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09 Baby Come Home 03 Keep Your Shoes 07 Inevitable 09 Only The Horses 04 Year of Living Dangerously 07 Let's Have A Kiki 05 Shady Love 05 San Luis Obispo 08 Self Control 07 Best In Me 05 The Secret Life of Letters 09 Somewhere 03 f*** Yeah

Leaked...not good imo :/ How can they go from such a stellar album like Night Work where EVERY track was at least good to mostly forgettable tracks.

Hot Chip are one of those bands who I never quite "love" in terms of albums (bar The Warning, but even then I just freakin' love Over and Over, Boys From School, and The Warning—the rest is solid but I'm not head over heals for it) but I always find consistently good. This track is really nice, fun. Kind of excited to hear this record. o: Though tbh Joe Goddard's Gabriel is easily my favorite Hot Chip related song in years.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to combat people not reviewing? There were quite a few last time if I can remember. Maybe if you had to rank each song instead and maybe just provide a simple sentence rather than requiring a word count? Less intimidating, sort of adds a sort of competitive element (like "who liked their mix the most" or something even if that isn't the point), maybe requiring people to guess whose mix they have. . .

Literally no idea what to send to this ~_~ edit: Jk may have just found something o:

Aww, I was hoping Purity Ring would score me my 7th win (or at least get my 5th or 9th place so I can FINALLY have finished every place in the top 10...if anything 7th place for the 7th time lololol), but I'm of course happy with 3rd. Luv yall. I'm also pleasantly surprised at the quality of the top 10 :o

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Their best album, easily (glad they've finally embraced "pop" because they've always just been a pop band basically). Still not hugely impressed tho~ (Move in the Right Direction + Get a Job + Into the Wild are my favorites).

It's been quite a while since the last...would there be interest in another soon?

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Sadly this isn't entirely true. I know a lot of "liberal" people (or people who claim to be liberal) who are still opposed to gay marriage. I think a lot of it has to do with how much of a problem this country has with hegemonic masculinity. Supporting gay marriage, even in 2012, is still seen as a weak, feminine act. Mitt is no doubt going to use this as an opportunity to showcase his "masculinity/"strength" and definitely try to gain straight male voters as well as religious voters. I have no doubt that this was totally a tactical move (the timing, the wording of everything, etc.) but aren't all actions on the campaign trail the same? I think it's important to be critical, but at the same time I'm still very thankful. This will definitely lose him votes from some straight liberal men and straight on-the-fence men (as well as gain some too no doubt)...it's hard to tell exactly what effect it will have honestly. Still, any civil rights movement that has been supported by a president has then gone on to be passed into law. I'm still pretty exciting about it all.

Best odds since Charli XCX, fingers c r o s s e d

I Kissed a Girl Tik Tok can't really think of anything else (Shark in the Water? not really a hit and she already had released her other singles)

Beez in the Trap is easily one of the best songs this year

I was hoping Obedear would get a video before finals. ): O WELL

I guarantee this will be used in some Disney movie or a commercial very soon (probably for some "green" alternative/something outdoors-y)

:wub: can't wait for season 5 crazy how parks and recreation has managed to make a comedy show so emotional and so fulfilling. you genuinely care about these characters

I just finished season one argajirgiahgureagisthrshtrdfgdg

"Wild" :wub:

My odds are all OVER the place but I am in it 2 win it ~*

It's definitely a catch 22, but I foresee this bringing in more supporters / bringing back that 2008-vibe he had moreso than it will hurt him. He definitely has the youth on his side. Either way, this is pretty big news. He's the first president to ever support same-sex marriage.

President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president. In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president described his thought process as an “evolution” that led him to this place, based on conversations with his own staff members, openly gay and lesbian service members, and conversations with his wife and own daughters. “I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married,” Obama told Roberts, in an interview to appear on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday. Excerpts of the interview will air tonight on ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer.” The president stressed that this is a personal position, and that he still supports the concept of states deciding the issue on their own. But he said he’s confident that more Americans will grow comfortable with gays and lesbians getting married, citing his own daughters’ comfort with the concept. “It’s interesting, some of this is also generational,” the president continued. “You know when I go to college campuses, sometimes I talk to college Republicans who think that I have terrible policies on the economy, on foreign policy, but are very clear that when it comes to same sex equality or, you know, sexual orientation that they believe in equality. They are much more comfortable with it. You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.” Roberts asked the president if First Lady Michelle Obama was involved in this decision. Obama said she was, and he talked specifically about his own faith in responding. “This is something that, you know, we’ve talked about over the years and she, you know, she feels the same way, she feels the same way that I do. And that is that, in the end the values that I care most deeply about and she cares most deeply about is how we treat other people and, you know, I, you know, we are both practicing Christians and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it’s also the Golden Rule, you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated. And I think that’s what we try to impart to our kids and that’s what motivates me as president and I figure the most consistent I can be in being true to those precepts, the better I’ll be as a as a dad and a husband and hopefully the better I’ll be as president.” Previously, Obama has moved in the direction of supporting same-sex marriage but has consistently stopped short of outright backing it. Instead, he’s voiced support for civil unions for gay and lesbian couples that provide the rights and benefits enjoyed by married couples, though not defined as “marriage.” At the same time, the president has opposed efforts to ban gay marriage at the state level, saying that he did not favor attempts to strip rights away from gay and lesbian couples. The president’s position became a flashpoint this week, when Vice President Joe Biden pronounced himself “absolutely comfortable” with allowing same-sex couples to wed. Obama aides insisted there was no daylight between the positions held by the president and his vice president when it comes to legal rights, but as other prominent Democrats also weighed in in favor of gay marriage, the disconnect became difficult for the White House to explain away. The announcement completes a turnabout for the president, who has opposed gay marriage throughout his career in national politics. In 1996, as a state Senate candidate, he indicated support for gay marriage in a questionnaire, but Obama aides later disavowed it and said it did not reflect the candidate’s position. In 2004, as a candidate for the US Senate, he cited his own religion in framing his views: “I’m a Christian. I do believe that tradition and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman.” He maintained that position through his 2008 presidential campaign, and through his term as president, until today. As president in 2010, Obama told ABC’s Jake Tapper that his feelings about gay marriage were “constantly evolving. I struggle with this.” A year later, the president told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, “I’m still working on it.” “I probably won’t make news right now, George,” Obama said in October 2011. “But I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.” Obama’s decision has political connotations for the fall. The issue divides elements of the Democratic base, with liberals and gay-rights groups eager to see the president go farther, but with gay marriage far less popular among African-American voters. Just yesterday, in North Carolina, voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on gay marriage. President Obama carried North Carolina in 2008, and its status as a 2012 battleground was guaranteed by Democrats’ decision to hold their convention in Charlotte this summer. Obama’s likely Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, opposes gay marriage, and fought his state’s highest court when Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage in 2004, when Romney was governor. Romney said on the campaign trail Monday that he continues to oppose gay marriage. “My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman,” Romney said. “That’s the position I’ve had for some time, and I don’t intend to make any adjustments at this point. … Or ever, by the way.” http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/...to-get-married/ - - - - "KEWL"

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