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I’ve worked in professionally for a large discount retailer in the systems, networking, security, and programming arenas for the last 20+ years, much of it in leadership or management roles. My resume is here. More versions of it as well as more information in general, can be found here.

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Jihadi jetset…

How traumatic for Al-Zawahiri:

It’s so hard to live in the shade of the master.

Seriously, this is a snip of Google’s “Top Stories” as presented by RSS. Do we really care about the veritable “social status” of our so-called enemies? Are we really so sophomoric as to need to rank and compare terrorists [...]

OPEC weighs in…

OPEC is voting Republican this election:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110608/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_opec_meeting

Oil prices go up, economy goes down, Obama’s polls go down, chances of a Republican win go up.

I can’t in all honesty say this is the intention (I can pretty much categorically say it isn’t), but it is the net effect and, when you think [...]

Snookered…

I will admit I got snookered by Edwards – he certainly talked a better game than his opponents, supporting among other things, a true single payer system. Granted I had no illusions that he wasn’t ultimately a slimy politician, but clearly I didn’t catch just how slimy (ie: compromised) he was.

Mea culpas aside, I [...]

And we should listen to Moody’s why?

From an AP report today:

A credit rating agency is warning the U.S. government that it could lose its sterling debt rating if Congress and the Obama administration don’t reach an agreement to raise the nation’s borrowing limit.

Moody’s Investors Service said Thursday that if the parties fail to make progress soon, it would put [...]