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Author: Rob
It’s that date again. I’ll attempt to offer something that if you didn’t know, you should: the story of a man named Rick Rescorla. Rescorla was VP of security at Morgan Stanley’s office in the World Trade center. Even *before* the 1993 bombing, he was convinced the towers were a prime target for terrorism, and even went so far as to urge the company to relocate. Leadership refused. So he created a detailed evacuation plan for the company’s twenty-two floors of offices, and conducted repeated drills – making a royal pain in the ass of himself. After the first plane hit, he called his friend & security consultant Dan Hill: ————- Rescorla came back on the phone. “Pack a bag and get up here,” he said. “You can be my consultant again.” He added that the Port Authority was telling him not to evacuate and to order people to stay at their desks. “What’d you say?” Hill asked. “I said, ‘Piss off, you son of a bitch,’ ” Rescorla replied. “Everything above where that plane hit is going to collapse, and it’s going to take the whole building with it. I’m getting my people the fuck out of here.” Then he said, “I got to go. Get your shit in one basket and get ready to come up.” ————- Rescorla was last seen on the tenth floor of the south tower, heading upwards, searching for anyone still left behind. Including Rescorla, thirteen Morgan Stanley employees were killed that day. Because of Rescorla, two thousand six hundred and eighty-seven Morgan Stanley employees (2,687) made it out safely.
The Real Heroes Are Dead – The New Yorker via http://ift.tt/1J2D8mh
How can you not love this guy?
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I’m beginning my exploration o’ the Foo Fighters at long last for realz. This is the top-viewed video on YouTube for them. Whoah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozAmXo2bDE And Grohl responded (spoiler: they said ‘yes’): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txEUgZR-luU
Learn to Fly – Foo Fighters Rockin1000 Official Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozAmXo2bDE
Deep wisdom dropped from the soon-to-be Democratic nominee for President of these United States.
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Word fail, and I’m reduced to repeated *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk* … “Huma Abedin, Clinton’s former deputy chief of staff, forwarded a summary of a high-level Sept. 2009 meeting to Clinton in which she detailed the “embassy security issues” that were discussed.” Sending the details of the embassy security problems we’ve identified but not fixed over an unsecured network. Swell! *headdesk* “Now-retired Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns sent Hillary an e-mail with data that was classified during the review of her cache. Burns apparently sent it on a web-based e-mail service, because the footer has an ad for Free Credit Report. An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! Clearly, this is not a secure method of communications, and yet Hillary replies to it while also tossing in sensitive information, now classified, as an afterthought at the end of the reply.” *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*
Classified Hillary e-mail contained embassy security issues
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Ruh-roh. Narrative fail… —————————————— In the small fraction of emails made public so far, Reuters has found at least 30 email threads from 2009, representing scores of individual emails, that include what the State Department’s own “Classified” stamps now identify as so-called ‘foreign government information.’ The U.S. government defines this as any information, written or spoken, provided in confidence to U.S. officials by their foreign counterparts. This sort of information, which the department says Clinton both sent and received in her emails, is the only kind that must be “presumed” classified, in part to protect national security and the integrity of diplomatic interactions, according to U.S. regulations examined by Reuters. “It’s born classified,” said J. William Leonard, a former director of the U.S. government’s Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO). Leonard was director of ISOO, part of the White House’s National Archives and Records Administration, from 2002 until 2008, and worked for both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. “If a foreign minister just told the secretary of state something in confidence, by U.S. rules that is classified at the moment it’s in U.S. channels and U.S. possession,” he said in a telephone interview, adding that for the State Department to say otherwise was “blowing smoke.”
Exclusive: Dozens of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest via http://ift.tt/1LmzkAE
A sport? No. S*** there’s no way I could ever do? Yes.
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Two serious questions for my left-leaning (D) friends: 1. Can any of you honestly say you don’t believe a felony has been committed here (violation of 18USC1924 regarding handling of classified material)? And if so, can you explain the logic to me? I am *not* interested in argument by analogy (i.e. “when are you going to ask about [insert (R) politician/public figure]’s [insert dubious action here]). 2. What’s your honest opinion of Hillary’s capabilities as a political candidate? Because even trying to view it without bias, in my assessment her performance at the presser linked below was just… appalling. She’s had months to prepare for these questions; she knows they are coming… and this is the best she can do? Forget right/wrong, policies, etc.: do you think she’s good enough at the actual game of politics to win?
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Just gonna leave this here.
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I am definitely going to have to pay more attention to Foo Fighters. This is awesome on so many levels…
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It’s late, so time for some NSFW superhero movie trailer action! I’m not the real comic geek ( Bob Stavrou, I’m looking at you) but I dabble. I give you the man, the myth, the legend…
Deadpool | Red Band Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyKWUTwSYAs
Attention all planets of the Solar Federation…
Rush 2112 Finale Irvine Meadows R40 UHD via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbIvaT6J-rI
Fun with my three little men — a full day!
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I didn’t make it myself, but a good time was had by my colleagues…!
Technossus at Comic-Con: A Sea of Fun-loving, Nerdy Humanity | Technossus via http://hubs.ly/H010sf20
I can’t say I was really there a lot, but it was a definitive landmark & I had more than a few good times…
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the quite likely next President of the United States. Fair warning: THIS CANNOT BE UNSEEN.
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Do not mess with Lucasfilm / Disney. They made an entire [Expanded] universe disappear.
The Internet liked Amy Schumer’s ‘Star Wars’ photoshoot. ‘Star Wars’ did not. via http://on.mash.to/1Kd7kl7
I am sure there will be absolutely nothing about the fundamental premise or specific questions involved here that would possibly elicit any reaction from my beloved Facebook friends…
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