Category: Insights

Politicians are very famous for being.. well.. politicians.  It discouraging to be in a country led by weak leadership because that leadership will eventually effect the nation.  That will affect the businesses and the economy of those nations.  The end result is economic prosperity for we the people.  A corrupt nation is likely corrupt due to it’s national leadership.  The root is there.

We know what that last eight plus years brought America, what promises were kept and  what promises were broken.  It would seem like mostly failure despite efforts to package it differently. Unfortunately, if you watched American politics during the period it was mostly division and distraction.  We can do so much better than that.

Who knows about the next four years, could it be any worse than the last few years?  Who knows? The above video is someone’s observation of what Americans might expect from the new US President.  Do you think these really are the top 25 issues?

We have high hopes for America and despite any leadership, pray that the people will see what they are doing today, affects what they can do tomorrow.

Have you got your DWARF Mission?

Saw this at a print shop in Tokyo.  Even reading the Japanese this seems strange.

The Japanese says something like,

“Using and making are connected to now…”

Suppose the owner is a Lord of Rings fan.

Was amazed by the quality of the one of the bands at the TAC Bonenkai. Fantastic! Will post the video soon.

One thing. When someone is recording something, whatever you do, don’t get in front of their cameras. It may seem funny to you at the time (even if you drank too much) but they are recording for a purpose and you mug will be recorded for eternity in a place you don’t want it to be…or at least a very long time.

Overall, great year end party even if you don’t drink. Good gathering of people augmented by excellent musicians.

Many Americans have been frustrated by Barak Obama and his rudderless leadership of the United States.  Instead of supporting and helping American business that can help increase tax revenue, he attacked Boeing through the Justice Department.

On his international visits, he was more concerned about meeting with homosexuals than the American businesses in the area.

He proclaimed his christianity to get elected but thought it better to  send back the culturally christian people of the Middle East into persecution or deadly environments than properly filtering the Muslims who were admitted into the US that present a threat of domestic terrorism.

Clearly Donald Trump, like most of America, was frustrated with the weak leadership of Barak Obama.  He ran for office because as any entrepreneur, he felt he could do it better.

But that is nothing compared with the utter devastation Democrats have suffered in the states. On President Obama’s watch, Democrats have lost a net grand total of 939 state legislative seats, 30 state legislative chambers and a dozen governorships. When Obama first took office, Republicans held just 3,223 state legislative seats. After Tuesday’s vote, the number stands at 4,162. There are now more Republican state legislators than at any time since 1920. And if Gov. Pat McCrory holds on in North Carolina, Republicans will match their all-time high of 34 GOP governors last seen in the 1920s

The election this cycle is more like a sporting event.  Seems like all the media outlets are wanting to announce it play by play.

It’s so sad to see such poor quality people running for office.

My conclusions for a better US Political system

1. Terms in office should be limited to all positions for 8 years maximum
2. Campaigning should be limited to 90 days.
3. Direct family members should not be allowed to run for the same office as their family member served in whether it be house, senate, or executive branch.

Los Angeles’ LAX airport has probably been the least favorite airport for years.  Immigration agents have not been as friendly as Atlanta, Seattle, Minneapolis and nearly any other major city.  The airport was falling apart and the systems always seemed to be down.

Hats off to LAX now.  They’ve done a good job of cleaning up that airport and making it somewhere people could eat, relax, or even shop in between their flights.

Looking forward to the next LA trip.  Next, they just have to fix the traffic.

Apple Watch. I don’t know if this is a good place for this. 

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Mitel is one of our suppliers in our cloud phone service IPBX Hosting. Great experience talking about the cloud in France. 

I’m not really that much of a sushi guy, like I used to be.  However, discovered 24 hour sushi restaurants in Tokyo’s Tsukuji last weekend and wondered how you can miss something when you pass it nearly every day.