Thank you Amazon for helping to start the revolution!

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Whether you are saving up for your childs education or are trying to pay down your current student loans - Upromise is a free way to give you a little boost. It is free money, people! Well I guess I should call it "free" money because you still have to spend money to earn it - but the money you earn is off of products and services you likely would have bought anyway.

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That sinking feeling comes again... "I am in over my head with credit card debt"... and you feel like there is no way to get out of this deep hole. Maybe it keeps you up at night and occupies your mind for hours during the day. What can you do to get rid of this feeling? Well, the first thing you need to do is get rid of the cause - the debt.

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I am all about boycotting any company that doesn’t feel ethical to me. I was happy boycotting Taco Bell—a restaurant with lots of vegetarian options that I love so much—when they didn’t pay their tomato workers fairly. Boycotting Kimberly-Clark until they agreed to get their materials from another source rather than the old growth forests they were helping decimate. While I hate that companies don’t always act out of their own conscience and it takes us refusing to buy from them—and giving them bad press—to get them to make ethical changes, I do love that we, as consumers, do have the power to help things change.

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August 5 marks a very silly, frivolous, and fabulous holiday—National Underwear Day! Whether or not you think our undergarments are in need of their own holiday, the fact remains that there are endless possibilities for celebrating such a day, such as…

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThough the Breakthrough Institute’s annual activist boot camp is over, it’s still possible to get in on some of the learning that occurred there. Based around the Breakthrough Institute’s core values of imagination, integrity, and audacity, the boot camp offered ten activists the chance to learn about political issues in terms of national security, energy, or climate. The activists were able to do so with the support of staff, completing projects throughout July. Their lessons were based on a curriculum outline that is available online, here, for anyone who wishes to follow it. The syllabus is also available at the site.

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Medical School

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Cooking with Thor, guest starring Hercules and Dionysus. Thor attempts to cook salmon and a cake for his daughter.

Housing discrimination knows no bounds.

We’ve heard a lot of stories about people who could not afford them getting loans—especially from sources who knew they could not afford them and misled them to believe they could. But more and more stories about home loan discrimination—just as disturbing, if not even moreso—are coming to light, making us wonder just who in hell these lenders think they are.

We’ve heard about people being denied homes on basis of skin color, gender, sexual orientation, and more. We’ve been hearing some pretty horrific—and heartbreaking—stories across the country of people who could afford their “American dream” but had it denied simply because the lending company didn’t like them for who they were. Illegal? In most cases. Still being done? You bet.

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