November 06, 2013

Oh.
My.
God.
— Ace

Is the President... mentally sound?

According to two former officials, CMS staff members struggled at “multiple meetings” during the spring of 2011 to persuade White House officials for permission to publish diagrams known as “concepts of operation,” which they believed were necessary to show states what a federal exchange would look like. The two officials said the White House was reluctant because the diagrams were complex, and they feared that the Republicans might reprise a tactic from the 1990s of then-Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.), who mockingly brandished intricate charts created by a task force led by first lady Hillary Clinton.

In the end, one of the former officials said, the White House quashed the diagrams, telling CMS, instead, to praise early work on those state exchanges that matched the hidden federal thinking.

Posted by: Ace at 05:57 PM | Comments (314)
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1 What?

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at November 06, 2013 05:58 PM (HVff2)

2 Not news.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 06, 2013 05:58 PM (aDwsi)

3 First, and previously reported.

Posted by: Law of Self Defense at November 06, 2013 05:58 PM (8gaTv)

4 Damn it.

Posted by: Law of Self Defense at November 06, 2013 05:59 PM (8gaTv)

5 Can you make a flow chart entirely out of smiley faces?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 06, 2013 05:59 PM (N/Sup)

6 No. No, he is not.

Posted by: fluffy at November 06, 2013 05:59 PM (lHVhi)

7 Beaten at every front. :-(

Posted by: Law of Self Defense at November 06, 2013 05:59 PM (8gaTv)

8 Hi Ace!  Glad to see you are you again.

Posted by: madamemayhem at November 06, 2013 05:59 PM (S2RnE)

9 The Cutler letter to Summers is much more damning. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/11/Cutler-implementation-memo-1.pdf

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 06, 2013 06:00 PM (aDwsi)

10 I'm not sure why all the attention-grabbing headlines.  This one is really kind of "meh".

Posted by: SFGoth at November 06, 2013 06:00 PM (L7o9q)

11 Yep, they knew what was coming and were scared senseless about it.

Posted by: Vendette at November 06, 2013 06:00 PM (YfL5v)

12 >>>First, and previously reported.

i know it's made the rounds.

but I don't think people have made quite as much of it as should have been made.


Posted by: ace at November 06, 2013 06:01 PM (/FnUH)

13 He seems mentally sound to me!

Posted by: Elagabalus at November 06, 2013 06:01 PM (Vk2pI)

14 "Warmer, colder, colder, colder, C'mon - ICE COLD, YOU GUYS!"

Posted by: Empire of Jeff, Theatre Fag at November 06, 2013 06:01 PM (JDIKC)

15 Second look at Joey "Honorary Shire Sherrif" Biden, Esquire of the Hairfoot Bidens?

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at November 06, 2013 06:01 PM (4MIPA)

16 A non-Cheese burger.

Posted by: Megs McCain at November 06, 2013 06:01 PM (Oi60j)

17 Of course heÂ’s not mentally sound, heÂ’s a sick man & trying to infect our country with his devious, sick mind.

Posted by: CarolT at November 06, 2013 06:01 PM (z4WKX)

18 If you like your flowchart...

Posted by: huerfano at November 06, 2013 06:01 PM (bAGA/)

19 Parania will destroya.

Posted by: Max Kinks at November 06, 2013 06:02 PM (Hc0n6)

20 I don't get the "Mentally Sound" part? Evil yes, a Commie Yes, Arrogant Yes, an Asshole Yes.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 06, 2013 06:02 PM (UbDLm)

21 Sanity is racist

Posted by: The State Media at November 06, 2013 06:02 PM (uUvS8)

22 Flow chart, sit down, purge ,wipe, flush thanks TFG & little bitchez

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at November 06, 2013 06:03 PM (HVff2)

23 Ace: Have you read the Cutler memo? If not, it is worth the five minutes or so, I think.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 06, 2013 06:03 PM (aDwsi)

24 Questioning TFG's sanity? Raaaaacist.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 06, 2013 06:03 PM (GEICT)

25 This is what happens when you put politicians in charge of Technology. Politicians run things by committee and consensus.... Technology MUST be run by ONE mind designing the system... that Mind MUST be in charge.... Its the age old battle of the collective vs. the individual... and the collective of course, failed.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 06, 2013 06:03 PM (lZBBB)

26 Because I said so doesn't work. Neither do charts, unicorns or those on welfare.

Posted by: assclownspotter at November 06, 2013 06:04 PM (LWzqX)

27

Nope, just paranoid.

 

If he starts rolling big ball bearings around in his hand and mutters about "Strawberries", though.....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX (@Teresa_Koch) at November 06, 2013 06:04 PM (PZ6/M)

28 Well, it makes sense... If you base everything you do on manipulation of others, and you're a sociopath.

Posted by: Secundus at November 06, 2013 06:04 PM (dkQey)

29 20 I don't get the "Mentally Sound" part? Evil yes, a Commie Yes, Arrogant Yes, an Asshole Yes. Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 06, 2013 10:02 PM (UbDLm) ------------- "Childishly inept" works, too.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff, Theatre Fag at November 06, 2013 06:04 PM (JDIKC)

30 Now I understand what Chris Matthews sees in him.

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 06, 2013 06:05 PM (BLAfs)

31 It would seem Barack Obama made, literally*, every mistake you can make in managing software development. This may be the worst managed software project of note to have been produced. *By literally, I mean literally - not "very".

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2013 06:05 PM (uUvS8)

32 Obama has never run anything other than a campaign. And it shows.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 06, 2013 06:05 PM (8Mwgu)

33 Parania will destroya.

Posted by: Max Kinks

They're just fish. Besides I taste terrible.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at November 06, 2013 06:06 PM (xz0nG)

34 They are crippled with Stupid.  The entire lot of em.  

This is just like last month's "Don't test the viability or security of that website, there can be no opportunity for doubt about the Narrative" Ethic.


Posted by: CausticConservative at November 06, 2013 06:06 PM (gT3jF)

35 I don't think malignant narcissism is a disease but close enough for government work.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at November 06, 2013 06:06 PM (xz0nG)

36 DWS and Reince Priebus are actually THE SAME PERSON!

Seriously, have you ever seen them together? Nope.
Are they both brain damaged? Yup.
Have they both had it from Moochel with a strap-on? Yup.
In a zombie attack, would they be the first thrown out the window? Yup.

See!

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at November 06, 2013 06:07 PM (vHRtU)

37 Flaming skull indeed.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 06, 2013 06:07 PM (DmNpO)

38 China Farmer Turns Yarn Baron as Villages Embrace Alibaba ----------------------------------------- Ummmmm, did the link change or is this a 'link check' by ace to see who actually clicks stuff. In which case, ace - four words: Next Time Lesbian Pron.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at November 06, 2013 06:07 PM (19AvL)

39 You mean he hid negative information prior to an election? He lied about four dead guys too

Posted by: Thunderb at November 06, 2013 06:07 PM (zOTsN)

40 Because I said so doesn't work. Neither do charts, unicorns or those on welfare. *** Obama is living up to the legacy of King Canute* *Though the legend in Canute's case isn't really fair or accurate.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2013 06:07 PM (uUvS8)

41 "Let's see: how do we govern a nation of 310 million people, while having plausible deniability for literally everything we do?"

Posted by: Secundus at November 06, 2013 06:07 PM (dkQey)

42 Not exactly flaming-skull-worthy, Ace. I thought maybe he was on video masturbating in public. (That might send his approvals below 45%.)

We're all in for a magnificent ride. I'm not sure even Venezuela is proper foreshadowing. Popcorn at the ready, boys.

Posted by: Randall Hoven at November 06, 2013 06:07 PM (VoY8w)

43 Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 06, 2013 10:00 PM (aDwsi) I have to make myself something to eat, Mike. But I opened link to Cutler letter you posted. Thank you, Carol

Posted by: CarolT at November 06, 2013 06:08 PM (z4WKX)

44 the mess boys ate the strawberries.........and I know a duplicate key exists !!!!!

Posted by: Jerry Jack in Jacksonville, maintaining a simulacrum of normality at November 06, 2013 06:08 PM (omBWL)

45 Malignant narcissist and pathological liar, to name two.

Posted by: Beagle at November 06, 2013 06:08 PM (sOtz/)

46 Just tells us what we knew. No need for flaming skull

Posted by: Obama at November 06, 2013 06:08 PM (1FgrF)

47 Obama has never run anything other than a campaign. And it shows. And much like his previous campaigns his efforts are on destroying the opposition, not building something people would acutally want. The American health care system is getting the Jack Ryan treatment.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2013 06:08 PM (uUvS8)

48 Flowcharts are racist.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at November 06, 2013 06:09 PM (vHRtU)

49

You said it best.

Why? Because FUCK YOU! That's why.

Posted by: Drill_Thrawl at November 06, 2013 06:09 PM (/2ciC)

50 I don't get this story. Someone explain ths to me.

Posted by: EC at November 06, 2013 06:09 PM (doBIb)

51 . I thought maybe he was on video masturbating in public. (That might send his approvals below 45%.) ___ There is that tingle again.

Posted by: Chris Matthews at November 06, 2013 06:09 PM (uUvS8)

52 Obama, like Queeg, use geometric logic to make his case

Posted by: Jerry Jack in Jacksonville, maintaining a simulacrum of normality at November 06, 2013 06:09 PM (omBWL)

53

We are sooo myzled.

Posted by: Ms. Idled at November 06, 2013 06:09 PM (/cUUk)

54 But, I called for all hands on deck.

Posted by: brick obama at November 06, 2013 06:09 PM (vx61Q)

55 In contrast... the Lavabit founder has announced he is helping to create an encrypted secure Mail system, new protocol... called Dark Mail... He will then make his Email server software Public... This is already in the works, and is scheduled to be released within the next 6 months... THAT is how you run Technology...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 06, 2013 06:09 PM (lZBBB)

56 We are sooo myzled. Fo' shizzle.

Posted by: Brother Cavil and his Flying Toaster Circus at November 06, 2013 06:10 PM (m9V0o)

57 Finally, the Jets get on the board. 4-1 'Hawks, ugh.

Posted by: logprof at November 06, 2013 06:10 PM (4BA+Y)

58 Is the president...mentally sound?

umm..no. period.

Posted by: Willy at November 06, 2013 06:10 PM (kUCQ4)

59   The democrats are all Marxists.  Their blind willful followers that have nothing to gain from democrats in office are most certainly not mentally sound.  Like the idiots that are complaining about losing their good old insurance and their new fancy premiums going up and yet still say they'll vote dem in the next election... fools everywhere.

Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at November 06, 2013 06:10 PM (LIvS0)

60 When Bob Dole is still in your OODA loop after a decade, you've got some issues.

Posted by: Jean at November 06, 2013 06:10 PM (CMlD4)

61 When all you truly care about is power, this is one of the results.
 
Remember that the whole idea for 404Care came to TFG as a need to have some kind of platform at a speech:
 
http:// blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/09/24/lessons-from-obamacare-history/
 
(remove the space between // and blogs.)

