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Now that I'm the one giving you some ideas to shop and talk, it's just fair that you pay me cash and credit me for consultation from the salaries you get for running your mouths.
Pay me my money! Tre bien!

Who is the G.O.A.T?

Why are people comparing a player who is still in the professional league with a retired sportsman?
Even if LJ wins twenty rings, the place MJ has in our minds and heart goes beyond the basketball court. The style of play of MJ was a thrill that propelled brands into motion. His jump and airness was a significant motivation for many people across the globe. As black as he is, he wasn't stereotyped by his race, everyone reckoned with his humanness, his capacity to fly, to motivate, to do the impossible, to inspire and entertain on the court and off the court with his smile, swag . .  I could go on and on.
How many people remember the flu situation? Would you want to take LJ through that type of test?
And if LJ doesn't achieve the fit of winning many championships, he has become a legend in his own right. If he is allowed to continue playing the game for the love he has for the game more than about beating someone else's record, he should be fine. 
However, records are to be beaten. Even MJ knows that. Some new players, hungry enough are probably warming up to take the game to new levels.
The pressure placed on LJ's shoulders to beat MJ's record is unnecessary.
LJ should be allowed to enjoy playing the game and focus on making his own mark.  When he retires, then we would compare his game with the greatness of past players such as Shaq, Magic Johnson, Kobe and MJ.
For now the competition for greatness is between KD - Kevin Durant and LJ - LeBron James. These are the guys on ground. These are the news makers for now. These are the guys that are going to be competing in the next championship.

Facebook Trust Gap

CEO and founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg currently under investigation at the Capitol Hill on issues bordering around business ethics between Facebook and developers access to Facebook users data.
Alleged of making private information public, deviant at protecting users privacy, uneven distribution of data metrics are some of the several unethical and flippant practices of Facebook.
Let's hope something useful would emerge from these due process that would enable internet legislations reviewed, rebuild camaraderie trust and ensure ethical practices of social media portals.
 

Reorientation of the girl child

As we speak laws are being passed into legislation to permit pedophile marriages of underage girls in third world countries.
When an eight year old girl who is supposed to be in school getting an education is sent into the institution of marriage, by the time she is thirty, she would have given birth to a dozen children or more if she becomes sexually active as soon as she is of child bearing age.
Across board, the ripple effect is a densely populated communist third world with questionable preposition.
Whereas in the first world, bills are being passed to fortify the rights of the LGBT community. Gay marriage rights are getting more attention than any other issue in the media and their interests are being prioritized above that of women and children. The resultant effect of this is a sparse uneven distribution of population and opportunity.
It's not as if gay practices are absent in third world countries, those inclined in such ways are simply more strategic and are not as flippant as their gay counterparts in some other parts of the world.
A review of these issues and the laws backing these rights would go a long way in curbing the excesses of it.

Jimmy Kimmel and Sean Hannity settle feud

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel who is known for humorous pranks, stunts, parody skits and monologues on the late night show, made a jest at the accent of the first lady of the United States while she was reading to young children at the annual Easter egg roll festival. Apparently, Kimmel's monologue did not sit quite well with American author Sean Hannity who called him out for his boorish behavior towards a woman who couldn't defend herself and he asked Kimmel to apologize to FLOTUS for his insensitivity. But instead, Kimmel hit back at Hannity and the current political tempo, describing it as some sort of circus with a burlesque that resorted to back and forth banters from both parties on their different tv shows which further extended into a vitriolic dialogue on social media.
This attracted various reactions from more people especially immigrants who had struggles subduing the lingering accent of their native or initial languages in the attempt to speak fluent English. Some detailed the extent to which the struggle to improve the quality of their vowel sound had led them in the attempt to overcome the stigma attached to having an accentuated accent.
Some others simply called him out for his incivility towards authority, demanding an apology from him.

If a monologue got Kimmel into trouble with conservatives and the accentuated population, the name calling vitriol dialogue between him and Hannity piqued him further into shenanigans when during the perversely heated belligerence, his gay joke at Hannity aroused the ire of the LGBT community who demanded an apology. It was followed succinctly with threats that resulted in a tendered apology from Kimmel to all parties nettled in the feud, thereby preventing a civil social media war.

The thing about war is that everyone knows when it starts but cannot predict how long the war would last. Some conflicts could have gone on for generations beyond the contempt that started it, if something wasn't done in time to curb it in the nib.
Many observers approve Kimmel for taking the moral high road of reconciliation rather than keep a "Hatfield and McCoy" type situation going. He was also recognized for refraining from adding incentives to the juicy news feed weighing from the attention this feud was generating on the traditional and social media platforms, blogs and vlogs.

