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What A Time To Be Alive!

February 27, 2015February 27, 2015

BUT FIRST: A REALITY CHECK

The President’s approval rating is back down to 43% — never mind that the American Ebola death toll has peaked (at zero), job growth’s healthy, the deficit’s down by two-thirds, health care inflation’s at a 50-year low . . . and on and on and on.  (“By any standard,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell assures us, “Barack Obama has been a disaster for our country.”)

But do you know what?

President Reagan’s approval rating at this same time in his second term was also 43%.

And George W. Bush’s was . . . 33%.  And that was before the economy collapsed on his watch.

Just saying.

Meanwhile . . .

A PLANE LARGER THAN A FOOTBALL FIELD

Largest plane in the world with a wingspan substantially wider than a football field.

And it flies!

MEDICAL HOLOGRAMS

Surgeons holding hearts in their hands . . .

. . . holographically!

https://vimeo.com/92807000

Stay tuned, kids: it gets more amazing every day.

 

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