With that many czars running around czaring, I think it's high time we had a czar czar. Or czomezing.

I never did like the term "Czar" for stuff like this.

He's not fooling anyone, you know. He should just use "Caliph" or "Sultan."

dillenger69: I never did like the term "Czar" for stuff like this.

No, it's perfect. Some political know-it-all, who has never held an honest job in their life, with utopian ideas and political bullshiat who falls flat on their face when those ideas meet reality.

Crosshair: No, it's perfect. Some political know-it-all, who has never held an honest job in their life, with utopian ideas and political bullshiat who falls flat on their face when those ideas meet reality.

I picked one of the "czars" at random from the link, the health one. Pretty sure she's got an idea what's she's doing.

Crosshair: dillenger69: I never did like the term "Czar" for stuff like this.

No, it's perfect. Some political know-it-all, who has never held an honest job in their life, with utopian ideas and political bullshiat who falls flat on their face when those ideas meet reality.


Yeah - just another horrible idea handed down from Reagan.

dillenger69: I never did like the term "Czar" for stuff like this.

Come on, at least it's living proof that another culture has butchered the pronunciation of "Caesar" worse than we do.

/In Latin, C makes a K sound.

Vivek Kundra, "Tech Czar":

I don't want to buy technology the old way," he said. "Three years ago, D.C. schools spent $25 million to deploy a human resources software program. It failed, and not a single person was fired," Kundra said as he rushed between meetings. "And they had the audacity to ask for more money. How is that an intelligent use of taxpayer money?"

I like this guy already.

Sum Dum Gai: dillenger69: I never did like the term "Czar" for stuff like this.

Come on, at least it's living proof that another culture has butchered the pronunciation of "Caesar" worse than we do.

/In Latin, C makes a K sound.

If I were speaking to a person in Latin, that would be good to know. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of ANY culture that pronounces Ceasar with a "K" sound, with the exception of the Germans. But they've always been culturally sensitive.

For some reason, the country that bills itself as the greatest super democracy/republic of all time wants to give out a lot of titles derived from the name of a despot famous for killing the last super greatest republic of all time.

Weird country we have here.

GAT_00: I picked one of the "czars" at random from the link, the health one. Pretty sure she's got an idea what's she's doing.

Of course they all have an idea of what they are doing. The problem is how that idea turns out in the real world. Right now DeParle hasn't had much of a chance to do anything except talk and draw up plants that may or may not be implemented. Complaining about her is like complaining about the poor wheat harvest after you just planted the seeds.

She still quotes the bullshiat "47 million uninsured" statistic so I question how much of a clue/honesty she has. Time will answer that question.

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Crosshair: GAT_00: I picked one of the "czars" at random from the link, the health one. Pretty sure she's got an idea what's she's doing.

Of course they all have an idea of what they are doing.

So you were full of shiat?


The problem is how that idea turns out in the real world. Right now DeParle hasn't had much of a chance to do anything except talk and draw up plants that may or may not be implemented. Complaining about her is like complaining about the poor wheat harvest after you just planted the seeds.

She still quotes the bullshiat "47 million uninsured" statistic so I question how much of a clue/honesty she has. Time will answer that question.

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That is the number. There are 50 million without insurance. You can argue semantics, but the number is real. I don't even see where that article denies it.

Is czar an official title? I can't find anywhere that the term czar is used other than with the Drug czar. Is this just a media thing?

Why don't we appoint Kaisers? Too soon?

Unavailable for comment and highly confused.

wow, we have unique challenges which require people of specialized knowledge and talents to deal with!

Argh2: If I were speaking to a person in Latin, that would be good to know. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of ANY culture that pronounces Ceasar with a "K" sound, with the exception of the Germans.

English used to. Pretty sure the Greeks still pronounce it correctly as well.

Imperator Caesar Flavius Theodosius Pius Felix Augustus feels neglected.

Crosshair: dillenger69: I never did like the term "Czar" for stuff like this.

No, it's perfect. Some political know-it-all, who has never held an honest job in their life, with utopian ideas and political bullshiat who falls flat on their face when those ideas meet reality.

The article says the Czar is a technocratic who uses technocratic solutions for questions that have no technocratic answers. You know, like a TotalFarker. it's just someone who uses industrial catchphrases to bumblefark around the media and restructure a few office building layouts. Some dumbshiat who has an MBA and reads Wired and thinks that IT is capable of lowering the tax money spent on their department.

Your definition is nowhere in the article.

