Questionably Bad Things

I still remember this pretty vividly.  The man never got what he actually deserved (i.e. recognition as a hero and restoration of his good name) and probably never will.

This seems like a good news/bad news/bad news proposition.

I plan on laughing heartily at my hometown's inability to handle 2 inches of snow whenever everyone actually manages to make it back home (so in another 3 days or so).  Until then, here's one writer's take on the reasons behind the gridlock.  I don't necessarily agree with all of her solutions, but her diagnosis of the problem in my view is fairly accurate.

This is a PSA for staying in school somehow.

Responses:

2.  Unrelated to the (hilarious) video, but related to the weather in the South: a lot of people are saying that there was plenty of warning that there would be a snowstorm in Atlanta and that makes the response embarrassing, but I definitely recall a fair amount of doom and gloom from weathermen at least three times a winter about the worst snowstorm in history hitting the city and the result being light drizzle and 40 degrees maybe 95% of the time.  At a certain point, weathermen just sound like the boy who cried wolf.  Maybe if they spent less time at self-defense class and more studying the weather...

4a.  I agreed with this line: "Most often, Obama has generally talked and acted like a man held prisoner by the systems he inherited, rather than the guy in charge of them."  I think one reason ENTJ personality types do well as administrators or CEOs is because they can work through or past pretty heavy criticism and still make systems work.  Obama seems to dwell on GOP criticism more so than past presidents, and he seems to complain a lot more about what he can't do.  The executive order thing sounds a lot like taking his ball and going home.

4b.  I do think the comparison to Clinton is apt.  Clinton started his presidency in a fairly liberal way, pushing a tax increase and championing universal healthcare.  But after the 1994 elections, where the Democrats in Congress got steamrolled, he changed course and governed more like a moderate.  To his credit, he and Congress got a lot of good stuff done after that happened, and much of it was in the spirit of compromise.  In football, there are often coaches who come up with successful schemes that result in wins in one situation, but when they change teams or get a promotion (e.g. from college to the NFL), they find that their once-successful schemes no longer work.  The coaches with enduring success know that they have to adapt their scheme to the players they have and the situations they see.  Obama strikes me as unable to do that.  And it's odd because so much of his campaign rhetoric indicated that this might be a strength.

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3.  I'm wearing you down over time.

7.  Someone posted it on Facebook.  I was not in the market for sugar-free gummy bears.

8.  See #3 above.  Also, I think the bus was blocking traffic on the other side.

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