Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Blog Note To Readers For the Next Couple of Weeks
Due to business-related travel and/or Internet accessibility issues, my publication schedule may be affected (later this week or next). I may set up some scheduled posts and try to edit them with additional content from hotels, but it is possible I may not maintain my daily schedule over the near future.
Tweet of the Day
Scott Baio is a featured speaker at the Trump Convention? We've all been dying to know just what Chachi thinks. Trump can't afford the Fonz?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
Scott Baio wants us to know that Charles no longer is in charge, but the Donald is in charge and what that means for you: better TV ratings.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
I was just reading a Newsweek piece on the email kerfuffle, which attempted to categorize the attacks as hypocritical: Hillary popup ad.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
It's almost impossible for the ordinary layman to realize how misleading these Hillary Defense League rationalizations are.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
When I was attached to the NPS program studying reactor principles,I had to classify my notebook pages;I couldn't bring notes home.to study.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
In fact, most people think of security as one-way, e.g., in an airport. I found myself subject to searches going out of a secured facility.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
In some cases, things being taught had been published in the academic literature, available to scholars without clearances. It didn't matter— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
In many government facilities, you don't even have Internet access to external email servers, like gmail or yahoo. Your surfing is tracked.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
In fact, even when I was surfing for technical information on database software, I found certain URLs blocked, was occasionally questioned.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
This Newsweek pro-Hillary piece goes on to point out to suggest that government email servers in fact aren't that secure anyway.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
There is no doubt that government IT security is a work-in-progress. For example, in some cases legacy systems haven't been recently patched— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
But the idea that Clinton's home server had comparative professional, cleared personnel servicing her communications is absurd.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
But the idea that Clinton's home server had comparative professional, cleared personnel servicing her communications is absurd.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
Everyone who uses USG IT infrastructure KNOWS from training that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. Clinton's emails=fed records— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
Clinton in charge of her emails was like a fox in charge of the henhouse. Clinton has repeatedly, on the record, lied and mislead on emails— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
Clinton put her personal priorities over the security interests of the United States. She lied, not unlike Bill misled a judge over Lewinsky— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
Just like Bill Clinton, Hillary has sacrificed her integrity in the pursuit of political ambition. She is unworthy of being POTUS.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
Many of the Celebrity Apprentice alumni have backed Trump. But not Penn Jillette. Trump, being the petty bastard he is, has counterattacked.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
Trump has tweeted how he relished "firing" the atheist "Jillette". He has taken cheap shot at Jillette's professional efforts.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
Jillette would never been on Trump's reality show series if he had not already been an established celebrity entertainer on his own— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
Reason recently posted a piece on well-known libertarians asked to choose who is WORSE: Clinton or Trump. No contest: Trump. Not unanimous.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
This has nothing to do with endorsing Clinton's economically criminal policies or her foreign policy disasters. It has more to do with Trump— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
Trump is just so radically anti-trade, anti-immigrant; even on foreign policy, he is a wildcard who criticizes Iraq but talks aggression.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
Penn Jillette has a great tweet, where he says he always assumed the major candidates were better informed and no one worse than Hillary.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
Clinton is a "normal" leftist; we know her policies are bad for America, but she's more predictable and can be opposed, like Obama.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
Trump really isn't principled beyond his political ambition. He is remarkably uninformed across the whole of public policy and is impulsive— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 17, 2016
#CantForTheLifeOfMe figure out why some people keep voting for Dems. It's like others constantly throwing money down the drain playing lotto— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 18, 2016
Image of the Day@seanhannity @newtgingrich @realDonaldTrump You're like a dying man in the desert seeing an oasis. Orange Fascism will die.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 18, 2016
How Financial Regulators Kill Economic Growth
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Michael Jackson (with Siedah Garrett), "I Just Can't Stop Loving You". I remember the mad obsession with Jackson's follow-up to Thriller, Bad. I seem to recall this first track got leaked. While, Michael would never repeat the stunning commercial success of the former, the latter had more (5) #1's, including this track and also had 7 top hits, only one track (Another Part of Me) falling just outside the Top 10. Between 1983 and 1988, Jackson had 8 #1 hits and 15 Top 10 hits, an astounding period of pop dominance. What I didn't realize was Streisand and Houston passed up the opportunity to sing the duet.
