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Come Together - MJ
Witty Title
Finally, a site that won't make you sick and kill you.
Rescue Reel lets you exit buildings Batman-style…
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When Batman needs to get out of a skyscraper, he doesn’t take the stairs or the elevator. No, he rappels down the building. And now you too can leave your next board meeting like a superhero.
The Rescue Reel is designed to help people evacuate tall buildings during emergencies, but I don’t see why it has to be emergency-only. You basically hop into the one-size-fits-all harness, attach the anchor and head out the window. The automatically controller centrifugal brake will keep you from going down too fast, and you’ll land on the ground in style. Just like Batman.
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Nice
Headed down to Winston-Salem, NC for my brother’s Wake Forest graduation. VPOTUS is the commencement speaker. Should be interesting.
“Since Reagan’s, Bush’s, Clinton’s, and Bush’s serial deregulations of the financial services sector, however, bankers became fabulously rich. They called themselves the “Masters of the Universe.” They came to dominate contributions to politicians, and facilitated the takeover of most major US newspapers, all the while using debt as their mail tool to make money (burdening those newspapers with such debt that many are now going out of business because they can’t repay it). By 2005, fully 40 percent of all corporate profits in the US came from the financial services sector – a group of people who didn’t produce anything at all of value, nothing edible or usable, nothing that would survive into future generations. They invented fancy derivative “products” that they “sold” at high commission rates around the world so others could “make money with money.” In fact, they weren’t making money – they were taking money. Behavior that would have been criminal during the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations became “normal” and was even encouraged: more than half of all the graduates from many of America’s top colleges and universities went into finance so they could get in on the very lucrative scam.”
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Thom Hartmann (via azspot) (via marco)
Financial products are not tangible, but that doesn’t mean they’re of no value. In all likelihood, a convertible-debt instrument is keeping this beloved blogging platform up and running. The linked post is an example of sensationalism at its worst. (And no, I do not work in finance).
“ThunderCats has a great story, endearing characters, action, adventure, space-travel, and fantasy. It will be an honor to run it into the ground.”
And that was the morning we knew for sure that western culture had irrevocably ceased.
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Duran Duran - A View to a Kill
It’s just that kind of day
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secrectary
For Immediate Release
March 19, 2009 PRESS GAGGLE BY
DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY BILL BURTON
Aboard Air Force One
En Route Washington, D.C.
6:30 P.M. PDT
MR. BURTON: Good afternoon. The President made an offhand remark making fun of his own bowling that was in no way intended to disparage the Special Olympics. He thinks that the Special Olympics are a wonderful program that gives an opportunity to shine to people with disabilities from around the world.
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