The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results - 01.31.14

Alea iacta est…The Council Has Spoken!, the votes have been cast, and we have the results  for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living – Marcus Tulius Cicero

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives – Samuel Johnson

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth- Voltaire

This week’s winner, Joshuapundit’s Obama’s Loving Requiem For A Prominent Communist – And Mine is an obituary. Singer Pete Seeger passed away this week, and  President Obama saw fit to issue a handsome and fulsome ( and revealing) tribute out of the White House. Since I knew a bit about whom Pete Seeger was and about his career, I thought I’d write one of my own. Here’s a slice:

The mask is coming off, even if it never covered much to begin with.

Pete Seeger is dead today, at 94. And this is what our Dear Leader had to say about it:

“Once called “America’s tuning fork,” Pete Seeger believed deeply in the power of song. But more importantly, he believed in the power of community – to stand up for what’s right, speak out against what’s wrong, and move this country closer to the America he knew we could be. Over the years, Pete used his voice – and his hammer – to strike blows for worker’s rights and civil rights; world peace and environmental conservation. And he always invited us to sing along. For reminding us where we come from and showing us where we need to go, we will always be grateful to Pete Seeger. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Pete’s family and all those who loved him.”

Now, aside from being someone who made quite a contribution to American music, Pete Seeger was also a hard core communist and apologist for Stalin during the time when ‘Uncle Joe’ murdered over 100 million people. The forced collectivization, the murder of political opponents, the show trials, the forced famine in the Ukraine that murdered at least 3 million people, the gulags…none of it mattered at all to Pete Seeger, that ‘champion of justice and freedom’.

By his own admission, he was a red diaper baby, someone who was brought into the party by his parents and raised under what the Comintern called Party Discipline. That meant you followed the orders of the Kremlin, no questions asked. And that’s exactly what Pete Seeger did. He claimed that he ‘drifted out of the party in the 1950′s’, but he never once lifted his voice to oppose Soviet tyranny until the game was almost over, in 1982 when he made statements in favor of Poland’s Solidarity movement.

After the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact, there were some commies who woke up to what that meant and left the Party. But not Pete Seeger! Whatever Hitler was doing to the Jews was no never mind to him. As a member of the Almanac singers (later called the Weavers) with a fellow party member, Woody Guthrie, he totally followed the Moscow line, calling for America to stay out of WWII…here’s a sample lyric: “Franklin D., listen to me,/You ain’t a-gonna send me ’cross the sea.”

He and his fellow Party members lobbied aggressively against aid to Britain, American re-armament and against FDR’s selective service act, which passed in 1940 by one vote. If it hadn’t, things would have been very different after Pearl Harbor. The Almanac’s 78 recording, Songs for John Doe was so subversive even Eleanor Roosevelt, a fan of the group, denounced it.

That changed abruptly in June, 1940, when Hitler invaded Russia. Then, Seeger and his friends started singing a brand new tune, urging America to get into the war and save Stalin’s posterior. In a true 1984-style example of revisionism, Seeger and his pals had all the available copies of Songs for John Doe recalled and destroyed…although enough copies remained in a few people’s hands so that we can see exactly how hypocritical, radical and anti-American these people were.

After the war, Seeger remained active in shilling for Stalin and his successors. He was one of the leaders calling for clemency for the Rosenbergs, the spies who gave Stalin the atom bomb. Yes, the great world peace advocate had no problem with a homicidal maniac and mass murderer like Stalin getting the bomb.

In 1945, Seeger put together something called People’s Songs, Inc, an organization designed to “create, promote and distribute songs of labor and the American People.”

Here’s what the California Senate fact finding committee had to say about it:

“People’s Songs is a vital Communist front … one which has spawned a horde of lesser fronts in the fields of music, stage entertainment, choral singing, folk dancing, recording, radio transcriptions and similar fields. It especially is important to Communist proselytizing and propaganda work because of its emphasis on appeal to youth, and because of its organization and technique to provide entertainment for organizations and groups as a smooth opening wedge for Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist propaganda.”

Seeger was actually subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955, but refused to answer questions about his communist past and eventually refused to answer subpoenas. He was actually tried and convicted of contempt of Congress, but his conviction was overturned over a technicality.

Along with his commendable support for civil rights for blacks in America, Seeger continued to be a shill for the Soviets and ultra-Left causes throughout the years.

He was a big advocate of unilateral disarmament by the West, including the Soviet’s phony International Peace Petition. In spite of his image as a champion of freedom, he had nothing to say about the Soviet repression of democratic revolutions in Hungary in 1956, or in Czechoslovakia in 1968. And of course, he was a supporter of Fidel Castro and his executioner, Che Guevara.

He was predictably against the Vietnam War, but had nothing to say about the North Vietnamese gulags and fascist repression after the war, or Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge’s Killing Fields in Cambodia.
He opposed President Reagan’s rearmament of the West after the Carter years, and was huge advocate of he Nuclear Freeze Movement of the 1980s, a Soviet-sponsored initiative that would have frozen Soviet nuclear and military superiority in place and stopped Reagan from defeating the Evil Empire.

Much more at the link.

In our non-Council category, the winner was Kevin Williamson NRO for Great Caesar’s Ghost submitted by Joshuapundit. Written the day of President Obama’s SOTU snoozefest, it takes apart the entire institution with wit and savage precision. Do read it.

