2nd Term, Part VI: Burnin' down the House

[burd]

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I have to admit we libtards are as guilty as anybody of intolerant stereotyping when it comes to social conservatives and T'pers. Strangely, we have failed or refused to listen to the one message that we could learn from the most: that we should hate the sin but love the sinner. We need to get these people back in school, teach them skills. Most of all, we need to be patient.

We need to take a little ownership of the problem.

 

[Priceless]

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I have to admit we libtards are as guilty as anybody of intolerant stereotyping when it comes to social conservatives and T'pers. Strangely, we have failed or refused to listen to the one message that we could learn from the most: that we should hate the sin but love the sinner. We need to get these people back in school, teach them skills. Most of all, we need to be patient.

We need to take a little ownership of the problem.

What problem are you talking about? LePage's 47% crap is no more truthful than Romney's 47% crap.

 

[busterman62]

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More Mainers didn't want LePage than did. In a run off there is no way he would have won. He won in part by making Cutler look like his #1 opponent causing voters to abandon a weak democrat (who would have won in a 2-way race) out of fear that Cutler had the best chance of winning. Cutler was behind until very late in the race.

The guy is an idiot. He did play the election well for someone with a 37-40% vote ceiling though.

He has a mandate from the people of Maine

 

[geezer]

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Here's a great photo gallery of things people like better than Congress, which include cockroaches, colonoscopies, and Donald Trump.

 

[BassAle]

Back when Jeffords retired in Vt, and when Snowe retired in Maine, there was an independent running in both races. In those races the Dems made the decision to step aside and live with a Socialist and an indepdenent (not sure what King's leanings were before he became gov) instead of running their own person and it by and large worked out. Same thing applies here.

In addition to practicing law King worked for Senator William Hathaway (D Maine) for a few years in the 70s. Then in the 80s he made millions in renewable energy and was not active politically until financing his own run for governor.

 

[walrus]

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He has a mandate from the people of Maine

He has a mandate from his 38% thats for sure.

I think he wins another term as the other 2 candidates suck beyond belief. One is slippery, the other one dumber than a box of rocks

 

[Rover]

I have to admit we libtards are as guilty as anybody of intolerant stereotyping when it comes to social conservatives and T'pers. Strangely, we have failed or refused to listen to the one message that we could learn from the most: that we should hate the sin but love the sinner. We need to get these people back in school, teach them skills. Most of all, we need to be patient.

We need to take a little ownership of the problem.

Yes and no. I never had a problem going to church of my wife's faith and had a super holy roller Ned Flanders type sitting next to me at work that I got along great with.

The people who deserve scorn are those who try to ram their morality down your throat. Somebody who tells you that we should all try to lead moral lives aren't a problem. Someone who tells you God endorses them personally and wants us to cut Medicare to pay for tax cuts for the rich gets what they deserve.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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He has a mandate from his 38% thats for sure.

I think he wins another term as the other 2 candidates suck beyond belief. One is slippery, the other one dumber than a box of rocks

So, 38% will vote for someone who blatantly lies and calls 47% of their neighbors deadbeats?

Wow, nice.

 

[Priceless]

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So, 38% will vote for someone who blatantly lies and calls 47% of their neighbors deadbeats?

Wow, nice.

I think he'll top out this time at 33%. Michaud will get around 45% to win while Cutler and whomever else runs (it's Maine, so it wouldn't be a real race without 5 or 6 candidates) get 22%. If Cutler drops out Mike has a potential landslide victory.

 

[walrus]

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So, 38% will vote for someone who blatantly lies and calls 47% of their neighbors deadbeats?

Wow, nice.

47% is so far out there, not sure who would believe that but they will.

 

[walrus]

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If Cuter drops out Mike has a potential landslide victory.

I believe that also, lepages only chance is a well run campaign by Cutler. I don't see Cutler dropping out of the race, his ego is as big as a dump truck

 

[Old Pio]

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Zzzzzzzz....did you knuckledraggers ever worry that the interest in signing up isn't a good thing for your side? Eventually these people will get through, which doesn't bode well for your position.

For the record, this is annoying but not surprising given how long it takes for Obama's team to implement things once passed into law. I'd also point to Dodd-Frank as something that's taken way too long by its own design to fully get going. Now that he's finally learned how to negotiate with the opposition, this is the biggest complaint I have about his Presidency.

Which is precisely why nobody (but you) cares what you think about anything. Spin all you want. This rollout is an unmitigated disaster. And time is not on Neville's side. "Death Spiral" doesn't refer to an air show.