I prefer Grand Pooh-bah myself. Lord Chief Justice, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Master of the Buckhounds, Lord High Auditor, Groom of the Back Stairs, and Lord High Everything Else are also acceptable.

Klingon Penis: Somalia: Libertarian Paradise!

yeah, roaming bands of people fighting for government power = libertarian paradise.

Give us a few more good ones while you're at it

Say that's a pretty good number. nice to know someone is on the job. getting things done. taking care of biz-ness. walking the walk.
gittin er done.

Klingon Penis: Somalia: Libertarian Paradise!

And regardless, Somalia is better off than with its old government. What a surprise.

Listerine: Klingon Penis: Somalia: Libertarian Paradise!

yeah, roaming bands of people fighting for government power = libertarian paradise.

Give us a few more good ones while you're at it

OK: Ron Paul, Drew Carey, and Ayn Rand walk into a bar...

There's nothing quite like a publication called Reason using the fallacy of equivocation to prove some point.

Klingon Penis: Listerine: Klingon Penis: Somalia: Libertarian Paradise!

yeah, roaming bands of people fighting for government power = libertarian paradise.

Give us a few more good ones while you're at it

OK: Ron Paul, Drew Carey, and Ayn Rand walk into a bar...

did they get hurt? :)

Dr. Mojo PhD: There's nothing quite like a publication called Reason using the fallacy of equivocation to prove some point.

I know we're not on H&R right now, but DRINK!

YixilTesiphon: Dr. Mojo PhD: There's nothing quite like a publication called Reason using the fallacy of equivocation to prove some point.

I know we're not on H&R right now, but DRINK!

Forgive my ignorant northern ways, but wut?

Very nice, subby.

BTW: is it 'Czar' or 'Tsar'?

I can't help but 'the Terrible' after our new czar's name.

I guess if you're a moron who equivocates every important position with a fictional '*** czar' title you could see it that way.

Just more crap flinging with no alternatives proposed. I suppose instead of finding qualified people and placing them in important positions (to be subsequently called czars by morons) we should ??? Do nothing but put unqualified people in unimportant positions? Yeah, that'll get stuff done.

To be fair, the Russians were serial. These are parallel. Much more efficient.

After getting to the end of the article, at least she's honest that it's the press that comes up with these silly titles (and then writes stories about them apparently).

Snarfangel: He's not fooling anyone, you know. He should just use "Caliph" or "Sultan."



//others may not appreciate your efforts
//but it made me laugh .

Crosshair: GAT_00: I picked one of the "czars" at random from the link, the health one. Pretty sure she's got an idea what's she's doing.

Of course they all have an idea of what they are doing. The problem is how that idea turns out in the real world. Right now DeParle hasn't had much of a chance to do anything except talk and draw up plants that may or may not be implemented. Complaining about her is like complaining about the poor wheat harvest after you just planted the seeds.

She still quotes the bullshiat "47 million uninsured" statistic so I question how much of a clue/honesty she has. Time will answer that question.

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So... would Michael Brown have been the Emergency Response Czar?

Argh2: I'm not aware of ANY culture that pronounces Ceasar with a "K" sound, with the exception of the Germans.

Uh...no.

Idiot.

Klingon Penis: Somalia: Libertarian Paradise!

2/10

But if you want an actual one, or close as you're going to find:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia

Did you find that video on DailyKos?

Hank Rearden: Klingon Penis: Somalia: Libertarian Paradise!

2/10

But if you want an actual one, or close as you're going to find:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia

Did you find that video on DailyKos?

He found that video on Fark, from a while back, and we all had a good laugh at it except for people with sand in their vagina.

Must be a KOS KONSPIRACY!

Cue the libs libs libs pic.

Dr. Mojo PhD: YixilTesiphon: Dr. Mojo PhD: There's nothing quite like a publication called Reason using the fallacy of equivocation to prove some point.

I know we're not on H&R right now, but DRINK!

Forgive my ignorant northern ways, but wut?

Reason's blog, Hit & Run, has some...customs. Among these is that when somebody says "for a magazine called Reason..." or something similar, DRINK!

PascalsGhost: Crosshair: GAT_00: I picked one of the "czars" at random from the link, the health one. Pretty sure she's got an idea what's she's doing.

Of course they all have an idea of what they are doing.

So you were full of shiat?


The problem is how that idea turns out in the real world. Right now DeParle hasn't had much of a chance to do anything except talk and draw up plants that may or may not be implemented. Complaining about her is like complaining about the poor wheat harvest after you just planted the seeds.