OK, here are this week’s full results:

Council Winners

• *First place with 5 1/3 votes!Joshuapundit - Obama’s Loving Requiem For A Prominent Communist – And Mine
• Second place with 2 2/3 votes – The Noisy Room – The New Progressive McCarthyism
• Third place with 2 votes – The Razor – China’s Rise No Longer Peaceful
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – The Right Planet – The Inequality of Equality
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – Ask Marion – The Power and Ruling Elite
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Independent Sentinel – What Obama Won’t Dare Talk About in His State of the Union Speech
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Simply Jews – Now, what will State Department say about that?
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Bookworm Room – Dachau: The bitter fruit of a terrible evil, in color
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Nice Deb – Comments on proposed IRS rule targeting the Tea Party Overwhelmingly negative
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Iran’s Next Supreme Leader
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Liberty’s Spirit – How frightening is this Hillary 2016 reality?

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 3 1/3 votes! – Kevin Williamson/NRO – Great Caesar’s Ghost submitted by Joshuapundit
• Second place with 2 2/3 votes -Sultan Knish –Totalitarians of New York submitted by The Noisy Room
• Third place with 2 1/3 votes – Dangerous Minds – It didn’t always suck to be a woman in Afghanistan submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote - The Passing Parade – The Canard Conspiracy, only vaguely by Robert Ludlum…or someone like him, only still living submitted by Simply Jews
• Fourth place with 1 vote-Watchdog Wire – Citizen Files Ethics Complaint Against Wendy Davis submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Fourth place *t* with 1 votes - Dennis Prager/National Review - What Bothers You Most?submitted by Bookworm Room
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Maggie’s Notebook – Malik Obama, Obama’s Brother Photo’d with Hamas Scarf & Slogan: ‘Jerusalem is ours – WE ARE COMING! submitted by The Independent Sentinel
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Crystal Wright/Washingtonian Times - Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie – Oh, how the mighty may fall submitted by Ask Marion
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - MoreRight.Net – Splitting Apart the United States submitted by The Razor
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - JustOneMinute – They Lost Me With ‘Hello’ submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote - Allen West – Tonight: The State of the Dictator — uh, Union submitted by VA Right!
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote - Gary Schmitt/The Weekly Standard – Privacy or Security: a False Choice submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote - Rick Moran/PJ Media - Media Not Very Curious about D’Souza Indictment submitted by Nice Deb

See you next week! Don’t forget to tune in on Monday AM for this week’s Watcher’s Forum, as the Council and their invited special guests take apart one of the provocative issues of the day with short takes and weigh in…don’t you dare miss it. And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter…..’cause we’re cool like that!

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The Council Has Spoken!! This Week’s Watcher’s Council Results - 01.24.14

The Council Has Spoken!, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

 

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.” -Sir Walter Scott, Marmion

“People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.” ― Otto Von Bismark

“There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.” - Walter Lippmann

 

This week’s winner, Joshuapundit’s Senate Intel Committee: Benghazi Was Preventable, Al Qaeda Was Involved, And The White House Knew It is my analysis of the long delayed Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the Benghazi debacle. Here’s a slice:

The bi-partisan Senate Intelligence Committee finally issued its long-delayed report on the Benghazi attack, and based on what it said, it’s pretty understandable why some of the Democrats on the committee strung things out as long as they could and fought over the wording. But some things simply give off too foul a stench for any perfume to make a difference.

The committee’s minority Republicans criticized the White House for obstructing the report, which the committee had wanted to complete much earlier, and openly accused Patrick Kennedy, U.S. undersecretary of State for Management of shielding the Obama administration from Congressional oversight.

Of course, Kennedy was also concentrating on covering his own behind. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) who normally votes with the Democrats an dis the very epitome of bi-partisanship angrily made a point of saying that Kennedy “failed to ensure that a facility he personally approved in December 2011 had the necessary security to match the heightened threat environment.”

The committee’s report said that Benghazi was entirely preventable, and that the State Department failed to increase security at the Benghazi consulate in spite numerous warnings. As I’ve mentioned on these pages before,even the Brits and the International Red Cross had pulled their people out because Benghazi, thanks to President Obama’s timely intervention had become a major headquarters for al-Qaeda and other Islamists. Anyone who knows anything about Ansar al Shariah and its connections to al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) understood that a long time ago.

The report states, unequivocally: “Individuals affiliated with terrorist groups, including AQIM, Ansar al-Sharia, AQAP, and the Mohammad Jamal Network, participated in the September 11, 2012, attacks.”

The very fact that mortars and other heavy weapons were used points to long time planning. A mortar isn’t like a Kalishnikov. It takes training, and it takes time to scope out ranges and angles of fire.

Georgia Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss summarized the report, saying,

“In spite of the deteriorating security situation in Benghazi and ample strategic warnings, the United States Government simply did not do enough to prevent these attacks and ensure the safety of those serving in Benghazi.”

Another thing that came out is that the entire ‘protest over a video’ narrative pushed by the president, Mrs. Clinton, Jay Carney, Susan Rice and goodness knows how many others was an outright lie…and just like ObamaCare, they lied knowingly, although the report doesn’t put it in such blunt terms.

