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David Brooks claims he's a sap for Obama - Yes his argument sounds real if you pretend he has not been writing for the past three years! or even just the past one. Like all Republican's, he finds a way to savage Obama regardless of what he does - mostly when the outcome of the President's actions seems most rational. Brooks is a crock, and he knows it.

Google's primary interest seems to be Facebook, as it rolls out Google+. Maybe someday, it will make the application available to enterprise users too. Imagine all those Google Apps Education customers with their  millions of users (students - Apps for Education; Government workers - Apps for Government, and ordinary civilians - Apps for Enterprise!) who may need to keep two Google accounts just to use these features -- someone is not thinking all these through.

For years, Facebook marched on like an arrogant little child, trampling on users rights and privacy with impunity and showing zero regards for the concern of users, user groups, system administrators and analysts. For year, it had no real competition and so Mark Zuckerberg made a point to lecture us all - "who needs privacy?"

In  a few hours, it will be September 11, 2011 - 9/11/11. Ten years after the attacks that changes the World. An attack that both strengthened and weakened America. An attack that finally paved the way to Chinese supremacy - or the perception of it, as America got bogged down with two Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and had to call in favors from a collection of self-serving despots from Parviz Musharaf to Hosni Mubarak and Muahmmar Quadafi. Favors that exposed the nation to a cacophony of hypocryisy accusations.

In 2004, Google quietly upended the online battle for user attention with the roll out of Gmail - an email service that for the first time promised unlimited storage for email with the following vision " you will never have to delete a message again". Then unlimited looked like 5 GB of storage. That amount of storage jolted established email services providers out of their storage reverie ... Yahoo was selling 10 MB storage for $20 a year (and now Google is giving away 500 times that for free!), and Microsoft, through its MSN email was selling 25 MB. In short order, many established email services became essentially obsolete (include Excite) and Yahoo soon  teetered on the verge of outright collapse - many people blamed it search engine not catching on; but the problem was users suddenly had another reason not to visit Yahoo anymore or spend more time on the site.

It is common knowledge that American businesses currently hold more than two trillion dollars (yes, you heard it right, $2 trillion) on their balance sheet while the US economy continues to hemorrhage jobs while sputtering to a calamitous halt, on its way back into recession - a politically motivated and self -inflicted economic wound. The argument being bandied around by political operatives and ner-do-gooders is the lack of certainty. In a silly-season of political and economic amnesia, some respectable commentators have even latched on to the madness. Business is about risk taking. And there is no risk if there is certainty!