Most of the media still think that the website can be brought up to speed in the nick of time.

Yet, the Federal government has built a track record of mega-failures in software design over the years. I give you the F-22 Raptor. It’s really a hunk of flying software. Take a look at its final price tag. (!)

A special language, Ada, was developed just for that plane. It famously used strong data typing to stop errors. Without a doubt much of the F-22 Ada code has been ported to the F-35. It’s flying software, too. In all of the travails, no-one admits that software headaches completely dominated these planes during development.

In comparison, the Healthcare.gov website is scaffolded with lies and self-delusions. For political reasons/ election fraud the underlying regulations were delayed until the tyrant was re-selected. Then the fun began.

The only part of the Hub that’s working is the quick default to Medicaid. Naturally, since the resources dedicated to Medicaid have scarcely changed, rationing is going to occur on a massive scale.

One can only conclude that 0-care is Barry’s Barbarossa. He’s painted himself into a corner that has no exit.

This is the best explanation as to why Reid went nuclear. He’s looking at a lame duck president — with more than three years in office. We’d have to look back to Andrew Johnson to find a president so isolated.

In the meantime, the world is going to Hell in a hand basket.

Our navy is largely sitting in port… our army no longer trains!

It’s now obvious that Bibi is going to HAVE to do what must be done. After which, Iranian furies will be inflicted far and wide.

As LBJ could tell you, even appearing to lose a war punks one’s poll numbers.

I can easily imagine Barry threatening Israel with an economic boycott — and termination of military exports — already.

He’s put certified kooks in critical positions of authority. When not zany, his high officials are light-weights, dillies.

The ramping American real estate market really represents a flight from the US Dollar. It’s the number one mechanism for shorting the US Dollar. This gambit is what’s driving Wall Street mega-hedge funds into epic real estate sprees — buying SFH far and wide.

This effort is widely misinterpreted as an effort to be mega-landlords — collecting rents far and wide. But a quick glance at the economics indicates that collecting rents is NOT a priority. Shorting mortgages IS the priority.

In this the hedge funds are merely repeating the one-way bets of six years ago. They design to unload their exposure before the proles get hip to just what a turkey the smart money is unloading into their pension funds. All that is required is to wine and dine the idiots in charge of these asset pools. You’d be staggered to find out just how naive, vain and stupid that crowd is. They’re not appointed on merit — not by a long shot. Old school ties count for far, far, more.

And in the meantime, intangible capital is being utterly destroyed by ZIRP — thank you Mr. Fed.

ZIRP makes lending to small businesses very unattractive. They suffer all the slings and arrows of Barry’s maladministration — without any of the cronyist advantages. All in all, very poor bets.

As bad as Barry is, Europe is even zanier. Hollande is absolutely crushing the French economy. The compounded taxes paid by the proles over there are frightful. Not surprisingly France can’t get out of first gear.

There is no army here.

Walker in the Whitehouse for 8 years.

Cruz appointed to the Supreme Court.

Rand is majority leader in the Senate.

Karl Rove and Chris Christie affirm their tea-party status.

It is very clear that Obama and Holder have picked sides.

I saw Scott Walker interviewed on Greta Van Susteren’s show. From that interview it’s obvious why he has been able to win in a mostly democrat state. He is typically middle class in appearance and manner. Good looking enough, but not Hollywood handsome. He is earnest, speaks his thoughts clearly, and comes off as honest. He talks about how his policies will improve the situation in Wisconsin while refraining from going too negative on his opponents. He now has a record of success to run on for another term as governor. Mild mannered though he be, we all know he was very courageous in his battle with the unions and the recall attempt. IMO, he is a formidable candidate for 2016 because of all those points. His Mr. Smith (everyman) persona will gain him votes from the mushy independents (as it did in Wisconsin) and that is where (because of the math) national elections are won.

Exactly! They have a childlike belief/faith that the money will always be there if they go through proper ceremonies. They have no understanding of human nature and how humans react to risk and reward. Adam Smith saw how wealth is created and wrote it all down in “the Wealth of Nations,” but all they seem to be able to understand is a weird faith in government as the source of wealth creation “You didn’t build that – the government was the prime mover and helper behind you that made it possible.” No, what creates wealth is private property laws enforced by impartial courts coupled with individual efforts to improve one’s standard of living. Extraction of natural resources – agriculture, mining, oil and gas drilling, timbering, fishing, hydro-electric plants, etc. – is the bedrock on which are built the creative, manufacturing industries. From those activities flow the service industries – banking, stock markets, insurance, transportation, retailing, healthcare, etc. – which make the basic wealth creating activities more efficient and spread the wealth to all corners of a society.

Back in the 1800s the idea of communes was popular in the U.S. The city of Greeley, Colorado was started as a commune and was backed by Horace Greeley who was enthralled by the idea. It didn’t take too long before it was plain that some people were willing to work harder, longer, and smarter than most. And that some did little, but wanted an equal share of the crops and other products of the settlement. The commune fell apart because – human nature. (The progressives would claim excessive greed by those who worked harder.) The facts are out there, but the progressives keep clinging to the belief (and yes, it does resemble religious faith) that it just hasn’t been done right.