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"I'n'I will see you through"

This Bob Marley's Jammin:


This is the key line:

Ain't no rules, ain't no vow, we can do it anyhow:I'n'I will see you through,'Cos everyday we pay the price with a little sacrifice,Jammin' till the jam is through.

Until I visited Jamaica and saw what I saw and talked with the people, I never understood what this meant. But I get it now.  

Moral Relativism

I came across an interesting passage in Colin Powell's biography, My American Journey:

This a passage from My American Journey, PowellA photo posted by K Kumar (@sicstrap) on Jun 5, 2016 at 10:29am PDT

Given the death of Muhammad Ali, it was interesting to read his take on the Vietnam War as well:

“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and deni...

Book Review: Special Agent: Mauve-Origins

Special Agent: Mauve-Origins by J.B. Trepagnier
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Special Agent: Mauve-Origins is an interesting short story about a young woman attempting to become a secret agent. It is a light hearted read with a bit of humor thrown in. It is told in the first person and I thought it was interesting to read about someone in a kind of dead end job trying to become a secret agent.

There were a couple challenging areas for me. The story is mostly narrative based, there is not much dialogue...

Misery

Copy/paste the text below into your blog. Misery by Stephen King
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Having seen the movie a few times, I was interested in reading Misery to get a deeper telling of thr story. And they are different enough to be unique in their own ways. The overall plot is mostly the same, but this Misery is a lot darker and absurd. There was a lot of depth to the story that it made it more fuller than the movie.

Misery is like a horror story with so much realism that it makes the horror so...

Jamaica

I was in Jamaica a while back:

#bluemountainA photo posted by K Kumar (@sicstrap) on May 8, 2016 at 4:35pm PDT

At the beach...A photo posted by K Kumar (@sicstrap) on Apr 30, 2016 at 4:43pm PDT

I was in Trenchtown at the Bob Marley cultural center, New Kingston, Ocho Rios, and the famous Blue Mountains. Jamaica is part of the West Indies, a former colony of Britain with still close ties. The home of Bob Marley. A great juxtaposition of magnificent beaches and traditional African style poverty. Expensive food and delightful people. Good music and jerk everything.... 

Jurassic World

Jurassic World is pretty impressive movie, and I wasn't expecting it. The dinosaurs are back, this time they are genetically modified and with bigger cages, tighter security, and even in the water. The plot is more or less the same for all the Jurassic movies. The humans make the same mistakes in the pursuit of profit or overcoming nature and in the end they fail.
What I liked about this movie was the way it rightly shows the way tourism is conducted these days with overwrought exhibits that a...

Leadership

This is from Colin Powell's book, My American JourneyA photo posted by K Kumar (@sicstrap) on May 22, 2016 at 8:10pm PDT

I came across this interesting passage in Colin Powell's book. He presents leadership as an issue about problems and having a close enough relationship with subordinates that they feel comfortable to bring their problems to you and not hide them or take them to others higher in the chain. He says that if you aren't hearing about problems then you are not a leader. 
At fi...

13 Hours

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

13 hours is the story of the Benghazi attack told through the eyes of the security contractors tasked with protecting the CIA annex. When the nearby Embassy compound is attacked, the contractors, along with local militia and DS personnel, are the only ones left to protect the US Ambassador against the onslaught of an enemy attack. This could easily be the premise of an action movie, but...

Quote from 13 Hours

I came across this interesting quote in 13 Hours:

The operators continued to view the 17 February members with varying degrees of trust, but all adopted a Benghazi modification of the Golden Rule: If they don’t pose a threat, we won’t shoot them.

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