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Adam Lambert ’s Pick U Up – music video for a song from his album, For Your Entertainment : ) Also watch the video response for updated lyrics!
—This visual/typographical interpretation was completed as the final project of an introductory After Effects class at NYIT, Fall 2009 (Prof. Brian Walsh).
—Do check out Adam Lambert’s album “For Your Entertainment” – it’s eclectic, unique, and reveals interesting layers with every listen.
Thanks for viewing my vid : )

Full lyrics:
Jumpin’ out the window
Movin’ on, groovin’ on
Which way will the wind blow?
We can’t be wrong, so say “So long.”
Imma pick you up, Imma pick you up
Whatya you tryin’ to say to me?
Catch the train out to what you’re tryin’ to do
Are you gonna play with me?

All my life, I’ve been waiting
Passed my time, procrastinating now
It’s a trip, on a flip
And flash right through the scene
Can’t you see what I mean?

Breaking through the boundaries
Rollin’ on, strollin’ on
They won’t ever find me
And after all, we’ll have a ball
Imma pick u up, Imma pick u up
We’re gonna see where we can go
This is how I live, this is what I give
And you’re the one I want to know

All my life, I’ve been waiting
Pass my time, procrastinating now
Its a trip on a flip
And flash right through the scene
Can’t you see what I mean?

Tiny minded two-toned suckers
Same old faces make me shudder
Countless times I’ve screamed oh brother!
Where are you? I need someone to be my lover

All my life, I’ve been waiting
Passed my time, procrastinating now
It’s a trip on a flip
And flash right through the scene
Can’t you see what I mean?

Its a trip on a flip
And flash right through the scene
Can’t you see what I mean?

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“The government is bailing out the banks…but who’s going to bail out the government?” asks Texas cotton farmer Ken Gallaway, a vocal critic of agricultural subsidies that cost U.S. taxpayers and consumers billions of dollars a year in direct payments and higher prices for farm goods.

Agricultural subsidies were put in place in the 1930s during the Great Depression, when 25 percent of Americans lived on farms. At the time, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace called them “a temporary solution to deal with an emergency.” Those programs are still in place today, even though less than 1 percent of Americans currently live on farms that are larger, more efficient, and more productive than ever before.

Consider these facts. Ninety percent of all subsidies go to just five crops: corn, rice, cotton, wheat, and soybeans. Two thirds of all farm products—including perishable fruits and vegetables—receive almost no subsidies. And just 10 percent of recipients receive 75 percent of all subsidies. A program intended to be a temporary solution has become one of our governments most glaring examples of corporate welfare.

U.S. taxpayers arent the only ones who pay the price. Cotton subsidies, for example, encourage overproduction which lowers the world price of cotton. Thats great for people who buy cotton, but its disastrous for already impoverished cotton farmers in places such as West Africa.

U.S. farm programs cost taxpayers billions each year, significantly raise the price of commodities such as sugar (which is protected from competition from other producers in other countries), undermine world trade agreements, and contribute to the suffering of poor farmers around the world. Its bad public policy, especially in these troubled economic times.

“Agricultural Subsidies: Corporate Welfare for Farmers” is hosted by Reason.tv’s Nick Gillespie and is approximately 8.30 minutes long. The producer-writer is Paul Feine and the producer-editor is Roger Richards.

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Livestock Marketing Association’s 45th annual World Livestock Auctioneer Championship came to Turlock for the first round of of competition that culminates in Durant, Oklahoma, in 2008.

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