So clearly we’re eight days in and to be insisting on data being produced day by day for a six-month enrollment program is a little bit unfair. And, you know, the good news that came out of this problem and HHS has acknowledged that there’s obviously been some technological problems with the server, but the good news out of that is that the servers were apparently designed to anticipate about 50,000 people a day going on the website and moving around and they — it turns out it’s been 250,000 a day. So it’s very clear that there is demand. It’s also clear that they need to fix those technological bugs. I don’t know any software program or app, for that matter, by any high-tech company that doesn’t have bugs and fixes that need to be made in the first few days of the rollout. And so that’s why, in part, there’s a six-month enrollment plan. So what the analogy that I’ve used repeatedly is that the Republicans, because they don’t like their kitchen redesign, are trying to burn their house down. And that’s what they’re doing by trying to take the government down with them and our economy.
And there you have it!
I realize I didn’t write a proper post today but I sunk all my energy into my mom’s sink. Not only that, but it rained today.
BTW – never try to scrub spots out of an old sink unless you want to scrub the whole damn thing white again.
My hands are raw.
vaseline or some other cream type thing (not liquidy lotion)
You’re a good son 🙂 How are you feeling?
So DWS is not only intellectually challenged, but has no shame? Apparently she’s also exceeded her “best by” date without noticing.
Ouch. 😦
Wasn’t DWS smacking the GOP with a rather large, smelly fish earlier for taking away the death benefits from the families of the fallen troops?
Oops, Trump said he’d pay for them. Oopsie-do, Harry said they’d pay for them.
Are we having fun yet ?
http://www.caintv.com/awesome-video-gop-freshman-sch
The video on this page is the most fun I have had since the shutdown started , but then I can’t stand Andrea Mitchell , so it was pure pleasure to watch someone take her apart and make her lose her supercilious smirk .
I saw the part where Michell said an Obamacare delay is “non-negotiable.” That’s a BS talking point from the Dems. If she said “the president says that’s non-negotiable,” that’s one thing, but stating it like a fact is just pulling a Candy Crowley.
Once again: broken interface & blank drop-down menus are *not* caused by too many users trying to access the server: those are from flaws in the coding & design of the system.
Second: how in the fuck can the progs say with a straight face the site — which is suppossed to service millions of people — was designed to have 50,000 users a day? Incompetence is a virtue in Progville.
Finally, Apple, etc are NOT the federal government & there products are not required to be purchased under penalty of law (yet). Furthermore, if Apple, etc had a rollout of product with half the flaws of this bullshit, people would actually get fired. As Lois Lerner et al prove: those rules don’t apply for government workers. The guys who designed this crap not only got BILLIONS in taxpayer money, they’ll probably get promoted.
When Apple introduced their maps system, it was deeply flawed. Many people involved, all the way up to the executive VP in charge of the entire software division had their asses handed to them and were shown the door. That’s what happens when money is on the line. So what should happen when actual lives are on the line?
Answer: Death panels ;-).
Or else suspended with full pay and benefits until retirement.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/09/cnn-white-house-knew-about-obamacare-website-glitches-ignored-warnings/
does anyone want to tell dippy debbie??
I think about 40% looking at the website are journalists who intended to write “Holy moley this is stupendously marvelous” but couldn’t get past the first screen. The next 40% are techies gawping at the mess and laughing. Another 10% are the idiots who made the mess and are trying to fix it, and the final 10% are the poor unfortunates who have to use it to try to access insurance. Everyone else is saying “I am not touching that.”
Debbie is dumb. That’s 50,000 simultanous users at any point in time, not users per day.
From USA Today:
President Obama’s chief technology adviser, Todd Park, blames the unexpectedly large numbers of people who flocked to Healthcare.gov and state websites. “Take away the volume and it works,” he told USA TODAY’s Tim Mullaney.
That’s like saying that except for the torrential rain, it’s a really nice day. Was Park not listening to the administration’s daily weather report predicting Obamacare’s popularity?
Park said the administration expected 50,000 to 60,000 simultaneous users. It got 250,000. Compare that with the similarly rocky debut seven years ago of exchanges to obtain Medicare drug coverage. The Bush administration projected 20,000 simultaneous users and built capacity for 150,000.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/10/07/health-care-insurance-exchanges-obamacare-editorials-debates/2940207/
*yawn* Thats the same line of shit she spouted on Crossfire last night. Jesus, you think she’d change it up a little.
Still, I’m always shocked by her lack of self-respect and shame at spewing lies. She’ll be an appropriate replacement for Pelosi some day.
Coulter breaks it down.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2013-10-09.html
The bison don’t think much of the barricades either- as scratching posts they’re pretty wimpy.
Honey Bison don’t care. Honey Bison don’t give a shit.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/09/california-dem-gov-signs-law-allowing-nurses-and-midwives-to-perform-abortions/
I think the coat hangers have to be sterilized
There are 114,800,000 households in the United States. If 15% of them are uninsured or on the individual insurance market, that’s 17,220,000 households. If only 50,000 of them could access the web site per day, it would take 344 days to register them all….and she thinks that is a good explanation for why the registrations couldn’t take place? She feels that was an adequate capacity design and they shouldn’t have any idea that it would be over capacity all the time? Even the REAL number which is probably more like 50,000*10 hours a day is low when you consider how many people need to look, shop, shop again, shop again, ask questions, shop again. It’s not like just filing your taxes once. Whoever designed this system is a goon.