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 06, 2013 06:10 PM (wNF3N)

62 I have a $20 offer to any of my lib friends that can complete the sentence: President Obama has demonstrated competence by _______________ . without have President Obama be the direct or indirect object (e.g. got himself elected.) So far, no takers.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at November 06, 2013 06:11 PM (19AvL)

63 President Daddy Issues whom is widely acknowledged by those whom have worked with him to be a thin skinned preening narcissistic anti-social loner with delusions of grandeur *MIGHT* be mentally unsound? This is news?

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at November 06, 2013 06:11 PM (KCvsd)

64

Ace, have YOU ever tried to make sense of an operations thingy type chart, after you've choomed a coneful of thai buds?

 

I rest my... thing, that you rest, when you're done talking law stuff...

 

Posted by: otho at November 06, 2013 06:12 PM (9gNQd)

65 "stand down from general quarters."  ....."uhh, the smoking lamp is on".

Posted by: capt. obama at November 06, 2013 06:12 PM (vx61Q)

66 THAT is how you run Technology... Posted by: Romeo13 at November 06, 2013 10:09 PM (lZBBB) I've got five bucks that says he's hauled in by the Feds within a year.

Posted by: Secundus at November 06, 2013 06:12 PM (dkQey)

67 start referring to Obama as "Old Yellow Stain";  that'll sting


"they fought me at every turn.............."

Posted by: Jerry Jack in Jacksonville, maintaining a simulacrum of normality at November 06, 2013 06:12 PM (omBWL)

68 Remember He can do everyone's jobs better than they can He is a pathological narcissist

Posted by: Thunderb at November 06, 2013 06:12 PM (zOTsN)

69 Is this the substitute ONT? If so, then I'll be expecting an update involving a sloth soon.

Posted by: The Substitute Hat at November 06, 2013 06:12 PM (Vk2pI)

70 Sorry, unicorns do work in the minds of those entrenched in fantasy, so I guess in essence, Obama believes this will all work. Wink Wink, he is the unicorn that should never have existed.

Posted by: assclownspotter at November 06, 2013 06:12 PM (LWzqX)

71 "Is the President... mentally sound?"


No, but if we remove him we get the even less sound vice president in his place.

Posted by: zmdavid at November 06, 2013 06:13 PM (rHThR)

72 When all you truly care about is power, this is one of the results. Yep. The Democrat Party is built as an organization to take from the productive class and give to the government class (while talking a big game of doing things for the dependent class). If the Democrat Party were interested in results for the country as a whole, well, they'd be the tea party.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2013 06:13 PM (uUvS8)

73 Eh, I deem it double plus unflamingskullworthy.

Posted by: logprof at November 06, 2013 06:13 PM (4BA+Y)

74 Malignant narcissism will save us!

Posted by: --- at November 06, 2013 06:13 PM (MMC8r)

75 How could he be mentally sound marrying mooshelle?

Posted by: assclownspotter at November 06, 2013 06:13 PM (LWzqX)

76 Posted by: Secundus at November 06, 2013 10:12 PM (dkQey) Yep.... and any of us.... I mean anyone... who will run one of his servers.... (Hi Mr. NSA... nice... cubicle you have there...).

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 06, 2013 06:14 PM (lZBBB)

77 If paranoia and narcissism are mental illnesses, then no, no he is not.

Posted by: LASue at November 06, 2013 06:14 PM (gjIQF)

78 Narcissistic Personality Disorder has been removed from the DSM this year so we can't technically say Obama is suffering from that. When he starts firing on the citizens in large numbers we'll have to use some other official term.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 06, 2013 06:14 PM (23Kgq)

79 This Administration is totally 404

Posted by: Debbie Weaselwords-Schultz at November 06, 2013 06:14 PM (e8kgV)

80 Yep, it's really that bad.

Posted by: RiverC at November 06, 2013 06:14 PM (9hUiB)

81 No,ace.No,he's not.

Posted by: steevy at November 06, 2013 06:14 PM (zqvg6)

82 Look, why is it so hard to accept that Obama is completely insane?

Both my parents were diagnosed with cancer in January. Dad died a month later, and Mom died last month.

After Dad died, we found out that he knew about his abdominal mass for two years but did nothing about it. Mom beat the cancer but starved herself to death.

Both of my parents refused to accept that they had cancer, period. Their denial remained rock solid and perfectly intact until the moment of their deaths. They died hysterical and in terror.

During the ten months of utter torture they put us through, they'd say, "I've never had to do things like this before!"

We'd say, "Well, you never had metastasized state four cancer before," but it did no good. Dad refused to have his mass checked until it was the size of a soccer ball. He hid it with baggy clothing. After he died, we found new underwear in his closet; it has a 52-inch waist. His plan was to just keep buying bigger and bigger underwear.

When we told Mom she would get cachexia and die of congestive heart failure, she'd say, "That's not going to happen! You worry too much. I've never had to eat three meals a day, and I'm not going to start now!"

She lost sixty pounds and died of congestive heart failure, having beaten the cancer but killed herself with cachexia.

We begged, cried, and talked to our parents for hundreds of hours. We told them, "You. Will. Die." They shook their heads and said, "No we won't. Everything will be fine. Stop nagging!"

Obama is--like my parents--insane. That's all there is to it. Accept it. Stop questioning it. I had to accept that both my parents were insane, which is a mite harder than having to accept that a perfect stranger and a corrupt machine politician with a riotous family history is insane.

No fact, no argument, no evidence, and no failure will penetrate Obama's denial and pathological need to do what he and only he wants. Both my parents didn't want to die of cancer, so to prove that they didn't have cancer, they refused to cooperate with their treatment.

Like my parents, Obama will stick to his guns until he's in an urn. Count on it. Stop questioning why. The answer is, "Because he's insane. He was damaged beyond repair as a child."

Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at November 06, 2013 06:14 PM (1QwWe)

83 What I like is the sound of the rats jumping ship.  These paranoid clowns have been sitting on the flow of information to the public for years - now they are off balance and leaking like a sieve.

Posted by: Jean at November 06, 2013 06:14 PM (CMlD4)

84 miley cyrus is kinda a whore. some kids were playing her vids in the office over lunch. her twerking was kinda low key.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 06, 2013 06:15 PM (Z9EHQ)

85 76 Posted by: Secundus at November 06, 2013 10:12 PM (dkQey) Oh, and Google just announced they are now encrypting all traffic between their servers.... making it much harder for the NSA to get all the data.... Guess they want to make uncle Sam pay for it, like when they sell that data to everyone else...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 06, 2013 06:15 PM (lZBBB)

86 Sorry, unicorns do work in the minds of those entrenched in fantasy, so I guess in essence, Obama believes this will all work. *** The realm of politics is the real of make believe. The problem is the people that win at politics are given essentially now control of everything else. You can convince a plurality of LIVs that a shit sandwich is going to be great for them, but when they finally have that bun sitting in front of them most aren't going to smile and wolf it down...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2013 06:15 PM (uUvS8)

87 The bottom line here is that they did not care one whit about people,healthcare or anything other than #winning. Does he ever actually sit at a desk and work? Has he ever had an original thought?It's like, okay, what do we do next? Oh, healthcare. You figure it out and let me know what I need to say.

Posted by: Sharon at November 06, 2013 06:15 PM (DtEq4)

88 "I've got five bucks that says he's hauled in by the Feds within a year." He will get the Clinton whistle blower, Enron bigwig, Tim Russert, & Andrew Breitbart 'heart attack' special. Or the journalist mysterious car crash driving 90mph in the middle of the night fleeing from 'unknown' assailants to be later ruled a drug induced suicide by recklessness. Seems to have served the Democrats well when certain information or lines of questioning started to be problematic.

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at November 06, 2013 06:15 PM (KCvsd)

89 Dial down the flames and substitute skunk spray instead because that's basically what has happened to the American people. We got sprayed by a skunk, i.e. Obamacare. My only hope is that his name is forever attached to the abomination.

Posted by: Tuna at November 06, 2013 06:16 PM (M/TDA)

90 Wow. You'd think we elected a bunch of people who've never had a job, produced anything of value, or even demonstrated basic the employment skills necessary to ask people "Do you want fries with that" in their lives. Ummm... nevermind.

Posted by: Damiano the Economic Traitor at November 06, 2013 06:16 PM (j0wOO)

91 ) 58 Is the president...mentally sound?

umm..no. period.
Posted by: Willy at November 06, 2013 10:10 PM (kUCQ4)

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I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille

Posted by: NCwoof at November 06, 2013 06:16 PM (aUQgu)

92 Personally, I like the Russian coverage since it usually has more varied camera angles. http://www.tsenki.com/broadcast/broadcast/live2.php If, however, you prefer the narration in English, then NASA TV is now live. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#.UnsFrSjnvRs

Posted by: rickl at November 06, 2013 06:16 PM (sdi6R)

93 Obama is the worst piece of shit ever let through the front door of the White House And America voted for him twice It's clear how that happened. Its the frightening demographics of this rapidly declining nation that we should be worried about.

Posted by: TexasJew at November 06, 2013 06:16 PM (6+4TJ)

94 He could be a raving maniac and it would not matter one whit. Someday, we shall see just how disturbed this man is, but then it will be too late.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 06, 2013 06:17 PM (l3vZN)

95 I'm not sure why all the attention-grabbing headlines. This one is really kind of "meh".
Posted by: SFGoth

It's important because while you usually suspect this kind of political meddling wiof the bureaucracy happens - you usually never get it on paper.

Posted by: Jean at November 06, 2013 06:17 PM (CMlD4)

96 9 The Cutler letter to Summers is much more damning. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/11/Cutler-implementation-memo-1.pdf Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 06, 2013 10:00 PM According to that letter (dated May 11, 2010) the project needed strong leadership from the outset in order to succeed. All the talk now from the dems blaming the GOP for not cheerleading hard enough is really pathetic, in light of Cutler's letter. The project failed due to obama and his incompetent advisers. There's no other reason. They're the reason IT failed. They're the reason the exchanges have failed. Yet they go around pointing fingers at everyone else saying, "It's the greedy insurance companies fault! It's Americans fault for being so dumb! It's the GOP's fault for not being supportive enough!" Whatever. How about you look in the mirror and admit it's because the dems suck at managing and implementing the change they're always going on about.

Posted by: elaine at November 06, 2013 06:17 PM (GNZ0/)

97 Oh, Jesus, Tacky. I am so sorry. It has been a truly dreadful year for you and your family.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 06, 2013 06:18 PM (DmNpO)

98 watching obama working to reconcile his self-perception as a vulcan jedi 3dimensional chess grand master SEAL with the fact that he put himself in to the frankmarshall of all clusterfucks is gonna be fun. I may be ordering a lot of pizzas while this unwinds. valerie jarretts secret whispering is only gonna carry obiwan obama so long.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 06, 2013 06:18 PM (Z9EHQ)

99 Unexpectedly, CMS's chief technology officer is "retiring" before healthcare.gov is scheduled to be back up ... or just up ... whatever

Posted by: Julian Assange (channeled by Steve Jobs) at November 06, 2013 06:18 PM (e8kgV)

100 Recycled from several years ago.  He's so thin skinned he's got a resevoir tip.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at November 06, 2013 06:18 PM (Qp+vN)

101 I'm not sure why all the attention-grabbing headlines. This one is really kind of "meh". *** There is nothing "meh" about it. As of January 1 folks will need insurance and the friggin systems aren't likely to be communicating with each other.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 06, 2013 06:19 PM (DmNpO)

102 Its the frightening demographics of this rapidly declining nation that we should be worried about. --- The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses!

