Astute readers of this blog have surely noticed the rate of
postings here has dramatically declined during this month of June 2012. There are several factors at play.
First, there is the professional dimension. I have been nominated by my boss for two
project rescues in a row. I’ve been
doing some big cat herding lately for pay, which means the pro bono blogging
needed to take a back seat.
The first rescue is a classic case of a junior Project Manager
(the one I replaced) following the form of the administrative process and
exercising zero leadership. Throw in a
notoriously difficult executive stakeholder he lacked the chops to go
toe-to-toe with, and overworked developers hiding under their desks as a
survival response … and people were beginning to notice he couldn’t even
baseline a schedule anybody could trust.
The schedule is now base-lined and under my change management
control. The executive stakeholder is
sure to continue to be a pain in the a$$ - it’s who she is - but we understand
each other now. I have the attention of
the developers, and visible work product is now being created.
The most interesting relationship on this one looks like it
will be with the customer relationship manager.
She’s one of those high-strung obsessive compulsives who likes to tell
people what to do in minute detail. For
example, on Friday I had no choice but to put an end to an extended email
thread with this: “How many ways are there to say something was written, will
be reviewed, and then approved? Point of
diminishing returns reached. J.” We’re working together as a team just fine so
far.
The root cause for the second rescue is the complete
opposite. It was driven into the ground
by a know-it-all senior engineer that communicated nothing to no one before
unveiling what she assumed was a production ready system to the entire
enterprise. Needless to say … a highly
visible crash and burn was the result. I
had the kickoff meeting for the restart this past Friday, to assert my
dominance over a managed iterative delivery process. The key stakeholders are meeting with me on Monday
to elaborate the scope for delivery iteration 1.
The interesting twist on this one is my boss is a key
stakeholder, another is his political rival, who oversaw the disaster, and the
executive stakeholder is boss to both of them.
Should be loads of fun.
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My personal life has also required a good deal of attention
to detail lately. This is not the space
to go into further detail.
So, that’s it … the report from the brick and mortar world;
the oxygen, carbon dioxide, and H2O world; explaining the blog’s diminished
pace for delivering the conservative rants my loyal readership has enjoyed
since December 2009.
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But, even with these real world considerations, the plain fact is the need for this blog’s mission – “Because the only good Progressive is a
failed Progressive” – is disappearing before our very eyes. By this standard, the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama is on a rocket slide
toward becoming the best Progressive ever.
The economy still sucks and even gives signs of turning
downward again. This condition is due to
the Progressive and Keynesian policy program inflicted upon the republic by the
Alinskyite Socialist in the White House:
tax, spend, borrow, and zealously regulate. When these policies are reversed, by his
removal from office, an economic boom will be touched off as trillions of
spooked investment dollars currently on the sidelines come roaring back into
the economy at large.
Iran’s nuclear weapons program continues apace, due to Barry’s
typically defeatist and inert Progressive approach to foreign affairs. Lucky for western civilization Israel is
under management that has no delusions about the need to defend itself. If and when Israel does what it needs to do,
this will not be good political news for the Empty Suit that Began His Worldwide Apology Tour with His Islamic
Appeasement Speech in Cairo.
Speaking of Cairo, and naïve Progressive notions about the
world at large, the so-called Egyptian ‘Arab Spring’ has resulted in the
election of a President beholden to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). That’s not the Islamic Shriners, by the way …
more like the Islamic MS13. IMHO, it is
fortunate for western civilization that the professional Egyptian Army, very
Americanized due to close military-to-military relations for decades, has
assumed the powers of the dissolved parliament that was also MB dominated after
popular elections. If the MB wins this
power struggle with the Army brass, Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel will be worthless,
and there will likely be war in the Sinai desert. We need new management in DC willing to back
the Egyptian Army for the cause of peace.
Returning back to the domestic scene, the #OccupyWhatever
mob, behind whom Barry foolishly threw his prestige and sympathy, has reached
the stage of terminal irrelevance.
Despite the corrupt and biased liberal media’s best efforts, the
#OccupyWhatever mob shall be accurately recorded by history as not much more
than a garden variety youth gang crime wave.
Unofficially funded by the Democrat party, that is.
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Well, you get the picture … Jimmy Carter writ large, for
those of you old enough to remember that national disaster - with a side of
Saul Alinksy for an extra kick. Botton
line: there is not a snowball’s chance in hell Barry gets re-elected. Part 26 of the “Newton’s Three Law’s” series
will explain further. LAS has been collecting
links to collate into Part 26. It’s not
hard. All I have to do is browse my way
down my blog roll and the myriad of epic failures attributable to the
Progressive in the White House jump out at me, as does the growing awareness of
the American public, despite the mass hoodwinking being attempted by the corrupt and
biased liberal media.
I twice abandoned this month a Jack Wiley Dithers piece,
lacking the capacity to fully draft and edit it. Earlier in the month, when the Campaigner-In-Chief was jetting off on
Air Force One to west coast fundraisers while ignoring the D-Day anniversary, I
had an idea for a desperate private campaign meeting on the airplane captured
by a JWD operative … a flight attendant plant brought on to the JWD payroll for
her … ahem .. unique assets. Later in
the month the idea morphed into a long string of desperate campaign
conservations captured by a recording device injected into Barry’s favorite
basketball … delayed by tedious editing required to remove all the background
noise … you know, with all the dribbling.
Try to hang on a little while longer patriots, adult supervision
will be coming back to DC soon.
Update 6/27/2012
The old conservative standby, American Spectator, has an excellent blog posting today fleshing out the adult view of conditions in Egypt.