What we were told – conveniently after the 2012 elections- is that the original fairy tales about the video and a spontaneous protest occurred because the situation ‘was developing.’

It wasn’t.

In fact, the FBI interviewed the Benghazi survivors over a three-day period right after the attack, when they were still being prevented from speaking to anyone. None of them reported a protest or a demonstration.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (SC) said that “The FBI confirmed to me that when they interviewed the survivors on the 15th the 16th and the 17th [of September], not one person ever mentioned anything other than a terrorist attack. No one mentioned a protest outside the consulate.”

“So, how could the Obama administration come up with a protest story if everybody on the ground during the attack said it was a terrorist attack and there was no protest?” he asked.

Trust me, the stench increases. Much more at the link.

In our non-Council category, we had a tie between Neo NeoCon with “Wendy Davis: ‘empowerment’ and the poor little woman; “struggle” and the man” submitted by The Glittering Eye,and Kevin Williamson/NRO for  The White Ghetto submitted by Joshuapundit, a beautiful and haunting portrait of Applachia.

I was torn on this one..I honestly like Wiliamson’s piece a lot more personally, but while the totals were the same Neo Neocon got more individual votes among the Council, and it’s a really nice piece, so I’m calling it that way,

Here are this week’s full results.

Council Winners

• *First place with 4 votes!-Joshuapundit - Senate Intel Committee: Benghazi Was Preventable,Al Qaeda Was Involved, And The White House Knew It
• Second place with 1 1/3 votes –Simply Jews – Bedouins of Negev
• Third Place *t* with 1 vote– The Right Planet – Hegelian Dialectics for Dummies
• Third place *t* with 1 vote –The Noisy Room – Bolstering the Marxist Vote
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote– Liberty’s Spirit – Not Surprisingly US State Department Agrees as UNESCO Cancels Jewish Cultural Exhibit…(Update) Oopsie Foggy Bottom Says “My Bad”
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Bookworm Room – Bleeding heart liberal misses football’s important lessons for our boys
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Razor – Facebook’€™s Culture of Like Breeds Conformity
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote –Nice Deb – Analysis of Rocket Used in Syria Chemical Attack Shows “Administration Narrative Not Even Close To Reality”
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – VA Right! –We Can Pay For an Unemployment Extension with a Day for a Day Delay in Obamacare Mandates
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Rhymes With Right – Does Barack Obama Seek To Reduce Americans To A State of Slavery?
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Castle Strat
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote –The Glittering Eye - Out Of Sight
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey – Arrow gets it right

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 3 votes! – Neo-Neocon – “Wendy Davis: ‘empowerment’ and the poor little woman; “struggle” and the man” submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Second place with 2 votes – Kevin Williamson/NRO – The White Ghetto submitted by Joshuapundit
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – White House Dossier -The Root of Obama’s Imperious Presidency submitted by Nice Deb
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes - Caroline Glick – The Truth Hurts submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote - Kimberley A. Strassel/WSJ – IRS Targeting and 2014 submitted by The Noisy Room
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote -  Western Journalism – The Problems of Women in Combat – From a Female Combat Vet submitted by Watcher
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes - Mahmoud Salem ( AKA Sandmonkey) – Consequences submitted by Simply Jews
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Rebuilding Freedom – Part1 – Agenda 21, Born in America, Raised by the United Nations submitted by The Right Planet
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Ace of Spades HQ - Common Core is pretty dumb submitted by Bookworm Room
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - PJ Tattler – Has Wendy Davis’ Charmed Run for Governor Started to Implode? (Update: Meltdown) submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote - Douglas Ernst – ‘White Privilege’ artist: Does it exist, or do I simply lack critical thinking skills? submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote - Rick Moran/American Thinker – Think it’s hard signing up for Obamacare? Try getting out of it submitted by VA Right!

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Protecting Hillary…
• Blue Ridge Forum – NEW: Crucial WSJ Report! Tea-Party-Gag Rule: Will Appropriators Wolf & Harris Push Back?

See you next week! Don’t forget to tune in on Monday AM for this week’s Watcher’s Forum, as the Council and their invited guests take apart one of the provocative issues of the day and weigh in…don’t you dare miss it. And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

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Watcher’s Council Nominations: Screwing The Military Edition – 01.15.14

Video: HughHewitt Paul Ryan 1-14-14

Watcher’s Council Nominations: I suppose it all comes down to what your priorities are….Hawaiian vacays, dysfunctional websites and the like versus veteran’s benefits. But when you break a promise to people who are putting their lives on the line, they simply tend to not want to do that anymore.And as Hugh Hewitt points out, the word spreads, and others make the same decision. Whether Paul Ryan realizes it or not, he’s simply playing along with what President Obama has wanted all along, even going back to 2009 when he tried to take VA benefits away from our wounded warriors to make them buy private healthcare. He wants to hollow out the military, perhaps replacing much of it with that domestic security force he’s always talked about…and has made some decent strides towards creating. The Republican establishment, who were terrified of shutting down the government in order to persuade this president to exercise some fiscal sanity and okayed the sequester instead did the same thing.

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday morning.

Council News:

This week, Ask Marion, Right Truth, David Gerstman and The Pirate’s Cove earned honorable mention status with some great articles.