She still quotes the bullshiat "47 million uninsured" statistic so I question how much of a clue/honesty she has. Time will answer that question.

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That is the number. There are 50 million without insurance. You can argue semantics, but the number is real. I don't even see where that article denies it.

Yep, while you could possibly argue for throwing out 10 million illegals their non insurance does negatively effect our hospitals because they clog the emergency rooms, etc. The other large group they want to throw approx 20 million out is people who are temporarily uninsured. You know what, its a rotating list for sure but its still 20 million people that if they had an illness right now (statistically many of them will get sick during their transition) would be bankrupt.

furiousxgeorge: For some reason, the country that bills itself as the greatest super democracy/republic of all time wants to give out a lot of titles derived from the name of a despot famous for killing the last super greatest republic of all time.

Weird country we have here.



The Czar of the Telestrator is amused by your analysis.

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Argh2: I'm not aware of ANY culture that pronounces Ceasar with a "K" sound, with the exception of the Germans.

Uh...no.

Idiot.

Sorry, Kaiser doesn't count?

Sum Dum Gai, sorry, you struck a pet peeve. I hate it when people say "this culture" as though THIS culture is somehow so much more ignorant and depraved than all others. The fact seems to be that the pronunciation of the word changed, in English and most other languages as well. We're not butchering the pronunciation, that's just how things go.

dillenger69: I never did like the term "Czar" for stuff like this.

Me either

Argh2: I'm not aware of ANY culture that pronounces Ceasar with a "K" sound

Finnish comes to mind.

Whining about pronunciation doesn't make much sense.

kmmontandon: Crosshair: dillenger69: I never did like the term "Czar" for stuff like this.

No, it's perfect. Some political know-it-all, who has never held an honest job in their life, with utopian ideas and political bullshiat who falls flat on their face when those ideas meet reality.


Yeah - just another horrible idea handed down from Reagan.

No - one of the *few* horrible ideas from Reagan. It wasn't necessarily a horrible idea at the time. It was just twisted into one by a wannabe authoritarian.

Argh2: The fact seems to be that the pronunciation of the word changed, in English and most other languages as well. We're not butchering the pronunciation, that's just how things go.

Just because some other cultures also butcher the pronunciation doesn't mean we're not.

A name isn't just another word, it's a person's name. It's not just an ambiguity in pronunciation like po-tay-to versus po-tah-to, there's an authoritative source for how the name should be pronounced, and that's how the person themselves would pronounce it. A normal word can change pronunciation, because there's no unambiguous "right answer", but in the case of a person's name, there is.

The Sofa King: kmmontandon: Crosshair: dillenger69: I never did like the term "Czar" for stuff like this.

No, it's perfect. Some political know-it-all, who has never held an honest job in their life, with utopian ideas and political bullshiat who falls flat on their face when those ideas meet reality.


Yeah - just another horrible idea handed down from Reagan.

No - one of the *few* horrible ideas from Reagan. It wasn't necessarily a horrible idea at the time. It was just twisted into one by a wannabe authoritarian.

There were good ideas that came from Reagan? For the country I mean, I know the Republican party has done well with some of his stuff. The Republicans got a decent idea, that if you put a folksy guy up and commit most of your crimes outside of Washington and act like you're a goddamn hero for committing them, you don't get Nixon'd.

RemyDuron: The Sofa King: kmmontandon: Crosshair: dillenger69: I never did like the term "Czar" for stuff like this.

No, it's perfect. Some political know-it-all, who has never held an honest job in their life, with utopian ideas and political bullshiat who falls flat on their face when those ideas meet reality.


Yeah - just another horrible idea handed down from Reagan.

No - one of the *few* horrible ideas from Reagan. It wasn't necessarily a horrible idea at the time. It was just twisted into one by a wannabe authoritarian.

There were good ideas that came from Reagan? For the country I mean, I know the Republican party has done well with some of his stuff. The Republicans got a decent idea, that if you put a folksy guy up and commit most of your crimes outside of Washington and act like you're a goddamn hero for committing them, you don't get Nixon'd.

Bless you, sir. Bless you for completely ignoring how Reagan turned this country around. He was instrumental in reinvigorating this country, economically, socially, and militarily. Don't forget, it was at the end of Carter's term that an article in Time Magazine suggested that the presidency had become too big for one person.

Never mind all that. Just keep thinking what you are told, and never ask why.