herge. Je suis Brussels.

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Space Oddity (cover and patchwork film) Film and vocals by Juliet Larsen

Produced and performed by Juliet Larsen  @GalPal Talent, New York, N.Y. Space Oddity (cover and patchwork film) from Juliet Larsen on Vimeo .

Meet Gaelynn Lea, the winner of NPR's 2016 Tiny Desk Contest: Haunting, beautiful music

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And The Winner Of The 2016 Tiny Desk Contest Is ... Gaelynn is a 32-year-old classically trained fiddler whose music is steeped in Celtic tradition and American fiddle tunes. Her fiddle style is shaped by those traditions but also the challenge she has, playing an instrument that is almost as large as she is. Gaelynn was born with brittle bone disease, a congenital disability that makes playing the violin tucked tightly under the chin not a comfortable option. Instead she plays it upright, as a cellist might. In the original tune she submitted, "Someday We'll Linger in the Sun," Gaelynn creates a beautiful droning loop with her JamMan Express loop pedal and after a moody minute begins to sing a yearning tale of life's preciousness and time's constant ticking and why we should always care. "Don't tell me we've got time / the subtle thief of life / it slips away when we pay no mind," she sings in a somewhat childlike and haunting voice. She e