Posted by: Juvenal at November 06, 2013 06:19 PM (uUvS8)

103 All the talk now from the dems blaming the GOP for not cheerleading hard enough is really pathetic Healthcare.gov is Tinkerbell.

Posted by: --- at November 06, 2013 06:19 PM (MMC8r)

104 I must be retarded. I don't understand what the bolded part means. The WH wanted the something something hidden federal thinking? What?

Posted by: EC at November 06, 2013 06:19 PM (doBIb)

105 Hitler Finds Out Insurance Cancelled


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USG_gjaEYak

Posted by: NCwoof at November 06, 2013 06:20 PM (aUQgu)

106 Just for fun at a health fair I asked what my rates were going too, I was told four dollars more a pay period. I said hey that is great because we are employer based. I got a resounding yes, so then I said, we all get screwed in 2015 when the extension expires and we are forced into exchanges. Wow, the silence, the panic and the statements, "But we are Federal Workers!" Yes we are and we are not exempt, welcome to the nightmare you a**holes voted for. In the immortal words of Jay London, "It was a year ago today." What that means I have no clue. But yes, we are all getting an obamacare enema against our will.

Posted by: assclownspotter at November 06, 2013 06:20 PM (LWzqX)

107 It's amazing we aren't all speaking Chinese right now.

Posted by: mpfs at November 06, 2013 06:20 PM (aHtkp)

108 I don't see the hubbub here. I mean, they praised the states, right? It's not their fault the states couldn't take hints.

Posted by: Snark Shark at November 06, 2013 06:20 PM (EO5SM)

109 oh yeah, regarding those 14 democrat senators that met with obama today, someone needs to splain to them that the number obama is watching is 67. as long as he has a veto proof majority he does not care who gets elected in Louisiana. dem sens individually insured are all grease for the obama machine.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 06, 2013 06:20 PM (Z9EHQ)

110 Oh, and Google just announced theyare nowencrypting all traffic between their servers.... making it much harder for the NSA to get all the data.... Guess they want to make uncle Sam pay for it, like when they sell that data to everyone else... Posted by: Romeo13 at November 06, 2013 10:15 PM (lZBBB) Google's encrypting, eh? I think I speak for more than just myself when I say: Riiiiggghhhtttt. Sure thing there, guys. I feel safe now!

Posted by: Secundus at November 06, 2013 06:20 PM (dkQey)

111 When Bob Dole is still in your OODA loop after a decade, you've got some issues. Posted by: Jean at November 06, 2013 10:10 PM (CMlD4) Doggone Jean, it's been 20 years! Time flies, don't it?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 06, 2013 06:21 PM (l3vZN)

112 Wait a minute! You mean to tell me a thin skinned narcissistic, lazy community agitator who used being black to get elected was overly concerned about optics and graphics, made poor decisions based entirely on how things looked and lied solely to get re-elected? Color me shocked and awed. Well shoot! I guess the Obamas will be going to church together and photographed with puppies and small children endlessly until his approval ratings go up. I think we'll see them once again trotting Moochelle out on fluff talk shows. Maybe the girls and Mother Robinson can get in on the action. The stress of all this must be making the Bamster smoke like a chimney. This healthcare debacle is actually gaining some traction and not vaporizing like every other scandal that has occurred under his watch. I'm sure that this all comes as a surprise to him. Obama has gotten away with so much crap for so many years, I think he thought this all would blow over after a few days, maybe a week. He must be feeling a little betrayed by his flacks in the MFM, and you know he has got to be pissed. God bless Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul and David Vitter, and may God keep them safe!

Posted by: runningrn at November 06, 2013 06:21 PM (PLOz8)

113 He is smoking like a chimney in Colorado before the 25% tax takes effect.

Posted by: assclownspotter at November 06, 2013 06:22 PM (LWzqX)

114 Nope, he's just a barely trainable retard. Government by Zippy the Ckufing Pinhead.

Posted by: Sharkman at November 06, 2013 06:22 PM (tBVEG)

115 Oh, and Google just announced they are now encrypting all traffic between their servers.... making it much harder for the NSA to get all the data.... Guess they want to make uncle Sam pay for it, like when they sell that data to everyone else...

Hah. I recall a MAD magazine satire, a game show where some mafioso chose the best cops - there was a crooked cop, and an honest one. The mafioso of course chose the cheap date, the cop who was bribable by $200.

But then the other cop, the "honest" cop complained. So the mafioso said, what if I gave you $500. The honest cop retorted angrily, "do you think you can buy off the only honest cop in this town for $500?!"

At $750 the deal was settled.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at November 06, 2013 06:23 PM (d7tB2)

116 Here guys. Use this pwetty picture I drew. That will help you.

Sowwy it's all in red. I ate the other colors.

Oh, and the macawoni are smiley people I glued on to show how much they love me an Bawwy.

Posted by: Joey "Choo Choo" Biden at November 06, 2013 06:23 PM (VNuZf)

117 zombie Humphrey Bogart ( in blackface ) will play the part of Obama.  Biden and Debbie W-S will play the part of the steel balls.


unfortunately, there is no Lt Merrick to take command when the ship is foundering badly and about to sink.

Posted by: Jerry Jack in Jacksonville, maintaining a simulacrum of normality at November 06, 2013 06:23 PM (omBWL)

118 All the talk now from the dems blaming the GOP for not cheerleading hard enough is really pathetic *** A significant portion of the left truly holds that you can remake reality by believe alone - and there success in politics validates this belief for them. So the reason Obama is failing isn't because he is incompetent or what he wants to do is impossible, but because conservatives with their "reality" are stopping us from rethinking the way the world works to a more "sustainable" and "fair" model.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2013 06:23 PM (uUvS8)

119 Posted by: Secundus at November 06, 2013 10:20 PM (dkQey) I totally believe Google would encrypt their data.... can't sell something if its out there for free anyway...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 06, 2013 06:23 PM (lZBBB)

120 Wait in 2011, a year after it had passed they couldn't show the states the flow chart of how to implement it because it might be used in political ads against them?   That is pretty whacked, but I guess choomBoy feared he'd lose re-election and riding around in AF1 4 more years was way more important than not effing up the Dem's wet dream of decades that was finally passed. 

Posted by: palerider at November 06, 2013 06:23 PM (dkExz)

121 I guess I assumed it so it's kind of meh for me. But then I am not a LIV. But they won't read this anyway What am I missing

Posted by: Thunderb at November 06, 2013 06:23 PM (zOTsN)

122 Flaming skull? Am I missing something? Isn't it just witholding information that will show TFG as the fuck up he is?

Posted by: RWC at November 06, 2013 06:23 PM (LpbKr)

123 Shocked that we were lied to.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at November 06, 2013 06:23 PM (l0lja)

124 He's proven he's not mentally sound way before this...

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at November 06, 2013 06:24 PM (KL49F)

125 Wait a minute! You mean to tell me a thin skinned narcissistic, lazy community agitator who used being black to get elected was overly concerned about optics and graphics, made poor decisions based entirely on how things looked and lied solely to get re-elected? Color me shocked and awed.
Yeah, that.

Posted by: Sharon at November 06, 2013 06:24 PM (DtEq4)

126 I don't know why this is flaming skull worthy.

Seems like O simply made sure that everyone went along with his hidden agenda by squashing the facts.  Not necessarily the sign of insanity.

Just a manipulator.

Posted by: Shibumi at November 06, 2013 06:24 PM (25HWz)

127

Its the frightening demographics of this rapidly declining nation that we should be worried about.


Posted by: TexasJew at November 06, 2013 10:16 PM (6+4TJ)

I'm not sure what that means.

Posted by: burmatar at November 06, 2013 06:25 PM (G/XBU)

128 He destroyed the health insurance industry to build  a PIPEDREAM ?

Posted by: GOP Strategery Squad at November 06, 2013 06:25 PM (5ikDv)

129
107 It's amazing we aren't all speaking Chinese right now.

Posted by: mpfs at November 06, 2013 10:20 PM (aHtkp)





它是惊人的我们是所有不讲汉语。

Posted by: 矿渣赤泥 at November 06, 2013 06:25 PM (IfEUR)

130 Barack Obama is as mentally sound as any other dog-eating retard. Get off the silly wagon, ace.

Posted by: eman at November 06, 2013 06:25 PM (AO9UG)

131 Nope, he's just a barely trainable retard. Government by Zippy the Ckufing Pinhead. Posted by: Sharkman at November 06 obama? yeah, I suppose being a manchurian candidate sucks when you find out you were never brilliant simply a tool - in the literal and figurative sense - and someone else has wielded you for your entire existence to achieve their goals and now you are expendable. may be enough scotch to help you forget that, however, there is note enough to make sure you do not remember.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 06, 2013 06:26 PM (Z9EHQ)

132 Obamacare! Brought to you by the same people who gave us: - Shovel-ready jobs for only $1 trillion dollars (turned out not to be "as shove ready as we'd hoped") - Cash for Clunkers (Moody's summarized this better than I can) - Investments in Green Energy (Solyndra and other solar panel manufacturers, like the one that owns the abandoned factory in AZ that Apple just bought at distressed asset prices) - The Chevy Volt (the worlds first external combustion vehicle which sold slightly better than Obamacare) - The GM Bailout (and associated $9.5 billion in losses) - The US Post Service (losing money since 1792) - Amtrak - And, the number 6 (total policies sold on Day 1 of the Obamacare Exchanges... allegedly) Is there anything, short of The Burning Times, that will convince people that the government NEVER succeeds in running anything... ever?

Posted by: Damiano the Economic Traitor at November 06, 2013 06:26 PM (j0wOO)

133 And for the record... the website was not that hard of a project.... Yes, it had to get data from some old databases.... but we've been doing that for years.... And there are already multiple Web designs that can do comparison shopping... It was pure poor DESIGN that killed the website...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 06, 2013 06:26 PM (lZBBB)

134 /sockoff

Posted by: noone, really at November 06, 2013 06:26 PM (5ikDv)

135 "In the end, one of the former officials said, the White House quashed the diagrams, telling CMS, instead, to praise early work on those state exchanges that matched the hidden federal thinking." Hope, change, Unicorns, Skittles, Purple Drank...

Posted by: runningrn at November 06, 2013 06:26 PM (PLOz8)

136 So sorry Tacky. I am blessed to still have both my parents with me. I can't imagine your pain.

Posted by: Jmel at November 06, 2013 06:26 PM (cfFqn)

137 "I was taught this by my family, my friends, my mentors and anyone I associated with. It is just my nature." BHO Today. If he was honest

Posted by: assclownspotter at November 06, 2013 06:26 PM (LWzqX)

138 how long before obama decides to take marine one for a spin by himself?