 

[Priceless]

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Priceless

Can you keep us posted on progress? Maybe you can wrangle a free trip to DC for a photo op!

I just signed in and I'm not eligible because I'm on Medicare. However, they are sending my information to MaineCare to see if I qualify. I won't because my "income" is too high (go figure).

 

[pirate]

Which is precisely why nobody (but you) cares what you think about anything. Spin all you want. This rollout is an unmitigated disaster. And time is not on Neville's side. "Death Spiral" doesn't refer to an air show.

What'd ya want for $300 million? Rubber biscuit?

 

[St. Clown]

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What'd ya want for $300 million? Rubber biscuit?

Even before I got to the Rubber biscuit line, I was reading it like the line from the song just based upon the "What'd ya". Ha!

 

[Rover]

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Which is precisely why nobody (but you) cares what you think about anything. Spin all you want. This rollout is an unmitigated disaster. And time is not on Neville's side. "Death Spiral" doesn't refer to an air show.

Opie Opie Opie, you got your face used as toilet paper by the Dems in the last election and I'm the one nobody's listening to? Oookaaayyyy...

Problem for you knucks' is that you cried wolf too many times. First Mittens was gonna be Prez. Then Benghazi was Resignation material. The the made up IRS scandal. Then Ted Cruz had some brilliant plan to defund Obamacare. How much losing do you have to do already?

Tech problems can and will be fixed, because everybody has experienced a tech glitch at some point in their lives which eventually got corrected. In case you haven't noticed over in the nursing home, people haven't given up on technology because of that fact. Same thing applies here.

 

[Priceless]

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Tech problems can and will be fixed, because everybody has experienced a tech glitch at some point in their lives which eventually got corrected. In case you haven't noticed over in the nursing home, people haven't given up on technology because of that fact. Same thing applies here.

That's not true! Computers have always been glitch-free! They are all like HAL and have a 100% track record. I used to work tech support for Microsoft and the only calls we got were when someone dialed the wrong number. Microsoft products are not only always devoid of glitches but are also idiot-proof. Just look at when the government rolled out Social Security. Smooth as silk. No, 50 years from now the only thing people will remember about the ACA was how poorly the website worked and how that totally destroyed the program.

 

[Rover]

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That's not true! Computers have always been glitch-free! They are all like HAL and have a 100% track record. I used to work tech support for Microsoft and the only calls we got were when someone dialed the wrong number. Microsoft products are not only always devoid of glitches but are also idiot-proof. Just look at when the government rolled out Social Security. Smooth as silk. No, 50 years from now the only thing people will remember about the ACA was how poorly the website worked and how that totally destroyed the program.

Its worth noting that both the perscription drug benefit as well as the Romneycare rollout also experienced similar problems. Tech stuff is buggy. I remember that from working on an Oracle conversion project and several mergers. While of course they need to get it fixed, steady improvement plus having it up and running around Thanksgiving should do the trick.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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Its worth noting that both the perscription drug benefit as well as the Romneycare rollout also experienced similar problems. Tech stuff is buggy. I remember that from working on an Oracle conversion project and several mergers. While of course they need to get it fixed, steady improvement plus having it up and running around Thanksgiving should do the trick.

It's still an epic fail. It's pretty obvious (I work in IT) that their testing protocol for this project was non-existent. Sad thing is the reason all this software and hardware is so cheap is no one bothers spending any money on quality, testing, or error handling. That's why I cannot for the life of me figure out why this website cost so much.

If I was in charge of this project I would have called amazon. I'll bet they could have gotten me the right people to do the job and it would have been a hell of a lot cheaper.

 

[St. Clown]

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It's still an epic fail. It's pretty obvious (I work in IT) that their testing protocol for this project was non-existent. Sad thing is the reason all this software and hardware is so cheap is no one bothers spending any money on quality, testing, or error handling. That's why I cannot for the life of me figure out why this website cost so much.

If I was in charge of this project I would have called amazon. I'll bet they could have gotten me the right people to do the job and it would have been a hell of a lot cheaper.

Wow, I agree with Scooby. There must be some sarcasm in that post I'm not catching.

I work as a business systems analyst, we talk to the people with a stake in the game, write the requirements based upon those talks, work with the developers to help iron out any issues in the requirements, and then functionally test and stress test the bejeebers out of the system prior to the UAT test date and finally then roll out to the production environment. We just rolled out a big project on the 8th, found a couple minor fixes (formatting issues and the like) that will be handled in the next scheduled release, and one "major" flaw that somehow didn't show up in testing even though we tested for that exact scenario. The fix for the major item - which only impacted some 5% of the volume - went in on the 21st.