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• The Colossus of Rhodey – Schooling vs. chaos
• The Political Commentator – Barack Obama’s insidious master plan for the United States?
• The Noisy Room – The Lynchpins Have Been Pulled
• The Right Planet – I’ve Had It With The GOP
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Panzer Arik
• Joshuapundit - Rohani On New Iran Nuclear Deal: “World Powers Surrendered to Iran”
• Liberty’s Spirit – Texas and California: Different Sides, Same Coin
• Simply Jews – Chomsky the Mastermind: where only the eagles dare
• VA Right! - Eric ‘Crazy Ivan’ Cantor Does About Face on Conservatives – Embraces Liberalism, Amnesty, Obamacare
• Bookworm Room – Upworthy and Good Men Project: Progressive sites for people seeking to save their souls through politics
• The Glittering Eye - The Tip of the Iceberg
• The Razor – Cliff’s Notes for Debunking Conspiracy Theories
• Rhymes With Right – Anti-Catholic Rhetoric At USNews.Com
• Nice Deb – The IRS Is Poised To Silence Conservatives Again – What You Can Do (Video)
• The Mellow Jihadi – Drive em hard-drive em dirty

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Two Marriages, Two Political Power Deals, One Big Question
• Right Truth – ‘Lone Survivor’ – The Movie
• David Gerstman/Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion – Believing in make-believe peace
• The Pirate’s Cove – Weather Channel: Warming Pause Isn’t Really What You Think

Non-Council Submissions

• The First Street Journal – John Kerry and the Middle East peace process submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Sultan Knish - Why People Fail submitted by The Political Commentator
• Mark Steyn – Global warming’s glorious ship of fools submitted by The Noisy Room
• The Weekly Standard – What Catastrophe? submitted by The Right Planet
• Commentary – A Tale Of Two Surges submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Amil Imani – An Open Letter To The God Of Islam submitted by Joshuapundit
• Fred Kagan/Weekly Standard – Gates at War submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Nick Nipclose – Counterpunch Defends Neo-Nazism submitted by Simply Jews
• Reason.Com – They Lied submitted by VA Right!
• To Put It Bluntly - A Preferred Standard For Lawyers submitted by Bookworm Room
• The Dignified Rant – Kerry Responds to Nigerian Email Business Opportunities, Too submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Edward Luce/FT.com – The Tide is Rising For America’s Libertarians submitted by The Razor
• Ed Hubbard/Big Jolly Politics – Judge Denise Pratt, Please Resign; Fellow Republicans, Please Defeat Judge Pratt if She Does Not Resign submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Byron York/Washington Examiner - What if Americans rebel against the Obamacare mandate? submitted by Nice Deb
• Gates Of Vienna – Passion submitted by The Watcher
• Michelle Malkin – Beware the left-wing-funded “Main Street” Republicans submitted by Watcher

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"America's Mama Grizz!" - Wild Bill [video]

Video:  "America's Mama Grizz!" -  Wild Bill

Listen up… Palin is one classy yet tough American woman who defeated the left wing media smear machine and gives hope for good men and women everywhere to run for office.

“By the Way… If you want to save this country, don’t even consider Chris Christie or Paul Ryan as a presidential candidate, Republicans; it’s time to get real America, it’s time to focus and create the opportunity for Truth to be heard. How? By speaking it and not shrinking back from the PC liars!”  …PBN  (And Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are just variations of what we have had for the past 5-years who were involved in all the scandals and screw-ups in Obamaland!)

“It is also time to stop listening to the propaganda that has been fed us, over and over again, by the Progressives on both sides, by the RINOs and Establishment Republicans and by the ruling elite which includes the mainstream media whose job it is to inform the public and report the truth of what is going on without bias… not to work hand-in-hand with one side or the other and spout their opinions instead of facts without noting that they are editorializing!”

Sarah Palin is a contender and she could win in 2016 if we, the American people, wake-up, stand-up and really want to turn things around!!  We all need to educate ourselves and share the truth about Palin, the Tea Party and other patriots under attack including Ted Cruz, Mile Lee, Rand Paul, and anyone else who stands up to the entrenched beltway politicians, as well as educate everyone about the Progressive media! We need a million more Sarah Palins to stand-up, to step-up and to stand with her!!

 Sarah Palin: The Undefeated

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The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results – 10/25/13

The Watcher’s Council:

South Carolina Tea Party Coalition: The Tea Party movement may only be a few years old, but the beginning of the movement is often misunderstood and misreported. While the tea party is often portrayed as being purely an anti-Obama movement, the truth is that the Republican Party has always been as much a target as President Obama and his administration.

Once again, the Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match-up.

This week we had a tie in our Council category between Joshuapundit’s The Dirty Secret Behind ObamaCare No One’s Talking About and The Right Planet’s ObamaSoft — The World’s Worst Rollout in History, who applied his knowledge of software engineering to give us a wonderful and well written in-depth look at exactly how big the colossal failure of the ObamaCare rollout was.

In accordance to our by-laws, that means I get to put on my Watcher’s hat and break the tie, and there’s no question – The Right Planet takes the honors this week!

