Casey sent me this one.

All I can say is GMAFB! Here is link to the article. Thanks to Dan for the link.

I can say one more thing. If they really want a feminist programming language, it would have to use five times the instructions that a normal programming language would use.

MrG., from My Daily Kona sent me the following e-mail which I have edited slightly.

I am “MrG” from the “my Daily Kona” website that is on your blogroll. I have read your website for several years I guess, and you have on your older posts commented about the crappy roll-out of the ACA website and the lack of testing.

To give you a bit of a background, I am a Boy scout leader and I was talking with one of the other leaders waiting for a parade to start and that person told me a few things about healthcare.gov.Obunglercare. I was talking to another parent at my sons scout troop. This person was talking about a a major software upgrade roll out they they are worried about and I commented ” as long as your roll out works better than the Obamacare website roll-out , then y’all would be fine.” This person replied that ” My company is the one that rolled out the ACA website.”

*Oh Snap* I thought. I replied ” You work for CGI Federal?” This person nodded in the affirm. I, without thinking, immediately asked ” What happened, was there any test of the system before the roll-out?”

This person replied “There was so much bureaucratic interference in the program, all these people wanted their input into the product, but then wouldn’t make a decision and punted it to another bureaucrat who then shuffled it to another one. We had no guidance on exactly what they wanted…Just vague *suggestions*. We were stumbling around trying to do what they asked. There was no leadership or direction given. We kept changing the codes, adding things and then removing things….per their many requests, but no firm guidance. And they would not change the date of the rollout, political considerations”

I was thinking.*yep, the bureaucrat play…Duck and cover….Don’t make a decision…you might be held responsible by those above you and get demoted.* And people want the government to run your healthcare?

One of the classes I taught at IBM was a three week boot camp for IBM contract programmers. We increased their programming skills, but we also had a module on contracts. In our first class, which was a test class, we had the students get requirements for a contract from a fake customer. The contract was for giving the customer a turnkey system that the students would install and customize.

We had an actual contract manager play the customer IT manager and an actual IBM contract programmer playing his lead programmer. When it was time, four days later, to get the manager to sign the contract that the students, who had split up in groups, had drawn up, the manager would ask them to do a little add on to the contract, which involved adding a T1 line to a remote programmer. The correct answer was, “We will have to negotiate another contract for that.” The real manager, who had sat across the table from a real customer told the students, that he had fallen for this crap in the real world and it had been the difference from making a profit or losing money on the contract. In later classes, one of our senior instructors played the manager, but used the same script.

This was a fun class to teach, but gave me an insight into what I knew went on in the healthcare.gov fiasco. It’s hard to hit a moving target.

When I first arrived in Atlanta in 1985 for my new job as a large system instructor, where I taught 3081, 3084, (top of the line mainframes) and mass storage (an IBM tape library system that made me a lot of money when I was a Customer Engineer trained on it) IBM had just signed a contract to upgrade the FAA computer system. Many of our instructors were promoted to take on project manager jobs on this project. This was my first glimpse in how gummint contracts worked.

I remember when I was a CE in St. Louis and had to take a few callouts at the Army Records Center, I was shocked at how old their equipment was. They were still using an old 360 mainframe. Of course, their 1403 printers were ancient. This was because the gummint bought their technology and as the result of the way contracting was done, they bought obsolete equipment. So it was with the FAA project.

When I first got to Atlanta, we were were teaching the 3090 processor which was still not general availability. That happened shortly after I got there. The FAA was gonna use 3083 processors since they were state of the art when the contracts were being drawn up. By the time everything had been approved, the processors were being installed, the 308x product line was downlevel and the next generation processors, the 3090’s were now top of the line. So, the FAA project was not using the latest and greatest. By the time all of the systems were online and working, the next generation processors after the 3090, were close to being launched.

Since the gummint buys rather than leasing technology, by the time the contracts are approved and the hardware is installed, they are only a few years away from being obsolete. That’s how fast things work in the IT industry.

