OCinBuffalo Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 (edited) Whaddya think B-Man? Do you smell a meme coming on? This game is hilarious...and shockingly...called "racist". Yeah. The original was historically accurate in nearly every way, including the real Banana Republic dictators, and their backstories, acctually adding bonuses/deficits to your ability to do things. It was especially accurate when it came to dealing with the USA/USSR. I think I should put some time in tomorrow on this. Edited November 30, 2013 by OCinBuffalo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 The problem is our "El Presidente" has the same leadership skills as Fielding Mellish . MICHAEL BARONE: Welcome to the Kludgeocracy. How is it possible that Barack Obama did not know that his beloved healthcare.gov website was a botch? That’s a question many thoughtful people (including thoughtful Democrats) are asking. We heard him say that he wouldn’t have boasted that it would be as easy to use as amazon.com or obitz.com had he known that it wouldn’t. I’m not “stupid enough,” he said at his Nov. 14 press conference. Most Americans agree that’s true. One thing we do know is that this is a chief executive who does not want to hear bad news, or at least effectively discourages his subordinates from bringing it to him. He made a decision to take the question of intervention in Syria to Congress after consulting, on a walk in the White House lawn, with his chief of staff. Any staffer with knowledge of congressional opinion on the issue could have told him that he didn’t come close to having the votes. And it’s known that his White House counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, learned the week of April 22 from Treasury lawyers that the Internal Revenue Service had, in her words, “improperly scrutinized several … organizations by using words like ‘Tea Party’ and ‘patriot.’” Evidently, she didn’t tell the president, who said he learned about the scandal only when it was made public by IRS official Lois Lerner May 10. Counsels to former presidents of both parties say they would have informed their bosses immediately. Effective executives take special pains to ferret out bad news from the organizations they command. They know that most underlings like to tell their superiors that things are going fine. “A culture that prefers deluding the boss over delivering bad news isn’t well equipped to try new things,” writes Internet pioneer Clay Shirky on his eponymous blog. . . . Obama knows how to use words well. But he doesn’t seem to understand how the world works. “We’re also discovering,” he said at that press conference, “that insurance is complicated to buy.” Yup. There is a reason public policy in industrial age America (and other democratic countries) moved toward greater regimentation and standardization. Centralized command and control was a good way to run assembly lines. There is a reason also that public policy in the information age, elsewhere and here until 2008, moved toward more market mechanisms. Central planners have a hard time anticipating how IT systems and consumers will respond. That’s especially true when chief executive doesn’t want to hear — and perhaps cannot imagine that there will be — bad news. Welcome to the kludgeocracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koko78 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Obama has no time for bad news. He's got rounds of golf to play, fundraisers to attend and laws to change from the White House Press Room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 McClatchy, USA Today Refuse to Publish White House Photos It only took five years for the American media to get tired of President Obama's spoon-fed propaganda -- well, at least one aspect of it. Earlier this month, 38 news organizations, including the Associated Press, ABC News, The Washington Post, and Reuters demanded more photojournalist access to the president. The White House responded with what one reporter described as a middle finger. Now some news organizations are responding by formalizing policies not to publish White House-distributed photographs. Last week the USA Today announced that it will not use “handout photos originating from the White House Press Office, except in very extraordinary circumstances.” The next day McClatchy joined the conditional boycott. Dissent is the Highest Form of Tax Bracket By Mark Steyn In Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger, the eponymous Auric Goldfinger observes: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it’s enemy action. That may be overly generous. A couple of weeks back, cancer patient Bill Elliot, in a defiant appearance on Fox News, discussed the cancelation of his insurance and what he intended to do about it. He’s now being audited. Insurance agent C Steven Tucker, who quaintly insists that the whimsies of the hyper-regulatory bureaucracy do not trump your legal rights, saw the interview and reached out to Mr Elliot to help him. And he’s now being audited. As the Instapundit likes to remind us, Barack Obama has “joked” publicly about siccing the IRS on his enemies. With all this coincidence about, we should be grateful the President is not (yet) doing prison-rape gags. Meanwhile, IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, in his testimony to the House Oversight Committee over the agency’s systemic corruption, answers “I don’t recall” no fewer than 80 times. Try giving that answer to Wilkins’ colleagues and see where it gets you. Few persons are fond of their tax collectors, but, from my experience, America is the only developed nation in which the mass of the population is fearful of its revenue agency. This is unbecoming to a supposedly free people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 The audit of Eliot shows why Barry's approval ratings are in the toilet. What a douchebag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 Again: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 It’s all about him. Every. Single. Time. Barack ObamaVerified account @BarackObama 20h In a single moment 58 years ago today, Rosa Parks helped change this country. pic.twitter.com/C502SKfJnj "In a single moment 58 years ago today, Rosa Parks helped change this country....................... But I couldn't find her photo." . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMadCap Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 It’s all about him. Every. Single. Time. Barack ObamaVerified account @BarackObama20h In a single moment 58 years ago today, Rosa Parks helped change this country. pic.twitter.com/C502SKfJnj "In a single moment 58 years ago today, Rosa Parks helped change this country....................... But I couldn't find her photo." . He didn't really tweet that pic? Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 It’s all about him. Every. Single. Time. Barack ObamaVerified account @BarackObama20h In a single moment 58 years ago today, Rosa Parks helped change this country. pic.twitter.com/C502SKfJnj "In a single moment 58 years ago today, Rosa Parks helped change this country....................... But I couldn't find her photo." . If you look really closely, you can see the 2009 Republican Congressional minority in the back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 He didn't really tweet that pic? Really? Unfortunately, yes, he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMadCap Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Unfortunately, yes, he did. ughh. Why does he look pissed in that photo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Why does he look pissed in that photo? Probably because Rosa Parks beat him to all the good publicity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 ughh. Why does he look pissed in that photo? Conflict between his "black" half (father) and his "white" half (mother) ? ? ? . I guess I'll post this before someone else does...............lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Conflict between his "black" half (father) and his "white" half (mother) ? ? ? That's why he's sitting in the middle of the bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 That's why he's sitting in the middle of the bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 ughh. Why does he look pissed in that photo? There was no teleprompter in the bus and it took him fifteen minutes to realize it was parked in a museum and he wasn't going to be driven in it in a parade. "If I was a freedom rider back in the 60's, I'd've looked just like Rosa Parks." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Rosa Parks didn't sit on that bus by herself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Rosa Parks didn't sit on that bus by herself. Of course not. Somebody else made that happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Of course not. Somebody else made that happen. and just like Obama is there. Rosa Parks was staged on that bus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Liberal law prof: Obama’s unconstitutional power grabs are creating a “very dangerous and unstable system” Good stuff from Jonathan Turley at today’s House hearing on executive power. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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