Here’s a slice:

Watching the disastrous rollout of the online healthcare exchanges has really left me shaking my head, and not just for the obvious reasons. The rollout of Obamacare has been described as nothing short of abysmal, leaving some to question why the administration would go ahead with the launch of a busted site. Numerous problems have plagued the debut of the Obamacare healthcare exchanges; and a number of experts are questioning the soundness of the site’s architecture.

But Obamacare supporters are attempting to slough off all the errors associated with the online exchanges as simple “glitches”–to be “expected” with such a revolutionary, comprehensive web-based system.

Well, if there’s something I do know a bit about, it’s software engineering. My background is in client-server development with an emphasis on web applications. Developing distributed applications that must communicate with multiple servers and clients was my field of expertise. I designed relational datebase schemas and ER diagrams; I modeled and mapped the application layers to the data layers using UML and OOD, I wrote the complex SQL queries and stored procedures to access the data layer from application layer; and I dealt with the interface issues and graphical design on the front-end as well. It’s been about five years since I worked for a consulting firm as a software engineer. So forgive me if I may use some “old school” terms in this article. But I’d like to take a deeper look at this whole healthcare software disaster known as healthcare.gov from purely the software engineering perspective.

First, on a bit of a sidenote, I’m surprised by the reliance on a web interface to implement the state healthcare exchanges. Is the assumption that the 30-40 million that are allegedly uninsured and desperately need Obamacare have access to an iPad, laptop or computer? Ironically, in spite of Obamacare (a.k.a Affordable Care Act) and all promises contrary, estimates are there will still be 30 million left uninsured. But I digress.

The debut of healthcare.gov is one of the worst software rollouts I’ve ever witnessed. The president was forced to hold an emergency press conference in the Rose Garden, playing the part of Salesman-in-Chief. The administration and the liberal media are portraying all the software errors as “glitches.” Well, FYI to the liberal media and the CEO of Obamasoft, we don’t refer to fatal program errors as “glitches,” not in software world.

The preferred description for a so-called software “glitch” is a bug. Almost all software contains bugs of some kind. That’s why updates, patches and new versions of software will always be the norm. People aren’t perfect, nor is technology. Software is “alive.” You can’t just code it once and leave it at that; it must constantly be refactored and improved, since technology constantly changes. The big difference between a bug and an error is, typically, a bug will not cause the application (program) to freeze or crash.

For those who have no clue about the software development process, it might help to start off with a bit off a primer on some technical terms and concepts that will hopefully give a better understanding on the challenges of developing and implementing the healthcare.gov online exchanges.

The term application has an important meaning in software engineering. In a general sense, a software application can be thought of as a computer program. But, in a strictly technical sense, a software application is commonly comprised of numerous computer programs.

There are significant differences between what is called a stand-alone application and a web application. A stand-alone application is a computer program like Microsoft Word that installs directly to your computer’s local hard-drive (HD). A web application resides on a remote computer (server), not the client computer’s local hard-drive, and must be accessed via an internet connection. Typically a web application is accessed via a web browser like Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, etc. This is referred to as a client-server architecture–meaning: two separate computer programs communicating with each other.

Much more at the link.

In our non-Council category, the winner was Mark Steyn with Whose Islam? submitted by Joshuapundit… in which Steyn wonders out loud at the West’s strange insistence that terrorism fomented in the name of Islam has nothing to do with Islam. Do read it.

Okay, here are this week’s full results. Only Rhymes With Right was unable to vote this time, but was not subject to the usual 2/3 vote penalty:

Council Winners

• *First place with 4 1/3 votes! – The Right Planet – ObamaSoft — The World’s Worst Rollout in History
• Second place with 3 1/3 votes – Joshuapundit – The Dirty Secret Behind ObamaCare No One’s Talking About
• Third place with 1 2/3 votes – Liberty’s Spirit – Cultural Relativism and the Decline in Societal Decency
• Fourth place with 1 1/3 votes – Bookworm Room – Yale Prof. offers a revealing glimpse into the Ivy League’s epistemic closure
• Fifth place with 1 vote – VA Right! – Obamacare Now Officially a Laughing Stock – Time to Pile On!
• Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Mellow Jihadi – Sefton, a cavalry horse who refused to die
• Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Noisy Room – The Tea Party And The Mad Hatter
• Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Nice Deb – ACORN Offshoot Tapped To Help With Multi-State ObamaCare ‘Navigator’ Drive
• Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Political Commentator – Bill de Blasio for Mayor? Will the official color of NYC be changed to red?
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – The Future of Counter Terrorism
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Razor – League of Denial Seals The Deal For This NFL Fan

Non-Council Winners

• *First place with 4 votes! – Mark Steyn – Whose Islam? submitted by Joshuapundit
• Second place *t* with 2 2/3 votes – Caroline Glick – Israel and the new Munich submitted by Noisy Room
• Second place *t* with 2 2/3 votes – Yuval Levin/NRO – Assessing The Exchanges submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – The Tower – Iranian President, Supreme Leader Rail Against “Zionist Regime” submitted by Simply Jews
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Sarah Palin – D.C’s ‘Corrupt Bastards Club’ submitted by The Watcher
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – Yale Global Online – The Dragon’s Spear: China’s Asymmetric Strategy submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Strata-Sphere – Anatomy Of A Government FUBAR ObamaCare Style submitted by The Right Planet
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Narratively – Nick Brown Smelled Bull submitted by The Razor
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Newsbusters – Dem Rep. Steve Cohen: Tea Party Republicans Are ‘Domestic Enemies’ We Took Oath To Defend Against submitted by Rhymes With Right

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Hypocrisy… And the Devil
• The Independent Sentinel – Obama Plans to Give Billions to Iran If They Keep Talking to Him
• The Pirate’s Cove – If You Won’t Reduce Your Big Carbon Footprint You Hate Children

See you next week! Don’t forget to tune in on Monday AM for this week’s Watcher’s Forum, as the Council and their invited special guests take apart one of the provocative issues of the day with short takes and weigh in… don’t you dare miss it. And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter… ’cause we’re cool like that!