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 06, 2013 06:27 PM (Z9EHQ)

139 SO Obamacare is.. AN EMPTY BOX?

Posted by: noone, really at November 06, 2013 06:27 PM (5ikDv)

140 126 If you know system engineering, it is in fact a sign of insanity. There are historical parallels, where the nobilty demanded an impossible way of doing something because the possible way threatened their prestige or authority, but I am having difficulty coming up with one right now. Happened a lot in the USSR to.

Posted by: Snark Shark at November 06, 2013 06:27 PM (EO5SM)

141 Oh, I believe they'd encrypt it, all right. The bit I don't believe is them putting up even a token resistance to turning the keys over to the Feds... If they didn't do so at the outset.

Posted by: Secundus at November 06, 2013 06:27 PM (dkQey)

142 Why do I get the feeling that Barry Obama struts around the Oval Office dressed in Michelle's housecoat like the wrassler Ric Flair bellowing, "Woooooo!"   I've seen this behavior before, and it only ends in tears and shame.

Posted by: Fritz at November 06, 2013 06:27 PM (TKFmG)

143 >>>>Oh, Jesus, Tacky.
I am so sorry. It has been a truly dreadful year for you and your family.>>>>

Thank you. The good news is that it clarified my mind. Some people will stay on the road even though they see that three miles ahead the bridge is out.

Three of my siblings are exactly replicating my parents' demise. Dad denied his diabetes; my sister does the same. Mom denied her obesity; my brother does the same; Dad denied his glaucoma; another brother does the same.

It's the house-of-cards syndrome: Addressing one failure will make the entire edifice collapse, since everything is based on lies and falsehood.

A few years ago, my eye doctor told me that I probably had multiple sclerosis, one of my worst fears. I went out and sat in my car, and I thought of the millions who've died before me, and they comforted me. They were all my brothers and sisters. They gave me the strength to face my fear. I wouldn't let them down. I wouldn't let down the troops who'd died in Iraq and Afghanistan. We'd be together, having experienced the Great Mystery.

I didn't have MS, but that experience made me lose my fear of death. My father literally ran through the house screaming, and my mother thrashed and wept for the first time since she was a child.

At some point, we will see Obama totally lose control in public. People this rigid and steeped in denial ALWAYS break down. Always.

Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at November 06, 2013 06:28 PM (1QwWe)

144 Is that a trick question ace?

Posted by: jewells45 trying to keep from going crazy at November 06, 2013 06:28 PM (u25eL)

145 Posted by: Secundus at November 06, 2013 10:27 PM (dkQey) Yeah.... could just be a PR move...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 06, 2013 06:28 PM (lZBBB)

146 139 SO Obamacare is.. AN EMPTY BOX? Posted by: noone, really at November 06, 2013 10:27 PM (5ikDv) No, there's a dick in it.

Posted by: eman at November 06, 2013 06:28 PM (AO9UG)

147 Sanity: have no idea. Just not very smart: I vote for that.

Posted by: NeverEvermore at November 06, 2013 06:29 PM (dd5lM)

148 At this point, I think more people in the world respect Putin more than Obama. At least Putin is honest about being a homocidal sociopathic maniac.

Posted by: Jmel at November 06, 2013 06:29 PM (cfFqn)

149

" who mockingly brandished intricate charts created by a task force led by first lady Hillary Clinton."

 

Na na na na naaaaa, weeere gonna rock youuuuuuu

 

http://tinyurl.com/kj976zl

Posted by: Overmaster Kid at November 06, 2013 06:29 PM (DHQv9)

150 Some one called me a 'functional retard' the other night. So I guess there is a lot of it going around.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 06, 2013 06:29 PM (l3vZN)

151 >>>>So sorry Tacky. I am blessed to still have both my parents with me. I can't imagine your pain.>>>>

Thank you. They're at peace now, and we've gotten what we interpret as signs that they're okay.

Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at November 06, 2013 06:30 PM (1QwWe)

152 The president is insane. All his advisors are loonies. He thinks that he can order things "So let it be written!" and it will magically occur. He kept things secret from the Congress and the States themselves so that Bob Dole couldn't mock him. And the law required that certain information be shared. It wasn't. They didn't even read their own law. The President is a lunatic and he has the football. Joey "ChooChoo" Biden has a firmer, near Herculean grasp on reality than President Obama.

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at November 06, 2013 06:30 PM (4MIPA)

153 Some one called me a 'functional retard' the other night. So I guess there is a lot of it going around. Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 06 If it was someone who ha met you they would have left the functional off.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 06, 2013 06:30 PM (Z9EHQ)

154 Sound as a dollar, wingnutz.

Posted by: Barky O'Genius at November 06, 2013 06:30 PM (dFvpI)

155 Have you heard the one about the pot smoking community agitator who hit the peter principal at age 14 that got elected to national office?

Posted by: Shecky Soetoro at November 06, 2013 06:30 PM (Pr6hk)

156 If you know system engineering, it is in fact a sign of insanity. There are historical parallels, wherethe nobilty demanded an impossible way of doing something because the possible way threatened their prestige or authority, but I am having difficulty coming up with one right now. Happened a lotinthe USSRto. Posted by: Snark Shark at November 06, 2013 10:27 PM (EO5SM) I'd be looking at any society that employed someone answering to "High Priest.".

Posted by: Secundus at November 06, 2013 06:30 PM (dkQey)

157 At some point, we will see Obama totally lose control in public. People this rigid and steeped in denial ALWAYS break down. Always.

Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at November 06, 2013 10:28 PM (1QwWe)

Remind me to set the DVR.

Posted by: CausticConservative at November 06, 2013 06:31 PM (gT3jF)

158 Obama counted on the modern era of the no information voter to care not, for yay Obama is awesome.

Posted by: joeindc44 at November 06, 2013 06:31 PM (nrK4i)

159

Flow charts thingies are rayceest

Posted by: Math B Hard at November 06, 2013 06:31 PM (Pr6hk)

160 At some point, we will see Obama totally lose control in public. People this rigid and steeped in denial ALWAYS break down. Always. By that point, I won't be able to afford one kernel of popcorn so I can enjoy it. The sad thing, Obama's not the only one who is not mentally sound, I find more and more, I am being driven crazy by these leftist and statists who have taken over this country. I am incredibly depressed about the stupidity of our electorate--I tried not to watch the election news last night because it was all so demoralizing. The inmates are running the asylum, and they are killing us.

Posted by: runningrn at November 06, 2013 06:31 PM (PLOz8)

161 We know Obama heavily medicates himself. Still want to know what they gave him for that 2nd debate -- the one after his coma performance. I'm guessing he was given speed. Amphetamines work.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 06, 2013 06:31 PM (ZPrif)

162 I've transitioned from beer to White Russians for the launch. Yummy. For many years I bought cheap hooch, because I'm a cheap bastard. But a few months ago, AtC mentioned Bombay Sapphire, and, curious, I tried some. That tasted so much better than what I was used to drinking that it forced a reassessment. I figured that as long as I am hell-bent on destroying my liver, I may as well do it in style. I've been buying top-shelf booze since then. Tonight I bought a bottle of Russian Standard Platinum vodka to make my White Russians. Sorry, I don't know how to do the Cyrillic characters. I say again: Yummy.

Posted by: rickl at November 06, 2013 06:32 PM (sdi6R)

163 If they made the concept flowchart look like NCAA brackets, Jugears might have successfully figured it out.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 06, 2013 06:32 PM (dFvpI)

164 I was gonna lead the Obamacare website development, hen I got high.

Posted by: blaster at November 06, 2013 06:32 PM (4+AaH)

165 He's destroyed a viable military.  Why should he care what anybody says/thinks about anything?  Jes askin.

Posted by: NCwoof at November 06, 2013 06:32 PM (aUQgu)

166 That McArdle article is topnotch. And, yeah, the Cutler memo is devastating. Executive ineptitude doesn't begin to cover it. There isn't any execution at all. All politics, fantasy, ideology.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 06, 2013 06:32 PM (dfYL9)

167
Obamacare has failed. The Democrats are weak.

It is time Gentlemen.

Wait for it.

Wait for it.

WAIT FOR IT.....


AMNESTY NOW!!!!!!


Posted by: GOP Strategery Squad #winning at November 06, 2013 06:32 PM (5ikDv)

168 159 Flow charts thingies are rayceest Tha's rayciss, whitey, especially if they in cursif.

Posted by: Rachel Genteel at November 06, 2013 06:32 PM (PLOz8)

169 At some point, we will see Obama totally lose control in public. Possibly, but not for a while. They will keep him drugged up and limit his appearances-as they did with Kennedy-for as long as they can.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 06, 2013 06:33 PM (23Kgq)

170 Why do I get the feeling that Barry Obama struts around the Oval Office dressed in Michelle's housecoatlike the wrassler Ric Flair bellowing, "Woooooo!" I've seen this behavior before, and it only ends in tears and shame. Posted by: Fritz at November 06, 2013 10:27 PM (TKFmG) Or the Buffalo Bill mangina mirror dance. "I'd vote for me. I'd vote for me SO HARD..."

Posted by: Secundus at November 06, 2013 06:33 PM (dkQey)

171 Ordering a certified birth certificate for an application for admissions for a college for my son. How is it illegals are going to college again?

Posted by: NCKate at November 06, 2013 06:33 PM (2ti2X)

172 - Shovel-ready jobs for only $1 trillion dollars (turned out not to be "as shove ready as we'd hoped")

Try $5 billion at this point (as the Federal Government is running on CR's of 2009 appropriations, we have now had 5 stimuli programs which have done nothing.





Posted by: phreshone at November 06, 2013 06:33 PM (Pr6hk)

173 Just a reminder that it was never supposed to work, it's just a stepping stone to single payer.

Posted by: zmdavid at November 06, 2013 06:33 PM (rHThR)

174 Is this a big brain/small brain schism?

These people are said to be our intellectual betters but they seem to consistantly do stupid things.

Posted by: Kreplach at November 06, 2013 06:33 PM (dwtaK)

175 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_leap_forward#Backyard_furnaces "With no personal knowledge of metallurgy, Mao encouraged the establishment of small backyard steel furnaces in every commune and in each urban neighborhood. Mao was shown an example of a backyard furnace in Hefei, Anhui in September 1958 by provincial first secretary Zeng Xisheng.[citation needed] The unit was claimed to be manufacturing high quality steel (though in fact the finished steel had probably been manufactured elsewhere).[citation needed] Huge efforts on the part of peasants and other workers were made to produce steel out of scrap metal. To fuel the furnaces the local environment was denuded of trees and wood taken from the doors and furniture of peasants' houses. Pots, pans, and other metal artifacts were requisitioned to supply the "scrap" for the furnaces so that the wildly optimistic production targets could be met. Many of the male agricultural workers were diverted from the harvest to help the iron production as were the workers at many factories, schools and even hospitals. Although the output consisted of low quality lumps of pig iron which was of negligible economic worth, Mao had a deep distrust of intellectuals and faith in the power of the mass mobilization of the peasants. Moreover, the experience of the intellectual classes following the Hundred Flowers Campaign silenced those aware of the folly of such a plan. According to his private doctor, Li Zhisui, Mao and his entourage visited traditional steel works in Manchuria in January 1959 where he found out that high quality steel could only be produced in large-scale factories using reliable fuel such as coal. However, he decided not to order a halt to the backyard steel furnaces so as not to dampen the revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses. The program was only quietly abandoned much later in that year."

