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A Good Closer?

"There has long been a pattern to Barack Obama’s political career on the national stage. There are moments of soaring moral clarity and inspiration; there are long periods of drift or laziness or passivity" - Huffington? The foolishness of all these so called smart political analysis, particularly ones like these that question the hardwork, gut, and leadership of this President is the assumption that all the executive orders, pronouncements, and the "Putin reeling" just happened on Christmas day! Policies usually take time to formulate and work on before they can be pronounced. As we have come to learn, the "Cuba Thaw" was more than 18 months in the making before anyone of us heard a blip about it. The sanctions on Russia started a long time ago, all the while while many in Washington where busy showing their "Putin envy", and yes, the immigration policy was held back mainly to appease a growing dissent by Democrats who were worried...

Why is identity management at Apple

  Why is identity management at Apple so confusing and bifurcated? Despite all of Apple's success in the consumer space, enterprise grade apple offerings will continue to lag behind its peers, so long as Apple continues to require four different Apple Id to use for different Apple solutions. For example, if you need to setup an Apple for Business account, you can not use any of your other apple accounts ID. To publish to iTunesConnect, you need another Apple ID. For iCloud, well your iTune store account wont work. At least these are the responses from Apple reps when I inquire about error messages I get when trying to use one Apple ID with another Apple product. Microsoft solved this problem almost a decade ago, and completed integration, even with their recent acquisition of Skype. Now you can access all Microsoft products with one ID. You just subscribe to the service you require. Google also has this down pat. You are able to access all of your Google se...

We are all racists

Racism is a human condition. Or better yet, "otherness" is. The American condition is simply exacerbated by it's scope in the face of a culture that prides individual success. Everyone wants to be distinguished, feel distinguished, even if at the expense of others - particularly, at the expense of others. Race differentials makes this easier, particularly for a class that has been impressed upon as being superior, without any consequence.