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The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results

Photo Credit: the NoisyRoom

The GOP goes the way of the Whigs — long live the Tea Party!!!

Whether the Establishment GOP is reformed or a 3rd Party emerges… the winds of change are blowing

Conservatism on the Rise and new coalitions are being forged…

You know winds have shifted when Charles Krauthammer notes that Ted Cruz and the Tea Party were the winners of the shutdown fight!! And then Bloomberg BusinessWeek spins mistruths and lies to convince you otherwise…

Alea iacta est…The Watcher’s Council (10.18.13) has spoken, the votes have been cast, and we have the results  for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. – Sir Winston Churchill

“We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.” - Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini

If you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. - The Book of Esther, 4-14

This week’s winner, Joshuapundit’s The Ayatollahs Laugh – Iran’s Nukes And The New ‘Red Lines’ is the sordid tale of how the Iranians are already using President Obama’s ‘re-engagement’ with Iran to gain time for their nuclear weapons program, what’s apparently going on behind the scenes and the effect this is having in the Middle East. Here’s a slice:

Now that the talks on Iran’s illicit nuclear program have started in Geneva, the Iranians are already revealing that they’re a farce that will mean nothing, just as they always have.

As the latest round of talks was being scheduled, Majlis Speaker and former Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said that Iran has more enriched uranium than it needed and said that it could be used as a bargaining chip with the West, referring to a previous plan advanced by Russia to enrich Iran’s uranium outside Iran,ostensibly to prevent any weaponization.

The day before the talks, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Iranian state TV that “Shipping out the [enriched] material is a red line for Iran,” and that it would not even be considered.

In fact, at this point the only thing the Iranians are saying they’ll negotiate is the level and quantity of enriched uranium and the type and number of centrifuges…in exchange for a complete lifting of sanctions:

“We are supposed to enter into a trust-building path with the West,” Araqchi said. “In their point of view, trust-building means taking some steps on the Iranian nuclear issue, and in our view, trust is made when the sanctions are lifted.”

And trust, of course will take time, from the Iranians viewpoint.As much time as possible. Meanwhile, the centrifuges are spinning.And Iran admits to already having 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of 20 percent-enriched uranium, a form that can be quickly upgraded for weapons use. That’s within spitting distance of what’s needed for a nuclear weapon, and based on their previous track record the Iranians might well have a lot more than that hidden away.

The Obama Administration has also publicly signaled its willingness to quickly drop the sanctions on Iran as part of negotiations.

In fact, according to the terms of the talks President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to, the Iranians can even continue to enrich uranium freely while the talks continue. And while those talks go on, the Iranians are also taking advantage of the diplomatic engagement to conceal materials and fortify their nuclear sites.

So, where does this leave us? Let’s summarize:

President Obama has apparently accepted the Iranian position that they have the right to enrich uranium.He has done this in spite of the regime’s support of terrorism, its complicity in 9/11, it’s history of duplicity and lies on its nuclear program, and its often expressed hatred for The Great Satan, as the Iranian regime refers to America.

President Obama has swallowed assurances by Iran that they have no interest in nuclear weapons, that Iran’s nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes ( which is why they kept it hidden and clandestine for so long), and that Iran’s Supreme Leader the Ayatollah Khamenei issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons..even though he didn’t , and no record of the supposed ‘fatwa’ exists.

The Iranians will be allowed to continue enriching uranium. We have no way of verifying how much or to what degree, or really anything much while the talks continue and perhaps even after they’re completed.President Obama has also apparently accepted the Iranian demand that enriched uranium will stay in Iran under Iran’s control.

No mention at all has been made of closing down the top secret Iranian nuclear plant at Fordo, or its heavy water plant at Arak, which has no peaceful application, but can only be used to drive a reactor manufacturing weapons grade plutonium, a second path to nuclear weapons.

And President Obama and his team are willfully ignoring the fact that once you have the capability of enriching uranium to any degree and a full fuel cycle, you’re able able to produce nuclear weapons. They are also apparently willing ignore the fact that a peaceful nuclear program can exist without requiring uranium enrichment or plutonium production. Only a nuclear weapons program does.

Much more at the link.

In our non-Council category…boy did we have some quality stuff this week for you, handpicked by the Council. There was a lot of good stuff here, but the winner this week was David Horowitz with  The Threat We Face submitted by Nice Deb. For those of you whom don’t know, the renowned author and speaker was raised as a Red Diaper Baby and was a rising star in the Left…until something dramatic happened that forced him to perform that most courageous of acts, a true self-examination. Anyone interested in reading about this story first hand should obtain his book, Radical Son.