Posted by: --- at November 06, 2013 06:33 PM (MMC8r)

176 The White House was heavily focused on regulations, rather than exchange design, for the first two years. President Barack Obama, the article reports, kept reminding people that the website had to work. But people didn't seem to understand this as an urgent priority.


Managerial competence. It's what we didn't need in a Chief Executive. 

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 06, 2013 06:34 PM (dFvpI)

177 richard fernendez has an interesting piece up on who obamacare is really an exercise steganography filled with prizes for those who know where they are hidden. has anyone heard about the federal anti-kickback law being specifically repealed in obamacare? apparently kickbacks are usually illegal but in obamacare they are acceptable or the secretary of hhs has discretion about when they are prosecuted or something.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 06, 2013 06:34 PM (Z9EHQ)

178 "KafkaCare"

Posted by: Snark Shark at November 06, 2013 06:34 PM (EO5SM)

179 Look. Over there! SQUIRREL!

Posted by: mpfs at November 06, 2013 06:34 PM (aHtkp)

180 Amphetamines work. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 06, 2013 10:31 PM


And cocaine is a helluva drug.

Posted by: huerfano at November 06, 2013 06:34 PM (bAGA/)

181 Why do you all hate black men who are intelligent and successful ?????????

Posted by: Chrissy Liebowitz at November 06, 2013 06:34 PM (EUKai)

182

161 We know Obama heavily medicates himself.

Still want to know what they gave him for that 2nd debate -- the one after his coma performance.

I'm guessing he was given speed.

Amphetamines work

 

 

 

I'm guessing Ritalin or that other attention deficit drug.

Posted by: Overmaster Kid at November 06, 2013 06:34 PM (DHQv9)

183 161 We know Obama heavily medicates himself. Still want to know what they gave him for that 2nd debate -- the one after his coma performance. I'm guessing he was given speed. Amphetamines work. I bet he's still chooming it up, but now that he has money, he can afford coke too.

Posted by: Rachel Genteel at November 06, 2013 06:34 PM (PLOz8)

184 176 Get what you inspect, not expect.

Posted by: Snark Shark at November 06, 2013 06:35 PM (EO5SM)

185 Recycled from several years ago. He's so thin skinned he's got a reservoir tip.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston

Holee.Fuck.

Gold.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at November 06, 2013 06:35 PM (xz0nG)

186 The service tower is retracting, showing the Soyuz rocket in its colorful Olympic decorations. http://www.tsenki.com/broadcast/broadcast/live2.php

Posted by: rickl at November 06, 2013 06:35 PM (sdi6R)

187 Oops, left sock on, huerfano stole my mind thought!

Posted by: runningrn at November 06, 2013 06:36 PM (PLOz8)

188 Dumb, drug-addled, puppet on a string...I think that covers it.

Posted by: Brother Cavil and his Flying Toaster Circus at November 06, 2013 06:36 PM (m9V0o)

189 >>>>Remind me to set the DVR.>>>>

This is the closest he's come to losing it in public. Watch first his death-stare, the way he fobs off Boxer and then BRUSHES HIS SHOULDER WHERE SHE TOUCHED HIM, smiles completely inappropriately, shoots daggers, makes a bunch of other weird expressions, and then pulls it together.

He's completely insane.

http://tinyurl.com/6hmw9g3

Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at November 06, 2013 06:36 PM (1QwWe)

190 165: He's thin skinned. He hates to be insulted. He gets enraged at insults, especially ones that are factual. Thus this report where he continually HID information for and from the people needing it to work on his "signature legislation" because he didn't want to be made fun of. It simply boggles my mind. He treated a public law's public implementation like a secret stash of midget porn.

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at November 06, 2013 06:36 PM (4MIPA)

191 Or the Buffalo Bill mangina mirror dance. "I'd vote for me. I'd vote for me SO HARD..." Posted by: Secundus at November 06, 2013 10:33 PM (dkQey) *vomits* Yup, never gonna see a picture of TFG again without thinking about this comment. And the nightmares tonight should be spectacular. Still, thread winner. *vomits again*

Posted by: Damiano the Economic Traitor at November 06, 2013 06:36 PM (j0wOO)

192

I would have thought he could have grasped 'men. guns. protect.'

I was terminally mistaken

Posted by: Ambassador Stevens at November 06, 2013 06:36 PM (Pr6hk)

193 Russian Standard Vodka. Outstanding. CDR M introduced me to it.

Posted by: mpfs at November 06, 2013 06:36 PM (aHtkp)

194 He doesn't need to be mentally sound, Val Jar runs the Country.... He's just a "figurehead."

Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at November 06, 2013 06:36 PM (9+ccr)

195


THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS NOW MY SLUM

Posted by: Valerie Jarrett at November 06, 2013 06:37 PM (Pr6hk)

196 I just read that they made fun of TFGcare at the Country Music awards! I hope it pisses the JEF off.

Posted by: CarolT at November 06, 2013 06:37 PM (z4WKX)

197 has anyone heard about the federal anti-kickback law being specifically repealed in obamacare? apparently kickbacks are usually illegal but in obamacare they are acceptable or the secretary of hhs has discretion about when they are prosecuted or something. The HHS Sec has vast, unlimited powers under Obamacare. It's why he needs Sebelius to stay in that position. Plus she knows where the bodies are buried.

Posted by: runningrn at November 06, 2013 06:37 PM (PLOz8)

198

Alright, so let me get this straight...... The Bastard Son of a Whore Mother, who is nominally American, with both abandonment AND daddy issues, whose never held a REAL job, makes a bad president of a country he is nominally attached to?  I think I got it.  I blame the retards who installed him for destroying the country.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at November 06, 2013 06:38 PM (jucos)

199

Work is for chumps.

Posted by: Barry The Bone Slayer at November 06, 2013 06:38 PM (Pr6hk)

200 I love the flaming skull, Ace.

Posted by: CarolT at November 06, 2013 06:38 PM (z4WKX)

201 181 Oh please, don't get me started. Our recently defeated city council candidate is convinced she's God's answer for the town, held back by racist masses unable to see her brilliance (proud graduate of a non-accredited bible school ran out of a church), ignoring the fact those racist masses sent a black dude to both city hall and the state house during the last ten years.

Posted by: Snark Shark at November 06, 2013 06:38 PM (EO5SM)

202 I bet he's still chooming it up, but now that he has money, he can afford coke too.

 

Posted by: Rachel Genteel at November 06, 2013 10:34 PM

 

 

Barry has always been able to afford coke. That shit pays for itself, yo.

Posted by: otho at November 06, 2013 06:38 PM (9gNQd)

203 Reading the article, it sounds like the President was out of the loop and his staff was too scared to tell him that things were going poorly.

Thank God for Scott Brown.  His win forced the Dems to pass this piece of shit and now they're paying the price. 

Posted by: Colorado Alex at November 06, 2013 06:39 PM (lr3d7)

204 196 I just read that they made fun of TFGcare at the Country Music awards! I hope it pisses the JEF off. Twitchy has a vid of the "Obamacare By Morning" song done by Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley (who is a big Obama fan, or at least was). They showed George Strait, and he was laughing. Keith Urban did not look amused.

Posted by: runningrn at November 06, 2013 06:39 PM (PLOz8)

205 Posted by: Damiano the Economic Traitor at November 06, 2013 10:36 You're welcome. I'm a giver.

Posted by: Secundus at November 06, 2013 06:39 PM (dkQey)

206 Fuck Keith Urban, Damn Aussie.

Posted by: mpfs at November 06, 2013 06:40 PM (aHtkp)

207 he may be able to afford coke but he is too low rent, crack is more his speed, and not only when he is in the middle of an moosehead fueled alcohol binge after a mapleleafs game.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 06, 2013 06:41 PM (Z9EHQ)

208 That video of them making fun of TFGCare is hysterical. I found it at The Right Scoop.

Posted by: CarolT at November 06, 2013 06:41 PM (z4WKX)

209 We been liezl'd to. LIESL'D I TELL YA! Congressional republicans, and I mean reps and senators, need to learn this and use it every day. Liezl'd. Practice it so it rolls off the tongue. It needs to replace all those stupid terms they have been using like misspoke, misled, said an untruth, all that shit that just softens it. LIE-zuld.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at November 06, 2013 06:42 PM (tmFlQ)

210 Posted by: runningrn at November 06, 2013 10:39 PM (PLOz I just watched it at The Right Scoop. It is great.

Posted by: CarolT at November 06, 2013 06:42 PM (z4WKX)

211 Insanely focused on the pre-determined (by others) ends (that the means justify). 

Where is his next vacation getaway?  Dubai with the entire friggin entourage?

Posted by: NCwoof at November 06, 2013 06:42 PM (aUQgu)

212 Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our constituents - we did.

Posted by: Barry The Bone Slayer at November 06, 2013 06:42 PM (Pr6hk)

213 Sorry, we can't execute politics. 

Posted by: The Computers at November 06, 2013 06:42 PM (W9e8l)

214 Alinsky was right. Ridicule is a powerful weapon. Drives em crazy.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 06, 2013 06:42 PM (ZPrif)

215 I had heard it was decided to withhold the diagrams because it was embarrassing for obama. in the cneter of every diagram was a giant obama flag o completely unconnected from every line and bubble in the diagram.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 06, 2013 06:43 PM (Z9EHQ)

216 >>>>He's destroyed a viable military.>>>>>

Things were MUCH worse under and after Carter. The clerks were forced to use ballpoint pen REFILLS instead of pens, so they had to learn how to write with floppy tubes of plastic.

Read Tommy Franks's book "American Soldier." In the early eighties, there were open drug-dealing syndicates in barracks.

My illiterate brother-in-law served in the early to mid eighties. He has a lengthy criminal record and breaks absolutely everything he touches.

We're nowhere near as bad off now as we were under Carter and right after. Trust me.

Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at November 06, 2013 06:43 PM (1QwWe)

217 A Play in One Act Title: The Suit Characters: VP of Marketing - (Sharp dresser, aggressive, no technical background) Director of Engineering, R and D - (Early middle age, 20 years of up-through-the-ranks experience, BSEE, MSCE) ------------------------------------------- The scene: The VP enters the Dir's office VP - "Ed, we've got to make some changes to the Crud project" Dir - "Oh?" VP - "Yes..., we've identified a change that must be made if the product is to be successful." Dir - "Well..., depending on the change, we might be able to manage it, but the release date is bearing down on us." VP - " Uh..., actually it is an addition." Dir - "Addition?" VP - "Yes, and without it Crud will almost certainly be a failed product" Dir - "Well, the problem is that we have had to labor really hard to produce really tight code..., there just isn't any room for any additions." VP - "Oh..., the code..., yeah well,see this is a hardware addition." Dir - "What!" VP - "Yeah, all the latest focus group data show that if we don't add Bluetooth, the product just won't fly." Dir - "What!...., what the hell Ed?. The spec was settled a year ago!" VP - "Yes, yes, I know..., but we just realized that we mis-read the market." Dir - "Okaaay, but this is going to push the release date out by at least six weeks, maybe two months." VP - "What?! No, no..., we're all set for the release, it has to go at the scheduled release date." Dir - "Do you have any idea what you are asking?" VP - "I expect there will be some overtime, but the company is OK with that." Dir - "Overtime will not get it done by the scheduled release date." VP - "Well if we have to go outside or bring in some new hires to get help, that is OK." Dir - "That won't do it either..., it takes a new guy a week just to figure out where the bathrooms are, and probably six months to actually become useful. That's just the way it is." VP - "We have no option, we are committed, you must make this your number one priority." Dir - "Last week you told me the Grunge project was our number one priority.." VP - "Well, move it down the list." Dir - "Look, even if we managed to squeeze the hardware in, and compromise some of the firmware to make room for the necessary drivers and support, there would be no way testing the damn thing before ship date." VP - "Hmm. Well.., that seems to be the only option." Dir - "I'll have some cots brought in...."