And Debbie is stupid.
Also, it’s not a six month enrollment period. If people want to be insured and not pay a penalty, it’s a 2.5 month enrollment period.
Doubly stupid.
Makes me sick.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/09/shutdown-showdown-sfs-cliff-house-defies-obama-admin-reopens-and-is-forced-to-close-again/
part of our plans when my daughter, her SIL and I went to San Francisco was to celebrate her 50th birthday and my 75th birthday this year at the Cliff House. the backtrack bunch screwed that up. We will probably never get to the Cliff House as my daughter lives in NJ and I live in southern California
Oh, Helen! I am so sorry that happened to you! I hope you were able to find a great way to celebrate despite president petulant. Happy birthday to you and yours!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/10/09/eleanor-holmes-norton-confronts-obama-on-d-c-budget-bill/?print=1
Dems from DC not too happy with backtrack
The problem with the exchanges is not just the loading issue. Working through all those interfces with other federal and state systems
for all kinds of validations is the main problem. All those interfaces are new. Here are the problems as I see them.
1. A user creates user id and gets into the system to fill out an application. (This has been the problem for lthe lat few days. This is a loading problem.)
2. The application needs to be validated (check SSN, income info from IRS, etc.)
3. What other benefits does the applicant get? food stamps, WIC, Obama phone, etc?
4. Then the applicant’s subsidy is calculated. All those business rules combination logic must be horrendous. They probably did not
test all the possible scenarios. (Next month we will be reading about some funny results.)
5. Then the applicant info is sent to the insurers. Insurers do their computations using applicant’s health profile, credit records, etc., and
give a quote. (Again the interfaces are all new and untested.)
6. Applicant gets a shock. If the applicant doesn’t want to sign up for a plan, well, they already have his/her personal info. They will
levy the fine and hound them.
7. When the word spreads, new applicants may not want to go near that website.
We are at step 1 only this week.
Here is a link that shows some of those interfaces to other systems.
Here’s everything you need to know about Obamacare’s error-plagued websites
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/09/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-obamacares-error-plagued-web-sites/
I tried to ask my exchange on Twitter why I can’t get up-front pricing like I could when they used to offer a paid health care option for working people without insurance at their job?
No answer so far.
Probably the price depends on who you are (credit score, health score, race, political party)
What a scam.
http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/10/09/ed-henry-sources-say-obama-admin-aides-knew-about-denial-death-benefits-few-days
these scuzzbuckets knew for several days about the denial of death benefits and did nothing about it.
notice when hagel had his photo op with the returning heros at Dover AFB, their families were not there. that is unforgivable
http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/10/09/ed-henry-sources-say-obama-admin-aides-knew-about-denial-death-benefits-few-days
On ‘The Kelly File’, Ed Henry reported late Wednesday evening that sources say aides in the Obama administration have been aware, for a few days , that the government would not be able to pay death benefits to fallen troops’ families.
This report came after White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that he was unsure when President Obama learned that fallen troops would be denied death benefits during the government shutdown.
Video and text at link
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/09/george-will-obama-cut-classes-the-day-they-taught-separation-of-powers-at-harvard-law/
Anyone who saw the clip quoted below during the campaign had to know in their bones that Romney was right. While Obama ridiculously claimed that the Republicans would start working with him/Pres Petulant after the election.
Video at the link of the quote and an interview with Hannity.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/passantino/mitt-romney-predicted-debt-ceiling-fight-government-shutdown
stolen from a commenter at No Quarter
letter to gov employees dated Oct 1 2013
look at the address bar it was downloaded Sept 13 2013
little odd isn’t it
The shutdown has been in the works for a while. The bureaucracy leviathan can’t think up painful stunts on the fly. In a come from nowhere shutdown everything would have just stopped. But Barrycades built or leased in advance, a hit list of private businesses with leases from the feds, sending exempted “essential employees” home only to be recalled, a planned out PR campaign by campaign professionals in the WH unleashed at Repubs all show it is a malicious premeditated stunt. I suspect it is being done to direct attention away from the Zerocare nightmare which they knew was going to implode. Creating a catastrophe to misdirect from a bigger one (both Barry-made) is a hallmark of this administration. I don’t think asshole park rangers can divert attention away from ruinous insurance rates and mega website failure.
cartoon- someone’s getting a spanking…
http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2013/10/10/112756
Like Sowell’s take on “languiging”…
http://www.creators.com/conservative/thomas-sowell/inarticulate-republicans.html
If you think Obamacare glitches are bad, check this out: technical gltches making new NSA center literally go up in flames
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/10/08/2-Billion-NSA-Spy-Center-Going-Flames
So everything Obama touches catches on fire? Figuratively and literally. The NSA has built HELL. Wonder if the staffers have forked tails?
😆
To go with their forked tongues. 😆
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