This week’s winning entry is a transcript of a recent speech Horowitz gave ..and in it, he  reveals the true nature of the Left and helps us understand it in a way only someone who was once a core part of it could. This is a must-read.

OK, here are this week’s full results:

Council Winners

• *First place with 5 votes! Joshuapundit – The Ayatollahs Laugh – Iran’s Nukes And The New ‘Red Lines’
• Second place with 2  votes – The Noisy Room – Dick Armey and the Progressives on the Right – Conservative Betrayal
• Third place with 1 2/3 votes – Liberty’s Spirit -The Genderfication of Thought
• Fourth place  with 1 1/3 vote – The Right Planet - Mister ‘No Compromise’ and the Default Position
• Fourth place  with 1 vote – VA Right!-A Liberal’s Naive and Unrealistic View of Obamacare Costs and What She Will REALLY Pay
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD - The Real Reason For Columbus Day?
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Bookworm Room – A friend gets a hard lesson about the “liberal” police state
• Fifth  place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey – All of a sudden, “Redskins” is a nasty term
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Simply Jews – Russia’s Sochi Games: if there, you better keep shtum
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Political Commentator – What do Martians think about Barack Obama! (Video)
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Glittering Eye – “Your Winnings, Sir”
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Mellow Jihadi – The Navy, Some Pantyhose, and an Inconvenient Typhoon
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Nice Deb – White House Official: Obama Would Rather Default Than Sit Down And Negotiate With Republicans
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Razor – Sunday Drive-By – Random Shots

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 2/3 votes! – David Horowitz//FrontPageMag - The Threat We Face submitted by Nice Deb
• Second place with 2 1/3 votes – Barry Rubin – How to Turn a Campus into an Indoctrination Center submitted by The Watcher
• Third place  with 2 votes – Mark Steyn – Park Service Paramilitaries submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Fourth place with 1 2/3 votes -Project 2049 - China’s Military Strategy in the Asia-Pacific submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Fourth place with 1 1/3 votes – Serdar Yegulalp/InfoWorld Tech Watch Blog - How federal cronies built — and botched — Healthcare.gov submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Fifth place *t* with 1 vote - The Independent Sentinel – Mr. Obamachev, We Tore Down These Walls submitted by The Watcher
• Fifth place *t* with 1 vote - Andrew McCarthy – Funding Jihadists while Denying Military Benefits submitted by Joshuapundit
• Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Sad Red Earth – Edward Snowden and the Question of Authority (a Surveillance of Terms) submitted by Simply Jews
• Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Truth Before Dishonor – A Troll has demanded an explanation submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote - Michelle Malkin – Occupy America! Citizens storm the Barrycades  submitted by The Noisy Room
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote - The Federalist – Stop lying to us, America submitted by Bookworm Room
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote - City Journal – Slip Slidin’ Away   submitted by The Political Commentator
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote - 1389 Blog – Counterjihad! – Racism Explained to the Liberal World   submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote - Habitable Worlds – Emotive But Meaningless submitted by The Right Planet

This week, Ask Marion earned honorable mention status with a great article, This is the Moment For Action And Choice.

See you next week! Don’t forget to tune in on Monday AM for this week’s Watcher’s Forum, as the Council and their invited special guests take apart one of the provocative issues of the day with short takes and weigh in…don’t you dare miss it. And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter…..’cause we’re cool like that!

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It is a Wrap!! Ask Marion 9.15.13 - 9.22.13 Fall Is Here Edition

Our weekly wrap… Sunday to Sunday… Please share! Ask Marion

• Sen. Mike Lee to David Gregory: ‘We Have Support in Senate’ to Defund ObamaCare – 9/22/13
• Parent Arrested from Common Core Meeting for Speaking Out of Turn
• The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results – 09.20.13
• California College Bans Passing Out Constitution On Constitution Day – Wake The Hell Up America
• House votes 230-189 to Fund Government, Defund ObamaCare
• Democrats Insult Parents of Slain Heroes at Benghazi Hearings
• House Speaker John Boehner has a message for President Barack Obama: You’ll negotiate with Russia and not Republicans? [video] – Updated
• Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Says Country Will Never Develop Nuclear Weapons in NBC INTERVIEW… Is the World Really That Naïve?
• S.C. School District’s Detailed Response to TheBlaze’s Exclusive Report on ‘Widely Adopted’ Textbook With Flawed 2nd Amendment Definition
• Truckers Threatening to ‘Shut Down Washington, D.C.’ for Three Days Straight
• Senator Barbara Boxer Objects to Sen. Ted Cruz’s Resolution to Investigate Benghazi
• Judge Andrew Napolitano: If Officers at the Navy Yard Had Been Armed Casualties Would Be Much Lower
• Glenn Beck: I Personally Am Calling for the Impeachment of the President of the United States [video]
• Watcher’s Council Nominations – Indian Summer Edition
• Lois Lerner + Malik Obama = White House IRS Scandal
• Inside the mind of NSA chief General Keith Alexander
• Obama Supporters Will Go Hysterical Over This Well Sourced List Of 252 Examples Of His Lying, Law-breaking, Corruption, Cronyism, Etc..
• You Be the Judge… LOOK! 3 Articles Posted Day Before D.C. Navy Yard Shooting! – Updated
• Two Black Conservative Women Running For Congress…
• Radio Interview With Trevor Loudon: How the Tea Party Can Save America
• CNN …As 13 Killed in Possible Terror Attack – Reporter Carol Costello… Confused???
• After a Year, Congressional Benghazi Report Finally Points Negatively To Senior State Department Officials
• Judge Andrew Napolitano: Rand Paul Can Lead Us To An Era Of Prosperity, Happiness & Small Government
• Obama’s Middle Eastern Sleight of Hand
• Huma Abedin Weiner Returns To Hillaryville…
• Tyrone Woods’ Father: Body was left on tarmac for 3 hours in Libya – Is that anyway to treat a hero?
• Guns Are a Lot Like Parachutes…
• It’s a Wrap – Ask Marion 9.08.13 – 9.15.13 Edition

