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Whinin', lyin' Donald Trump insists that the nomination process is rigged against him. In fact, he has more delegates than his vote share.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
For all the fuss that is being made about Democratic superdelegates (which largely favor Clinton, with good reason), no such buffer in GOP.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
GOP candidates down ballot have every reason to fear a Trumpocalypse this fall with Clinton widening her consistent head-to-head poll wins.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
Why woulldn't local/state officials/candidates across government have a say in the federal government because federal policy impacts states?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
Trump wants to rewrite the rules to accommodate his own strategy. It's his fault that he's been losing squirmishes at state conventions.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
I hope that the American people, through charity and volunteer efforts, contribute to as needed relief efforts. https://t.co/bgy7ANHvED— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
@SecretsBedard @wwwCISorg @dcexaminer Don't use "illegals" as a pejorative. This program is conceptually similar to Eisenhower's program.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
Donald Trump tomorrow has perhaps his only chance to win a simple majority of votes. If he can't make it here, he can't make it anywhere, NY— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
I've been in NYC a few times, the last for an MIS academic conference.I just feel a bit claustrophic walking in the middle of a surging mass— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
I last visited NY in 2008, Long Island (Peter King territory). I was working for a university software publisher, conducting training.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
Not a fun gig, including a client employee with a narcolepsy problem.The community college had a policy of maintaining active student status— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
So if you took a class in 1982 and never graduated, our software generated new records every subsequent semester.It resulted in very big DB.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
Here's the point: the state DBAs backing up the databases came back and told me they only had backup space for a smaller DB, no recent copy.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
The reason I mention this story is that it perfectly illustrates the Procrustean mindset of govt bureaucrats.Obsolete backups are irrelevant— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
I had no authority to change product design or client policies. I don't think this open status policy was relevant for most clients.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
A classic case of shooting the messenger. I do think the clients ended up adjusting their policy, and the issue was reported to Development.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
Michelle Fields suggests the prosecutor who dropped the battery charge against Lewandowski had a vested interest with Trump's businesses.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
It reminds me of the fact when I left UTEP, they stole over $4000 in retirement money from me,breach of contract.But I couldn't find lawyer— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
All the lawyers I talked to wanted future crumbs from the table of the UT System.It's corrupt, unethical. I had to eat the loss, move on.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
Eric Erickson, a prominent conservative blogger perhaps best known this year for disinviting Trump to a RedState event, is hospitalized.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
Erickson is recovering from a serious lung condition. My thoughts and prayers. Heaven knows what abuse he puts up from the Trump cultists.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
I don't mean to make light of a narcolepsy issue; one of my colleagues from my first IT job in San Antonio had it. But none of my students.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
Let's just say in 8 years of college teaching MIS, you sometimes have to slog your way through a lot of abstract, difficult material.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
I have a dry sense of humor (e.g., yesterday's tweet about Cruz' selling his Canadian birthright for Campbell's soup--re. Jacob, Esau).— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
One of my ways of coping with the tedium of presenting course material was to insert humor along the way. It was like I was a Red Eye comic.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
So one or 2 students would catch on and start laughing maybe 30 seconds after I made the joke and moved on; the other students were confused— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
I remember at one work team meeting, an HR person was talking to us about a St. Patrick Day potluck and bringing food with green.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
So I say, just loud enough for people seated next to me, "That's easy: I'll just grab something from the back of my fridge." (Not really.)— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
The Indian Oracle developer colleague to my left all of a sudden starts laughing loudly and convulsively;the HR lady is confused;he retells.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
I probably would stink at stand up comedy, sort of like Jeb Bush saying, "Please laugh." When I have to explain my jokes,the moment's passed— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
One of my favorite geek jokes I think comes from a Lynne Markus book I own, a variation of the MIT legend behind "it's a feature, not a bug"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
I'm almost as bad as Obama in retelling a joke.(I've laughed telling it in class.) The story is the university was testing a vendor compiler— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
It turns out if you forgot an END card at the end of the program deck (something that a student programmer might do),it resulted in erasures— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
MIT reported the problem and then retested on the next product version. To their shock, the problem wasn't fixed. They looked at the manual.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
The documentation read, "You would normally expect to pay for an eraser utility. We provide one at no extra cost. Few cards needed."— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
@MarkSKrikorian Most liberty-loving people do not want busybody bastards trying to interfere with the natural right to migrate.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
My thoughts and prayers to the victims and families of the latest public transit terror attack in Jerusalem. Stop the war on God's children!— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
Don't vote over 65 #TheseCandidatesIn4Words— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
@Trumpbart Says the man whose businesses went bankrupt four times and stiffed his vendors, creditors and investors.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 18, 2016
T-Shirt of the Day: For those cultists who want to visit his honeymoon spots in the USSR pic.twitter.com/P1SWVRBdjg— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 19, 2016
Image of the DayJFK is not welcome in today's Democratic Party, pic.twitter.com/561AQgc8RK— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 19, 2016
Political Whores and Climate Change Alarmism
Two Conservative Icons At First Acton Institute Dinner
High Likelihood One of These Men Will Win My Vote This Fall
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Rod Stewart, "Reason To Believe". Probably my favorite Stewart tune, which was on the other side of Rod's signature tune single, "Maggie May". (His unplugged version years later actually did better, hitting Top 20.) This is a song written by folk singer Tim Hardin, also known for "If I Were a Carpenter". There are other versions, including the Carpenters, which I felt were overproduced. Tim's own original cover, available on Youtube, is plainly arranged but very effective. I just think Rod Stewart's iconic raspy vocals just fit the lyrics like a glove, and the bluesy arrangement complements the performance beautifully.
I don't know if Rod ever covered Patti LaBelle's "If You Asked Me To" (by Diane Warren), but I've imagined singing a male interpretation of the tune with a drink in my hand and smoking a cigarette (and I don't drink or smoke). Yes, I know Celine also had a more successful cover years later. By the way, in Patti's video, she is wearing black; one of her sisters had recently died. (All 3 sisters and her best friend died by their early 40's from different forms of cancer (lung, colon, brain, and breast).)
