Hans and Franz enjoying some morning sunshine on this fine March day.
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If you had any remaining doubts that Trump considers ICE to be his personal intimidation force, this should clarify things for you. #Trump #ICE
Trump threatens to put ICE agents in airports over funding impasse | Reuters
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This seems like an incredibly important data point for every leader around the globe to consider when interacting with Iran. This is especially true for those leaders that wrongfully feel they have the right to start unprovoked wars.
Iran’s Attack on Distant U.S.-U.K. Base Demonstrates Growing Range
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Nikki McCann Ramirez wrote an excellent article in Rolling Stone about how we Americans, through our elected government, could be spending our collective budget on positive changes for citizens and humanity instead of bombing and killing Iranians.
Surely, we all can agree that the following list of alternatives would have wide support:
- Health Care
- Child Care
- Medical Debt
- Foreign Aid
- Food Assistance
- Public Programming
- Preschool Development
- Aid for the Disabled
These are all things that help real people and can have lasting, positive impacts on our collective lives on this planet. We are well overdue on changing the way we think as Americans about how best to have impact, and it all starts by actually caring about each other and electing the right leaders.
THINGS THE MONEY FOR TRUMP’S IRAN WAR COULD HAVE PAID FOR THAT AREN’T … WAR
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This ruling is a massive win for the citizens of the United States and for the over 360 million people worldwide that rely on Voice of America for information especially in countries where real, factual information is not otherwise accessible.
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The Smashing Pumpkins
My college-aged son and many of his friends have discovered The Smashing Pumpkins. They’re going through their Smashing Pumpkins phase much like I and many of my friends went through a Led Zeppelin phase at some point in middle or high school. You know the “phase.” It’s the journey of discovering a band from before we were born and thinking, at least for a brief time, that it may be the greatest band of all time.
I have to admit, I have been thoroughly enjoying this moment. The Smashing Pumpkins is one of my favorite bands, and I distinctly remember listening to their albums non-stop in my college dorm and apartments in the ’90s. There was something about their music that spoke to me and my friends at the time. Perhaps my son and his friends are experiencing the same thing now. Perhaps it is the age or the environment that makes college the best time to get into the Pumpkins, or maybe it is just really good music.
My son asked about my favorite albums and songs, and of course I mentioned Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. But then I pulled out a wild card – Mary Star of the Sea.
You might be thinking – Tim, that’s not a Pumpkins album, and you would be correct. It’s an album that came out in 2003 by a band named Zwan after the Pumpkins broke up the first time. Zwan included Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin and was basically just another version of The Smashing Pumpkins with a few other musicians. If you are lucky enough to have the CD (or ripped it back in the 2000’s like I did), you have my third favorite Smashing Pumpkins album in your library. Hopefully, Mary Star of the Sea and other Zwan content will be released on digital platforms soon. I suspect all of the 20-somethings discovering The Smashing Pumpkins would immediately take to Zwan at the same time.
Rock on!
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I’ve been spending some quality time integrating Aha! and Jira this week. I’ve been integrating systems for most of my professional career, and I have to say that Aha! has created an absolutely incredible user experience for something that is usually very technical and very difficult. It’s like a master class in how system integration should work.
Now I have to figure out how to do this for financial technology systems.