Also See:

• Opt Out - The Exam - Creepy Uncle Sam
• Diabetes Drug May Reverse Alzheimer's
• Obamacare: Another union boss speaks out against the healthcare law
• Pet Alzheimer’s Disease – Is Your Dog or Cat Showing Signs?
• Talking Pet Auditions
• Getting To The "Root" of Bad Breath In Dogs And Cats
• Olate Dogs

We are living in amazing times, good and bad, the kind of times that truly try men’s (and women’s) souls and that make or break countries and shape (or reshape) societies. Please get involved, pray for guidance, prepare for the worst (for yourself and to help others), then educate yourself and share what you learn with as many people as you can. All our futures depend on it!!

Be sure to come visit us here at Ask Marion regularly and subscribe to receive the latest posts first… as well as visit: Just One More Pet, True Health Is True Wealth!!, Knowledge Is Power, and the Daily Thought Pad.

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It’s a Wrap – Ask Marion 9.01.13 – 9.08.13 Edition

Our weekly wrap… Sunday to Sunday… Please share! Ask Marion

• Never Let A War Go To Waste…
• John McCain and Lindsey Graham… Apply Their War Paint…
• Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement – Syria… Trust Us From The People That Brought Benghazi Video
• President Obama Sends Support Message To Radical Muslim Brotherhood Front Group
• Watcher’s Council Results – The Council Has Spoken!!
• Aussies Dump the Progressive Socialists – America Waits in the Wings to Boot Them Too – We Certainly Hope!!
• McCain – A Treasonous Enemy Within
• CFP: Silence of the Lambs in America
• Hannity: Syria, Allen West, Media Mash, Brent Bozell [Videos]
• Dr. Robert H. Schuller Has Esophageal Cancer
• Dr. Benjamin Carson – Importance of Education in Shaping Culture
• Remembering September 4, 2008: Governor Sarah Palin’s Historic RNC Vice Presidential Nomination Speech
• Jeff Duncan Unloads on John Kerry About Benghazi At Syria Hearing
• Watcher’s Council Nominations – It All Depends On Whose Pulling The Trigger Edition
• Brzezinski in all of his "peaceful" glory
• Major change coming to Obamacare: Anyone who voted for or supported BO will receive an exemption
• The King James Bible (BBC Documentary)
• Press release: International campaign DOWDIVISOR30
• Rosh Hashana
• Court Ruling: Obama Can Keep Log Of WH Visitors From The Public
• How the Media Spin For Obama…
• Labor Day
• Ostriches or Eagles
• Senator Jim DeMint Heritage Action Keynote Address – Defund ObamaCare Rally
• Alas, Brave New Babylon
• Was This the Week America’s Music Died?
• Unidentified US Navy Officer Sums Up Syria
• It’s a Wrap – Ask Marion 8-25-13 – 9.01.13 Edition

Also See:

• Obamacare's Worst Feature? It's Wedded To 50-Year-Old Assumptions About Health And Insurance
• Dr. Robert H. Schuller Has Esophageal Cancer
• Valerie Harper in Remission… Valerie, Snooki, Leah Remini and 9 more join 'Dancing With the Stars' Cast for Season 17
• Major change coming to Obamacare: Anyone who voted for or supported BO will receive an exemption
• Beware: A Disgusting Scam Women Are Using On Their Boyfriends
• Senator Jim DeMint Heritage Action Keynote Address - Defund ObamaCare Rally
• Exempt America From Obamacare – Capital hill Rally Scheduled For September 10th – Hannity
• Celebrating Animals in the Afterlife
• Thirteen Year Old Invents Solution for Dogs Who Separate From Separation Anxiety
• Baby Orangutan Rickina Will Melt Your Heart…
• A Simple Way to Detect Your Dog’s Emotions
• ‘Zeutering’ offers dog sterilization in a ‘shot’
• Apparently Miley Cyrus has purchased a new dog
• Help Your Dying Pet End Life in a Kind and Gentle Way

We are living in amazing times, good and bad, the kind of times that truly try men’s (and women’s) souls and that make or break countries and shape (or reshape) societies. Please get involved, pray for guidance, prepare for the worst (for yourself and to help others), then educate yourself and share what you learn with as many people as you can. All our futures depend on it!!

Be sure to come visit us here at Ask Marion regularly and subscribe to receive the latest posts first… as well as visit: Just One More Pet, True Health Is True Wealth!!, Knowledge Is Power, and the Daily Thought Pad.

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