Perhaps understanding that sometimes people simply want to feel good about the choices they make for themselves without being unfairly judged about their proclivities nor ostracized because of their lifestyle choices, could help in conflict resolution and bring about a greater camaraderie. According to Maya Angelou it is not what you say or do that matters but how you make people feel.

How different will our lives be if a parent talking to a child didn't monologue; If schools were more interactive when impacting knowledge;
If politicians instead of hammering down tough political points and agenda, employed the use of dialogue to focus on the process of exchanging ideas and building on ideas; Or in some cases instead of delivering speeches, interacted and genuinely exchanged ideas, what a huge difference that would make.

Political correctness?

They said he is popular for doing a reality show. The Apprentice. If that is the point, try and do your own unscripted reality show and let us see you as you are.
If you think it is easy to bring your life in view of the world, to the limelight to be scrutinized by people who know what they are doing and those who don't, by opportunists, culture vultures or haters.
If you have the bravery to put yourself out there just as you are, with your opinion, beliefs and proclivities without being afraid of people judging you, by all means let the world see you without hiding yourself behind anonymity. 
Let it not be only when it is about electioneering that we hear your voice, see you or know about your beliefs.
There are so many platforms available for launching yourself unto issues that matter to you in a world where technology is merging more and more with people. If you tell me that you are only relevant when it comes to telling people who they should vote for or who they shouldn't, or that you cannot make a difference until you have a political position, you should have a rethink about your self-esteem.
The problem with good governance is the notion that some people are political experts and that they're all-knowing when it comes to politics and psychology. The question is what makes a person a political expert? Is it educational background? Even graduates of political science don't claim that fit. Is it in the ability to bamboozle people with sugar coated speeches and well rehearsed political correctness with well disguised, well tucked in insecurities, arrogance or hate?
What makes a person a political expert? 
What kind of persons invest their talent in political careers without corresponding investments in humanity?
The question electorates should be asking is what good does this political expert bring to the table outside of politics because truth be told, if you teach a student for a period of time, you should have the foresight to know that the student ought to graduate at some point in time and you should let them be free to use their newly acquired knowledge to think and answer the questions.
Does it make sense for a teacher to teach students for several years and when it comes to examining the students, the teacher is the same person writing the exams for the students. Alpha Answer Provider. So why and what have you been teaching the students all these years. Is it that you're underestimating their capacity to grasp what you've been teaching that they have to turn to you for the answers whenever exams show up?
Change takes place. Babies grow into toddlers, teenagers, adults etcetera. At some point, students must graduate for new students to show up that the teacher would need to teach.
There are real issues out there to tackle than bogie around same old political gimmicks.
This baits the question, with which parameter is political correctness measured?
If the only impact a man has made is only in politics, that man is a danger to himself.
Politics is not a profession.
Politics takes on the shape of who wears it. There's no 'one size fit all' model. You have to bring to the table your sincerity or authenticity and readiness to serve.
Issues of loyalty cannot be separated from politics just as in business. You can't be hired and getting paid by Samsung for you to be secretly working for Apple! The day they discover you leeching is the day you get fired, freeing you completely to go and work at Apple. Politics is not a profession. It is a hired tool employed to carry out the will and interest of the state and of the people living within the geographical region that entrusts the individual with power. And as soon as the job is done the democratic process takes place to elect the next candidate to take on new boggling issues of the day.
The other factor that is beyond the powers of electorate is changes in the phases of the moon.
And since God created the moon, and for many other undeniable reasons, the main factor however is God.
The "yes" from God is the most valuable approval that makes circumstances lineup in ones' favor.
The stone which the builders refused has become the chief cornerstone. This is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our sight.
One more argument in favor of God's choice is that there is no authority that be that is not of God.

Without wigs and weaveons, or even turbans, shawls and scarfs, how many people today are going about with their natural hair? Isn't it part of the reasons why some people are not happy nor contented with whom they are. They are trying so hard to be perceived and liked for who they are not. They have gotten so comfortable at being who they're not and while everything within them is begging to be free, they are looking outside of themselves to find who they can blame to do their thinking for them.
Whereas the inner self says, you are beautiful. If you truly believe it, your beauty would emerge and you'd never wish to be anyone else but the wonderful person God made you to be whether female or male, tall or diminutive, fat or slimshaddy, white, yellow, halfcast, black or brown.