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A Horror That Won’t Stop
fter the latest shooting
that occurred in Or- lando Saturday night, where 50 people were killed and 53 more were injured inside of a nightclub, I think it goes without saying that sense- less, large scale, violence is officially a part of the new normal. And, with that being the current case, even enter- taining the notion that any city or town is safe from the carnage should be consid- ered foolish thinking.
Each time one of these in- cidents transpires I can't help but get the feeling that someone is trying desper- ately to film new footage for the Faces of Death videos that were so popular back in the 1980s. The tragic images appear so frequently across our television screens that they seem to form a never ending reel of doom and gloom.
This time around, the per- petrator was Omar Ma-
teen, an alleged ISIS sympa- thizer from Port St. Lucie, Florida. While his Arabic moniker fits the profile of what many expect when word of this type of event takes place, he could have just as well gone by such all- American appellations as Dylan Roof, Adam Lanza or James Holmes. Three other mass shooters from places like Charleston, S.C., New Town, Connecticut and Aurora, Colorado, who also snatched the attention of the world through unspeakable villainy.
The faces of these lunatics are as interchangeable as their demented deeds. Switch them around and the headlines would remain the same: "A DERANGED GUN- MAN, WITH NOTHING ELSE BETTER TO DO WITH HIS MISERABLE LIFE, KILLS INNOCENT PEOPLE JUST BECAUSE."
Of course, there are those
who will try to make sense of this tragedy or find some- thing else to blame, whether it's too lax gun-control, Islam inspired terrorism, the con- sumption of pill form nar- cotics or even the C.I.A.'s infamous MK-ULTRA mind controlling program. But the thing is, while each of these scenarios could be plausible causes, they all come second to the main culprit responsi- ble for what we're witness- ing... The moral decay of our society and the complete madness that has arisen as a direct result.
Even if you take away all of the guns and exterminate all of the terrorists, this de- structive factor of the equa- tion, which continuously causes the weak-minded to go over the edge, will con- tinue to exist.
And, unfortunately, that means, regardless of what we do or what new laws are im- plemented, those deter- mined to do us harm will always find an avenue to in- flict just as much damage.
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Hillary Clinton: Destiny Meets History
he is not the first woman to try-on-for-size the shoes
of the most powerful leader on the face of the world. But for one reason or another, others all fell short . . . except for one final individual who historians will proba- bly take the next century to fathom why she was the cho- sen one. Her name is Hillary Rodham Clinton, and if she wins this upcoming election, she will become the first fe- male President of the United States of America and the
most powerful woman on the face of the earth.
And we who have already lived to see one miracle (the two-time election of a Black man as Chief Executive) pri- vately cannot believe our prophetic fortune. Whether Hillary Clinton wins or not, the prospects of an America, grown in one century from the Stone Age to the Space Age and evolved in little more than one hundred years from a chattel slavery-republic to a land represented ably by a Black and Democratic hand is dizzying to the intellect and
exhilarating to the spirit.
So, why not celebrate a giant step forward made tear-
fully-yet-intently by an American Sister who has shown she too, has true grit as well as genuine grace.
Win, lose, or draw, let the word go forth: Hillary Clin- ton owes no man anything.
Who Is The Cloud
he cloud is not a mys-
tery of things appear- ing and disappearing or the grinding wheels of a super computer. We sometimes talk about the cloud as if it is a real person. The truth is the cloud is a network of servers. The network is on a grand scale with thousands, maybe even millions, of remote computers as no one knows the exact amount.
These servers have re- mote functions as well as other important usages. The main servers use the com- puting power to run applica- tions or deliver a service when we need it. When we upload a picture to face book or access Google docs we are in essence accessing the key functions of the cloud.
Depending on our needs some providers provide ac- cess to the services of the cloud for free, while others, such as Amazon, demand a subscription once a year to watch movies, play games,
etc.
Businesses have made
conscious decisions to move their services to the cloud. They see a means of saving money and generating extra revenue. Small companies in the past were forced to buy their own hardware equip- ment. Equipment can be very expensive and then value of which would depreciate over time.
For instance small busi- nesses no longer have to pur- chase hardware to back up huge amounts of company data. Automatic backups will streamline data directly to the cloud.
However, with the popu- larity of the cloud, compa- nies only have to pay for what they need. Carbonite is one of the most popular backup services on the mar- ket that takes full advantage of the cloud.
Over 500 million people use dropbox. The service works from your desktop
computer that lets you easily store files on the Internet, send them to others, and synchronize them across your laptop, phone, and tablet. The remote servers hold billions of files daily and run exclusively to provide a service on a sophisticated wide area network connected by millions of switches and modems.
The race is on for the amount of subscribers hitch- ing to the cloud daily. An es- timate in the next four years, cloud computing will be pushing cloud computing to $200 billion of market share. Google and Microsoft and Amazon lead the way with their own cloud services. Amazon and Google and Mi- crosoft have played it smart by offering inexpensive serv- ices to attract new customers and keep their competitors at bay.
The security of the cloud for the most part is pretty se- cure but hackers in the past have bragged that they are able to infiltrate the vastly huge network. Apple contin- ues to protect their servers with high level programming codes. Hackers see the cloud as a goldmine and will con- tinue to target the cloud as it comes of age.
Follow The Money
he 2012 presidential campaign was the most expen-
sive presidential campaign in American history, to- taling nearly $4 billion. Consequently, voters would do well to remember political campaigns cost tons of money, and they should watch where the politicians’ campaign funds come from.
According to the Federal Election Commission Center for Responsible Politics, as of a May 23, 2016 report, 88 millionaires (72 Republicans and 16 Democrats) have do- nated in excess of $188 million to the political action com- mittees (PACs), or secured the donations from their individual members, employees or owners and those in- dividuals’ immediate families. Thus, when political can- didates malign each other about who supports their campaigns, remembers these same candidates have no reservations about receiving money from these PACs, which are allowed to raise unlimited amounts of money from wealthy people, labor unions, and corporations.
Furthermore, some candidates use their own money as so-called “loans” to their campaigns, which means they expect to receive enough donations to recoup the money they spend (i.e. Donald Trump lent his campaign $12.3 million). As of May 23rd, the 2016 Republican Party, Na- tional Committee, Congressional Campaign Committee, and Senatorial Committee have raised nearly $710 million while their Democratic counterparts have raised nearly $677 million.
Does anyone really expect Trump or Clinton to refuse money from these committees?
So, there is a reason why the 2016 fundraising for pres-
idential campaigns has taken a “stark departure from previous campaigns.” The current campaign money is flowing into outside groups like “super PACs” and other political or- ganizations. The reality of political campaigns is that few people give nearly $1 billion to campaigns without expecting something in return.
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