I also knew that due to the gummint bueaucracy, requirements would change on a daily basis and dealing with the gummint bureaucracy would be like trying to nail Jello to a wall. As we have watched the rollout, my friend Cindy told me, “This is working just as you predicted.” Of course it has. To make this work, you need to have the requirements set in stone. You can’t continue to move the goal posts and expect everything to work. Of course when you have an administration that won’t take any responsibility for any of its actions from the top to the bottom with nobody willing to make a decision, a project is doomed to fail.

The legislation sucked. In a hurry to pass a bill, the Dimocrats rammed through a bill that no one read, using legislative tricks, with not a single Republican voting for it. It should be no surprise that the implementation of Obummercare would be a train wreck. This is what you get with one party rule. This is what you get when you elect someone, on the basis of skin color, with no legislative or executive experience. So we proved we weren’t racist, even though Obumbler supporters still claim we are. The country elected an incompetent racist buffoon, whose only skill is reading a TelePrompTer, not once, but twice to prove we weren’t racist.

This is what happens when affirmative action meets the Peter Principle. I saw it happen a few times at IBM. We are now seeing it writ large and all of us are paying the price.

Elections have consequences. We’re doomed!

Today’s Prickly City comic strip nailed it today.

“The press has reported that the website is all fixed up Senator Kevin.”

“But it’s a lie. Why would they say that?”

“They want it to work, sir. Fake it ’til you make it.”

“Self delusion madness! Lies! Their evilness knows no bounds.”

Yep! That pretty much covers it. The press is heavily invested in Obungler. Remember, they made him. They did not vet him. We knew more about Sarah Palin a week after McRINO chose her as his running mate than we’ll ever know about Jug Hussein Ears Downgrade.

Remember all the stories on the economy like “green shoots” “recovery summer” “funemployment”? The fact is that after five years of Obamanomics, unemployment remains over 7%, the longest run in my lifetime, and that 7% is not even the real number. The real number is somewhere between 12% and 14%. Less people are working than when Obeavis took office and, ironically, the people hit the hardest are blacks. How do ya like that Hope and Change bros? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No pity here. You voted skin color and you got screwed which is what the Dimocrats do best with regard to blacks. Keep them poor, uneducated, and dependent upon gummint.

Imagine how the LSM would be reporting this stuff if a Republican was in office. Remember when the economy was recovering under Bush 43 and the unemployment rate was 5%? The LSM labeled it a “jobless recovery”. Now, they’re saying that 7% unemployment is the “new normal”. “Fake it ’til you make it.”

The LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party so much wants Obummercare, Obumbler’s single accomplishment of his administration, to succeed that they keep covering “successes” like Kentucky where 60,00 people have signed up. Unfortunately, only about 12,500 have actually signed up for real plans. The other 48,000 have signed up for Medicaid, which the feds will pay for for 2 years. After that, the portion the feds will pay for drop. The smart states, like mean old Georgia where we hate the poor leeches and parasites, didn’t fall for this scam, much to the dismay of the rat bastard commies at the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation who have written editorials about what a hard hearted bastard Governor Deal is.

Another “success story” is in Washington State or, at least that’s what the LSM has been saying for the last few weeks. Turns out it wasn’t such a success after all. I’m really surprised that they’re reporting this.

For the second week in a row, the Washington Healthplanfinder website is down, and it’s causing problems for people who are dealing with billing issues. Some of them say the website is mistakenly debiting their accounts.

Shannon Bruner of Indianola logged on to her checking account Monday morning, and found she was almost 800 dollars in the negative.

“The first thing I thought was, ‘I got screwed,’” she said.