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 06, 2013 06:43 PM (aDwsi)

218 204 Keith Urban is Australian and married to a Hollywood star who is also Australian. I don't give a damn whether he likes it or not .

Posted by: Tuna at November 06, 2013 06:43 PM (M/TDA)

219 I disagree with those saying the Cutler letter is worse. The Cutler letter explains that the wrong people are in charge. This information explains that critical design information was withheld from those who were doing implementation work. I think its similar to saying, "You hired the wrong contractor." VS "You wouldn't show the contractor the blueprints!". One is Monday morning quarterbacking, the other is just insane.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 06, 2013 06:43 PM (6qlHs)

220
how long before obama decides to take marine one for a spin by himself?

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 06, 2013 10:27 PM (Z9EHQ)










That fuckin' cracker retard Dubya learned how to fly planes. How hard can it be?

*pulls on collective lever*

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE FUCKING PARKING BRAKE!!!!!

Posted by: Barry O'Fuckstick at November 06, 2013 06:44 PM (MBqvE)

221 Define "mentally sound." Many sociopaths function quite well in society generally, as do those with Narcissistic Personality Disorded (both diseases I am confident Obama presents with without having actually examined him).

Posted by: Dancing Queen at November 06, 2013 06:44 PM (KdfFa)

222 That's my boy.  Dumb as stump, but sounds all articulate.  Way better than destroying a lousy precinct house.

Posted by: Bill Ayers at November 06, 2013 06:44 PM (Pr6hk)

223 The Saudis are pissed at TFG. Remember when the whole world was going to love us again if SCOAMF was elected? it hasnÂ’t quite worked out. We are not respected or feared with The JEF in the WH.

Posted by: CarolT at November 06, 2013 06:45 PM (z4WKX)

224 206 Fuck Keith Urban, Damn Aussie.
-------------------------------------------------

Where's David Allen Coe when you need 'im?

Posted by: NCwoof at November 06, 2013 06:45 PM (aUQgu)

225 The thing I don't get is how the Democrats supported this, knowing people did not want it, and knowing Obama would not be grateful to them. Did they honestly believe people would change their opinion of it? Did the Rat leaders tell the little Rats that the polls would shift in favor of the law after it passed? Did they lie to each other to get it passed?

Posted by: Baldy at November 06, 2013 06:45 PM (2bql3)

226
There is an old saying my dad used to give me as advice:

You're problems won't go away just by ignoring them.

Apparently in Obabyboy's life, other people just handled his problems so he never needed to take any action.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 06, 2013 06:45 PM (nKUHR)

227
Programming languages: Fortran, Cobol, Basic, C, Prolog, Pascal, Modula, ADA, Snobol, and Java.

NOT programming languages: politics, propaganda, bullshit, and paranoia.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at November 06, 2013 06:46 PM (W9e8l)

228 Skipped reading all the comments to say. It's a little scary (like Freddy Kruger). I being just a VoTech grad that our President cares more about looks than reality since in my world the withholding of critical information could mean a chemical plant explosion. And this crap will injure way more people than any of our product could.

Posted by: The Hickster at November 06, 2013 06:46 PM (MVBSu)

229 obama followers needs to do som readin' about the brownshirts under hitler, red guards under mao. not gonna end well for y'all. obama does not reall love ya

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 06, 2013 06:46 PM (Z9EHQ)

230 So, being the figurehead leader of the Harvard Law Review is not training or experience that is relevant to being President of the United States.

Who could have seen that coming?





Posted by: Tom Pendergast at November 06, 2013 06:47 PM (6WpBk)

231 Aha, Snobol, string language from Bell labs, wasn't it?

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at November 06, 2013 06:47 PM (4MIPA)

232
Food for programmers: pizza

Food for mushrooms: bullshit

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at November 06, 2013 06:47 PM (W9e8l)

233 Alinsky was right. Ridicule is a powerful weapon. Drives em crazy. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 06, oh yeah. once the dam breaks on obama, lots and lots are gonna be on the wrong end of ridicule. having not been a white male is going to make them might sensitive to the ridicule.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 06, 2013 06:48 PM (Z9EHQ)

234 WOW.  Either Horseface had a ton  of work done or they airbushed him.  Sheate.

Posted by: Infidel at November 06, 2013 06:48 PM (X7va6)

235 Barry the Humble: I can single handedly heal the planet, lower the ocean levels. I'm the greatest at everything. How can any question my sanity

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 06, 2013 06:48 PM (JivuR)

236 The thing I don't get is how the Democrats supported this,>>

The Utopia of single payer and unicorns.

Posted by: The Hickster at November 06, 2013 06:48 PM (MVBSu)

237 People. People.  What are a few missteps after you consider the creases

Posted by: David Brooks at November 06, 2013 06:48 PM (Pr6hk)

238 217 Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 06, 2013 10:43 PM (aDwsi)

------------------------------------------
Right on, Right on, Right on.
Well done.  Well done.

Posted by: NCwoof at November 06, 2013 06:49 PM (aUQgu)

239 We're nowhere near as bad off now as we were under Carter and right after. Trust me.

You know why I believe this?

Because in the mid 2000s, a movie came out called "Buffalo Soldiers". About how bad morale was in the US Army stationed in Germany under Reagan. The reason morale was bad was because the troops were bad; because "who wants to fight for the losing team".

But in the mid 1980s, America wasn't the losing team.

Still, it did seem like a realistic portrayal of how a dysfunctional US Army would work. I have to assume that the writers had transposed some other administration's military into Reagan's. And that had to have been Carter's. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the script had originally referred to Carter and got refactored by The Suits.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at November 06, 2013 06:49 PM (d7tB2)

240
The internet has killed my grammar and spelling.  I can't believe the mistakes I make.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 06, 2013 06:49 PM (nKUHR)

241
I wrote a few Snobol programs back in the day.  Typeless, good with strings, array elements could be anything.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at November 06, 2013 06:50 PM (W9e8l)

242 Obama did this for fear of the GOP using it against him... living rent-free in Obama's mind, lol.

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at November 06, 2013 06:50 PM (KL49F)

243 Apparently in Obabyboy's life, other people just handled his problems so he never needed to take any action.


Affirmative action can be a vicious addiction.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 06, 2013 06:50 PM (dFvpI)

244 Programming languages: Fortran, Cobol, Basic, C, Prolog, Pascal, Modula, ADA, Snobol, and Java.

Not so sure about Basic

Posted by: boulder toilet MS programmer at November 06, 2013 06:51 PM (d7tB2)

245 Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at November 06, 2013 10:43 PM (1QwWe) Uhhh.... was active during Carter... We did have more than TWO Combat Brigades who were rated as combat ready... We did have many more Heavy Divisions... instead of the new 'light' Brigades we have now... US Navy? 533 Combatant ships... vs. 285 today... 13 Carriers vs. 11...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 06, 2013 06:51 PM (lZBBB)

246 Ms. Sebelius, it's time for Plan B.  Zyklon B.  It will bend down the cost-curve.

Posted by: Heinrich Himmler at November 06, 2013 06:51 PM (Pr6hk)

247
Democrats believe in "faith based" IT.  If you believe it will work hard enough, then it should, right?

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at November 06, 2013 06:52 PM (W9e8l)

248 Unfortunately, we're not equipped to take bribes.

Posted by: The CPU's at November 06, 2013 06:53 PM (W9e8l)

249
Dude ain't never run nothin' but his mouth.


Posted by: Zombie Coleman Young at November 06, 2013 06:53 PM (6WpBk)

250 I disagree with those saying the Cutler letter is worse. The Cutler letter explains that the wrong people are in charge. This information explains that critical design information was withheld from those who were doing implementation work. I think its similar to saying, "You hired the wrong contractor." VS "You wouldn't show the contractor the blueprints!". One is Monday morning quarterbacking, the other is just insane. --------------------- I do not disagree with you, but note that the Cutler memo is dated 3 1/2 years ago..., at the onset. Not exactly Monday morning.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 06, 2013 06:54 PM (aDwsi)

251 That is the question. What the hell were they thinking? Are they all so dumb that they really thought taking over 1/6th of the American economy was going to work? They are so blinded by their partisanship that the sole goal is winning regardless of the consequences.

Posted by: Sharon at November 06, 2013 06:54 PM (DtEq4)

252 >>>>That fuckin' cracker retard Dubya learned how to fly planes. How hard can it be?>>>>

I just read about the Russian army's aircraft competition in 1912. There was a German named Stegalu who had a plane that featured welded steel joints, cantilever wings, a wooden veneer skin instead of linen, and ailerons instead of the wing-warping that everyone else used. It was decades ahead of its time.

The problem was that the inventor, Steglau, wouldn't let any professional pilots fly it. He said flying was easy, even though he'd never flown.All you had to do was start the engine and off you'd go.

So he got in the plane and took off. It was fast but so heavy that it never got more than twenty feet off the ground. He buzzed the crowds and crashed eight or nine times, once after the propeller fell off in mid-flight.

The plane was so tough it survived the multiple crashes without damage. Steglau finally dropped it in a ditch and voluntarily removed himself from the competition.

Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at November 06, 2013 06:54 PM (1QwWe)

253 Apparently in Obabyboy's life, other people just handled his problems so he never needed to take any action.


Affirmative action can be a vicious addiction.>>

Yes it's a bitch to troubleshoot a broken down car in the middle of the night if your only experience/training is with LEGOS.

Posted by: The Hickster at November 06, 2013 06:54 PM (MVBSu)

254 232 Aha, Snobol, string language from Bell labs, wasn't it?
=========================
StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language

Posted by: NCwoof at November 06, 2013 06:55 PM (aUQgu)

255 It puts the fucking lotion in the fucking basket!

Posted by: Buffalo Barry at November 06, 2013 06:56 PM (4eDvT)

256 >>>>Are they all so dumb that they really thought taking over 1/6th of the American economy was going to work?>>>>

NO! That's what I'm trying to drive home by writing about my parents' deaths.

There's no thinking involved. They live in the present, like animals. They have an idea, and they will implement it, period.

"Me want!" That's it. "Me want, so me must get!"

That's as far as the "thought process" goes. They want what they want, and they'll fight until they get their way, even if it means their own death.

You can't apply your own rationality to these people. They are 100 percent irrational. All we can hope to do is thwart them.

Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at November 06, 2013 06:58 PM (1QwWe)

257
MOV EAX, some_shit
MOV EDI, some_place
MOV ECX, 256
CLD
REP STOSD
MSHN(*)

--------------------
* MSHN is a new instruction.  (M)agic (S)hit (H)appens (N)OW.  Used whenever something doesn't work as intended.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at November 06, 2013 06:58 PM (W9e8l)

258

In the watermellon field:  Awright cutters we need 20 loads of 28lb average. cutters make a round, boss aint gone have`em.

 

How many loads you think?  Maybe 5

 

Awright, gohead and cut all the ripeuns, I`ll make it right on the other end.

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,they ridin ponies) at November 06, 2013 06:58 PM (uOxBm)

259 Programming languages: Fortran, Cobol, Basic, C, Prolog, Pascal, Modula, ADA, Snobol, and Java. Not so sure about Basic Posted by: boulder toilet --------------- Meh. I don't see PL-1 in the list.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 06, 2013 06:59 PM (aDwsi)

260 Tonight I bought a bottle of Russian Standard Platinum vodka to make my White Russians. Sorry, I don't know how to do the Cyrillic characters.

I say again: Yummy.

Posted by: rickl at November 06, 2013 10:32 PM (sdi6R)

With all due respect, if you are going to use vodka in a mixed drink with strong flavored mixers, may as well use the cheap stuff. Save the high-dollar brand for sipping straight. I quite often buy the cheapo "Alberta Pure" vodka at my local liquor store for making Caesars, and it works just ducky.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2013 07:00 PM (8Fl6F)

261 MSHN is a new instruction. (M)agic (S)hit (H)appens (N)OW. Used whenever something doesn't work as intended. --------------------- Ahhh. The always elusive undocumented Opcode.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 06, 2013 07:01 PM (aDwsi)

262 That's as far as the "thought process" goes. They want what they want, and they'll fight until they get their way, even if it means their own death.>>

Sounds a lot like my grand kids (~3) (Yeah I know how old they are kinda but there's more than one)

Posted by: The Hickster at November 06, 2013 07:01 PM (MVBSu)

263 I remember reading that Romney already had a plan ready for dealing with the country's problems from day one. He actually understood what needed to be done and sat down with experts and had things laid out - you know, binders, with ideas and people who could actually make things happen. I never got the sense that the Dems even knew what a business plan is, let alone how to make it work.

Posted by: Sharon at November 06, 2013 07:02 PM (DtEq4)

264 RPG, Algol, CLU, Lisp/Flavors, PL/1. PL/M, Forth, Spatula.

OK, I made up Spatula

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at November 06, 2013 07:02 PM (W9e8l)

265 With all due respect, if you are going to use vodka in a mixed drink with strong flavored mixers, may as well use the cheap stuff.>>

And my advice is do what you want the booze to do. Make yourself happy.

Posted by: The Hickster at November 06, 2013 07:03 PM (MVBSu)

266 After the Apollo 1 fire, a senior NASA administrator had a nervous breakdown that resulted in him preparing an intricately detailed org chart of heaven.  He brought it to a meeting and started explaining it.  God was at the top, labelled "Big Daddy".

His boss thanked him tenderly, continued on the with the meeting and then fired him.  (That was pre-ADA so you could still do that sort of thing.)

Stay tuned.

Posted by: Yristhodt at November 06, 2013 07:03 PM (6WpBk)

267 259 In the watermellon field: Awright cutters we need 20 loads of 28lb average. cutters make a round, boss aint gone have`em.

How many loads you think? Maybe 5

Awright, gohead and cut all the ripeuns, I`ll make it right on the other end.

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,they ridin ponies) at November 06, 2013 10:58 PM (uOxBm)


watt-er-mellion.

Posted by: redclay at November 06, 2013 07:04 PM (IfEUR)

268
Stud Programmers: we don't need a design, we just need pizza and Red Bull.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at November 06, 2013 07:05 PM (W9e8l)

269 >>>>Uhhh.... was active during Carter...
We did have more than TWO Combat Brigades who were rated as combat ready...
We did have many more Heavy Divisions... instead of the new 'light' Brigades we have now...
US Navy? 533 Combatant ships... vs. 285 today... 13 Carriers vs. 11...>>>>

Apples and oranges. Cold War versus asymmetrical war.

Also, only two regiment-sized units in the entire US Army are combat ready? Do you really believe that, even though Odierno said it?

The army has agreed to a 25 percent cut in overhead for headquarters. Doesn't that tell you something?

Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at November 06, 2013 07:06 PM (1QwWe)

270 He's got that trait that many of us have seen in a particularly bad boss.  The one where they say something like "Failure is not an option" or "We will make this deadline", all while not allowing negative feedback to come back up the chain when needed.   As if, by sheer force of will , he can make things happen by saying the right words.  Say it and it shall be so.

Lots of exec's put the kind of heat on, to make sure people stretch. The ones that survive in the real world have that feedback loop where problems find their way back to them, and then they know when they need to recalibrate and adjust plans.  They might say the same things initially, but they build the channels to keep themselves in check.  They build the structure to where they can see when the grunts are in trouble.  They listen.

But TFG is a manchild with that lethal arrogance/ignorance combo going, as evidenced time and time again.  It's not about how smart you are, it's about knowing what you don't know.  A man of average, or worse, intelligence that knows what he is will be of less harm than a very "smart" man that overestimates himself. 

Posted by: Dave S. at November 06, 2013 07:06 PM (UvR6d)

271
If you know system engineering, it is in fact a sign of insanity. There are historical parallels, wherethe nobilty demanded an impossible way of doing something because the possible way threatened their prestige or authority, but I am having difficulty coming up with one right now.

Happened a lotinthe USSRto.

Posted by: Snark Shark at November 06, 2013 10:27 PM (EO5SM)








The only example I can think of probably isn't exactly applicable, but fuckit.

Brig Gen James Ripley was head of the Ordnance Corps for the Union Army through most of the Civil War. Refused to purchase rifles to replace smoothbore muskets at the beginning of the war, because he claimed that the old rifles barrels could easily be rifled and issued out to troops.

Nope. Didn't work.

Later on, he refused to even consider the new breech-loading rifles just being invented, because they would "waste ammunition". As I recall, Lincoln had to give him a direct order to test the Spenser rifles.......and he still dragged his feet, and sabotaged the tests by imposing hugely unrealistic expectations. Lincoln finally had him replaced in late 1863 because of the refusal.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 06, 2013 07:07 PM (MBqvE)

272 Perp - 'Spatula', nice. My suggestion for a compiler name - 'Mayonnaise'. Although the converse would be nice too.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 06, 2013 07:08 PM (aDwsi)

273 264.  The Dem efforts to defend Obamacare by pointing to Romneycare does tend to leave Romney's managerial competence out of the equation.

Posted by: Schoolcraft at November 06, 2013 07:08 PM (6WpBk)

274 Brig Gen James Ripley , believe it or not.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 06, 2013 07:09 PM (aDwsi)

275 Stud Programmers: we don't need a design, we just need pizza and Red Bull.>>

Normal programers that don't need a design (by which I mean blue print) If that's not the case why hire Stud programers?

Posted by: The Hickster at November 06, 2013 07:09 PM (MVBSu)

276 As if, by sheer force of will , he can make things happen by saying the right words. Say it and it shall be so.

This is a very common trait among narcissists.  They really believe stating something is equivalent to making it so.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at November 06, 2013 07:10 PM (W9e8l)

277 Stud Programmers: we don't need a design, we just need pizza and Red Bull ----------------------------------- Isn't that pretty much what they said they did?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 06, 2013 07:10 PM (aDwsi)

278 I'm a better programmer than my own programmers.

Posted by: Barky O'Genius at November 06, 2013 07:11 PM (dFvpI)

279 SPATULA - the programming tool for when your project is rotted out and needs some coding Bondo applied.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at November 06, 2013 07:12 PM (W9e8l)

280 "StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language".

Followed by the "Speedy ImplemenTation of SNOBOL", or "SPITBOL", the  compiled version of SNOBOL.

And yes, Secundus has the thread-winner. (Now, where'd I stash that jug of brain-bleach?)

Posted by: Brown Line at November 06, 2013 07:12 PM (a5bF3)

281 That fuckin' cracker retard Dubya learned how to fly planes. How hard can it be?

*pulls on collective lever*

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE FUCKING PARKING BRAKE!!!!!

Posted by: Barry O'Fuckstick at November 06, 2013 10:44 PM (MBqvE)

Jam your left foot hard on the clutch, Barry, and haul the gearshift back into second.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2013 07:12 PM (8Fl6F)

282 This is a very common trait among narcissists. They really believe stating something is equivalent to making it so.


The same principle drives Dumbass's speeches.  He actually thinks by making a speech he's solved a problem.

Chris Matthews agrees.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 06, 2013 07:12 PM (dFvpI)

283 FACEPLANT - the language politicians program in

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at November 06, 2013 07:14 PM (W9e8l)

284 If you know system engineering, it is in fact a sign of insanity. There
are historical parallels, wherethe nobilty demanded an impossible way of
doing something because the possible way threatened their prestige or
authority, but I am having difficulty coming up with one right now. >>

Hitlers engineers hid that they were making an assault rifle from him because he thought Machine Pistols were the answer the MP44 was born (which likely gave birth to the AK47) Point being because they had a dick for a CEO they had to sneak a good idea by.

http://ww2total.com/WW2/Weapons/Infantry/Firearms/German/StG44/MP44.htm

Posted by: The Hickster at November 06, 2013 07:16 PM (MVBSu)

285 watt-er-mellion.

Posted by: redclay at November 06, 2013 11:04 PM (IfEUR)

 

Or: millons, wallamillins or my favorite growing up, them goddamm mellons.

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,they ridin ponies) at November 06, 2013 07:16 PM (uOxBm)

286 The difference is that Romneycare actually worked, it just became too expensive because of the legislatures piling on mandates for care like 404care. Most of this happened after Romney left office. I have bought my insurance through Commonwealth Care for a number of years and have excellent insurance with low deductibles and copays for a great price. Just pissed off that it is all going away Jan 1 because Deval Patrick has thrown the current system away in favor of the Federal. it is disgusting what they did to Romney. He is the only candidate that in my lifetime that didn't have an ulterior motive for becoming President. he didn't need the money, the prestige or the glory or the power - he just wanted to make things work. His whole life has been like that. But they turned him into some kind of Richie Rich caricature who hates women and dogs.

Posted by: Sharon at November 06, 2013 07:16 PM (DtEq4)

287 CRATER - The project management software of choice by bureaucrats.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 06, 2013 07:17 PM (aDwsi)

288 >>>>We did have more than TWO Combat Brigades who were rated as combat ready... >>>>

I KNEW this was fishy, and it took me only a few seconds of online research to find the real story.

The definition of "combat ready" includes training in ethics, cultural awareness, SHARP (Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention), public affairs, rules of engagement, information assurance (IA), language training, command climate surveys, data collecting on medical readiness and immunization, and so on.

Much of this is shit that has nothing to do with combat. So while it's technically true, it's also a lie.

Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at November 06, 2013 07:17 PM (1QwWe)

289 I've been thinking about doing a fake product announcement for a program called RETCON v3.0 that scours the internet for any statements/images you need to have modified and hacks the servers they reside on.

Basically an automated Winston Smith for changing reality.

I wonder how many politicians would be taken in by the ruse?


Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at November 06, 2013 07:21 PM (W9e8l)

290 Heh. You know what's funny? For all the bashing the GOP gets (some deserved) from the base for being spineless weaklings in their opposition to Obamacare, it seems Obama himself was so scared shitless of the GOP and their political efficacy, so desperate to deny them any sliver of info they might use as a weapon, that consequently Obama *himself* ended up torpedoing Obamacare. Right from the start, even before the start.

I suspect much of the Benghazi clusterfuck was also caused and driven by similar political considerations-- seriously egregious decisions and subsequent cover-up driven by fear of what Republicans would do if true facts were known. Of course, as long as the MSM colludes and covers for them (e.g. by making the Benghazi story about Romney), no problem.

Obamacare's a different animal. How satisfying it is, to see the GOP and Tea Party's warnings on Obamarace vindicated. And Benghazi may yet, someday, leave a bloody ugly stain on Obama's & Hillary's legacy.

Posted by: lael at November 06, 2013 07:23 PM (m6RUG)

291 My point was, you can`t make something that isn`t there in the end. Government can convince idiots that it is there.

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,they ridin ponies) at November 06, 2013 07:23 PM (uOxBm)

292 286 watt-er-mellion.
Posted by: redclay at November 06, 2013 11:04 PM (IfEUR)

Or: millons, wallamillins or my favorite growing up, them goddamm mellons.

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,they ridin ponies) at November 06, 2013 11:16 PM (uOxBm)


guh.

watt-er-mellions for compny, millons for cuttin out or cuttin on.

Posted by: redclay at November 06, 2013 07:24 PM (IfEUR)

293 >>>> As if, by sheer force of will , he can make things happen by saying the right words. Say it and it shall be so.>>>>

Two years before he died, Dad had an operation on his hand. After the operation, they told him to NOT USE A SLING. They took a piece of paper that said "Do not use a sling" and highlighted it in yellow right in front of his face. He nodded vigorously. I sat by his bed as the nurses did this.

"Do you understand?" the nurse asked.

"Yes, I do. No sling. Got it."

I drove him home, went to check my e-mail (I lived next door to Mom and Dad so I could take care of them; they let me live rent free in exchange), came back, and Dad was wearing a sling.

"What are you doing?" I asked. "They told you not to wear a sling."

"No they didn't."

"YES THEY DID! I WAS SITTING RIGHT THERE!"

"They said no such thing."

I asked him for all the discharge papers. He told me they were on his desk. I looked through and found every single one--except for the one telling him to not wear a sling. He'd destroyed it.

He wanted to wear a sling for the sympathy he'd get on how brave he was being. As a result his hand healed into a claw, and he bitched about it until he died.

There was no reaching him. Actions had no consequences. Obama is exactly the same way.

Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at November 06, 2013 07:25 PM (1QwWe)

294 Oh and it was NOT Bob Dole (or any of his ilk) they were worried about being out there slamming them.  It was a certain lady from the frozen north.

Posted by: madamemayhem at November 06, 2013 07:27 PM (S2RnE)

295   284 FACEPLANT - the language politicians program in
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FTW

Posted by: NCwoof at November 06, 2013 07:29 PM (aUQgu)

296 Oh and it was NOT Bob Dole (or any of his ilk)>>

We'll sick our lawyers on you if you keep this slander up.

Posted by: Boner pill Companys at November 06, 2013 07:29 PM (MVBSu)

297 guh.watt-er-mellions for compny, millons for cuttin out or cuttin on.

Posted by: redclay at November 06, 2013 11:24 PM (IfEUR)

 

Duh, got it, making finger pistol pointed at head.

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys,they ridin ponies) at November 06, 2013 07:30 PM (uOxBm)

298
He's got that trait that many of us have seen in a particularly bad boss. The one where they say something like "Failure is not an option" or "We will make this deadline", all while not allowing negative feedback to come back up the chain when needed.









Woe betide the moron who's stupid enough to point out where management fucked up. Speaking as that moron.......

Worked for a company that was doing a multi-million $ national project for one of the big three cellular telephone carriers. Hundreds of microwave radios integrated into outdoor cabinets for install, fully wired with power, RF cabling, multiple configurations blah, blah. I was a senior technician running the tech team that was to do the assembly according to the customer's specs. At one of the planning meetings, I asked when I could expect the engineering drawings for the installs, so I could start training the techs.

"What engineering drawings?"

"The ones that the customer expects US to produce. It's on page 65 of the contract."

*everyone in the room flips through their copy of the contract*

"Oh, shit............So Cur, when do you think you'll have them ready?"

"Depends on how long it'll take me to learn how to use AutoCAD. Don't we have engineers that do this?"

"They're sales engineers, that's more important."

A month later, I'd bullshitted my way through actually producing the drawings, and the customer accepted them. Surprised the hell out of me.

The boss bought me lunch.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 06, 2013 07:33 PM (MBqvE)

299 Duh, got it, making finger pistol pointed at head.>>

Not in Elementary school are you. Cause if you are you are, suspended bitch.

Posted by: The Hickster at November 06, 2013 07:33 PM (MVBSu)

300 "140 Happened a lot in the USSR too" Lysekoism is one good example. Trofim Lyseko's fraudulent research and theories were adopted as gospel, modern genetic theories were banned from discussion and dissenting geneticists were arrested and executed as enemies of the state. His pseudoscientific influence perverted biology and social sciences. Stalin and the Communist Party put him in control of the country's collectivized agriculture, and he and his disciples ran it into the ground for the next 30 years, producing useful and inspiring propaganda as people starved under his fraudulent theories. But this is how totalitarian statists always act. Inevitably. They're religious fanatics.

Posted by: GalosGann at November 06, 2013 07:36 PM (vW1n3)

301 So they saved themselves the aggravation of criticism by the GOP and exchanged it for being hated by the entire population!

Something tells me these people are a little off in the head, yes.

Posted by: PJ at November 06, 2013 07:40 PM (ZWaLo)

302 Lysekoism is one good example. Trofim Lyseko's fraudulent research and theories were adopted as gospel, modern genetic theories were banned from discussion and dissenting geneticists were arrested and executed as enemies of the state.

So the opposite of this guy that was then in a Free country?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

The fact he saved Pakistan and much of the Middle East is problematic but he didn't have a time machine so I'll forgive him.

Posted by: The Hickster at November 06, 2013 07:43 PM (MVBSu)

303 The whole Obama administration is practicing Lysekoism

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at November 06, 2013 07:44 PM (W9e8l)

304 Let not thy right hand know what thy right hand is doing.

Posted by: Booble Truth at November 06, 2013 07:49 PM (MvdEH)

305 257 >>>>Are they all so dumb that they really thought taking over 1/6th of the American economy was going to work?>>>>

NO! That's what I'm trying to drive home by writing about my parents' deaths.

There's no thinking involved. They live in the present, like animals. They have an idea, and they will implement it, period.

"Me want!" That's it. "Me want, so me must get!"

That's as far as the "thought process" goes. They want what they want, and they'll fight until they get their way, even if it means their own death.

You can't apply your own rationality to these people. They are 100 percent irrational. All we can hope to do is thwart them.

Posted by: Tacky Adhesive at November 06, 2013 10:58 PM (1QwWe)


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Last year over the holidays, I was part of a conversation among some leftists, most of whom just assumed I was one of them. The one person who knew I wasn't pointed out to the others that I had supported Romney. They were sort of wide-eyed and incredulous for a moment, as if it did not compute in their universe that anyone could. Then when I said calmly I didn't care, it's all going to come crashing down sooner than you think and faster than you think (and I wasn't just talking about Obamacare), there was a silence for a moment, then they went right back to their conversation as if I wasn't there. They truly want to live in a fantasy universe that is not connected to the actual world.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 06, 2013 08:08 PM (HubSo)

306 Oh my. Anybody backtrack to the original de Blasio article in a blog called "Alternative Right"? Worth taking the time to read. Yikes. BTW. Anybody notice that de Blasio's wife has guns that are at least equal to Moochelle's? Can't wait for an arm wrestling match between those two. Also note the redhead in the front row with her hands clasped gazing lovingly at the new mayor's wife. LOL

Posted by: Tuna at November 06, 2013 08:12 PM (M/TDA)

307 307 Ok I posted that on the wrong thread. Talk about LOL

Posted by: Tuna at November 06, 2013 08:13 PM (M/TDA)

308 Deciding what to do then expecting you to guess what that is? Obama is a woman?

Posted by: Moron Pundit at November 06, 2013 08:22 PM (XvC0z)

309 I must deny the Republicans my precious bodily fluids.

Posted by: Barrack Obama at November 06, 2013 08:27 PM (2aO3a)

310 I remember when Clinton was elected, as soon as he was inaugurated(clever me, I avoided using the phrase "came into office"), he proceeded to fire many longtime bureaucrats and install his own brand of Clintonista's. Many conservative leaning Fed employees were let go(left over from Reagan and Bush 41). I remember the hew and cry from our side about how slimy it was... well, it worked. In one fell swoop, he installed good little brown shirts, which Bush 43 did little about. Then came the Obama machine and as those few long career feds who could tolerate Clinton bailed ship finally, the government is now filled with Obama Mini-Me's. Is it any wonder none of their legislative triumphs actually work or have a positive ending?

Posted by: Jen at November 06, 2013 08:43 PM (YM8HR)

311 The clusterf:$k obamacare is even more distressing when one remembers it all started because Obama's campaign speechwriters needed something that would fill time and get him applause during some insignificant campaign stop. "Hey, how about, oh... I dont know... Health insurance for all?" Obama: "Sure, why not."

Posted by: LASue at November 06, 2013 09:44 PM (gjIQF)

312 Hey look at the stock market.

Posted by: BH Obama at November 06, 2013 10:36 PM (uBVzH)

313 In some weird way I think Obama getting re-elected was a good thing in the long run. No, I'm not as batshit crazy as Barry. Hear me out. If Romney wins, Romney probably goes about earnestly trying to make the most of this farkakta piece of legislation. He wouldn't have had the Senate to repeal the law. Does anyone doubt that Romney has the chops to put together the team needed to cut through the bureacracy and come up with something that worked? Having ACA bomb completely now is severe short-term pain, but it is the most likely way to get this law repealed or drastically, drastically changed. It's more than a shit sandwich for Americans; it's a shit buffet. And Romney probably would've found a way to make it more palatable and nutritious. That he didn't get the chance may redound to this country's benefit in the long run.

Posted by: Brass Bancroft at November 07, 2013 05:17 AM (2iHnw)

314 Interesting read. Thanks.

The unsurprising surprise is the replay of "progressive thinking" that is evident in everything else. That is

1. A "progressive" forces a law [in accordance with his twisted view of reality] .

2. ??????????????????????????? [magic]

3. Unicorns sing praises of celebration to the superior intellect of a progressive. Peace on earth...

Posted by: Comrade J at November 07, 2013 07:10 AM (6kkPP)

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