That’s what gummint does best. This is what is known as a zipless fuck. You didn’t even have to remove your clothing. Ronald Reagan said that the ten most feared words in the English language were: I’m from the gummint and I’m here to help you. And if you think it’s bad now, wait until the most feared gummint agency gets involved. Don’t pay your premiums? Here comes the IRS and the IRS doesn’t have to follow due process. With the IRS rather than being innocent until proven guilty, you’re guilty until proven innocent. This really needs to change, but it won’t.

The Bruners enrolled for insurance on the Washington Healthplanfinder website, last October. They say they selected the bill pay date to be December 24th. Instead the Washington Healthplanfinder drafted the 835 dollar premium Monday.

Josh Bruner started his own business this year as an engineering recruiter. They said it’s forced them to pay a lot of attention to their bills and their bank accounts.

“Big knot in my gut because we’re trying to keep it together,” said Shannon Bruner. “It’s important to me that this kind of stuff doesn’t happen.”

They’re not alone.

I’m sure. This law is gonna be the biggest gummint created disaster since the Great Depression. By trying to fix a nonexistent problem, gummint created a real problem that is affecting the middle class big time. And it’s only gonna get worse as time goes on. Wait until the business mandate kicks in, which Obeauzeau has illegally put off until after the 2014 election. How convenient.

One viewer emailed KING 5 saying, “They drafted my account this morning for a second time.”

Another woman on Facebook with a similar problem commented, “We are all in the same boat.”

“We’ve got to figure out how to get money to pay the bills for the next week or two until we have another check come through,” said Josh Bruner. “It’s just crazy.”

I wonder if this guy voted for Oblunder. I will be willing to be he did. As I’ve been saying for years, elections have consequences. A majority of voters in Washington State voted for Oboner and Dimocrats and they are getting what they voted for, good and hard. Another dash of Schandenfreude today.

Washington Healthplanfinder emailed the Bruners a few days ago telling them to log in to view their invoice, something they couldn’t do because the website has been down.

The website has been down? I thought Washingon was one of the “success stories” theat the LSM crowed about. The LSM wouldn’t lie to us would they?

The Bruners haven’t been able to get through on the helpline either. They finally contacted Healthplanfinder administrators by posting a message on their Facebook page.

Thank goodness for Facebook! By the way, how long did it take for Facebook to set up its site? Maybe the gummint should have gone to Facebook to create healthcare.gov.

I’ve got an interesting story about setting up healthcare.gov that one of my readers sent me that I’ll share in a later post. He told me everything that I expected about coding healthcare.gov.

Washington Healthplanfinder tells KING 5 their staff is looking into the problem.

Typical gummint answer.

Until it’s resolved, the couple is putting their best face forward.

“We haven’t bought anyone’s Christmas gifts yet,” said Shannon Bruner. “We’re just kind of waiting.”

Boo freakin’ who!

“We wrote a check to our nanny last week, it isn’t going to work,” said Josh Bruner. “So she can’t get paid.”

Wait a minute! They’ve got a nanny? Regular daycare is not good enough for them? There’s a place to cut expenses right there. They sound like typical liberal Obutthead voters. I’m sorry that I can’t find any sympathy in my heart for these folks. As I have said many times “Elections have consequences”.

Bill sent me this one.

Vicki sent me this. And since Monday Is FOD at the The Criplets this is appropriate.

Click on image to enlarge.

Went back in the pun files and found this one from Richard.

Dodge City was a rough town. Nevertheless, it had an excellent theatre group. One time it planned to perform the Swan Lake Ballet.

On the day of dress rehearsal, it was discovered that moths had gotten into the tutus. Everything was ruined. The producer placed a call to the Acme Costume Company in Wichita and learned they had plenty of tutus. The proprietor promised to ship the much needed garments over on a special train. They should arrive in plenty of time for the opening.

Back at Dodge, everyone was in a big hurry. Someone needed to go down to the depot and fetch the tutus. Butch, the biggest, toughest guy in town offered to do it. So he went to the station and sat down. When the station master saw Butch, he went over and asked if he might be of help. Butch replied, (more…)