I’m sure you meant to say data mining.

UltimateBob on December 28, 2012 at 1:25 PM

Maybe not. BO has been described as the “Spock” of our times. Spock was all about logic and data. “Ming the Merciless” in “Flash Gordon” was all about oppression and having total control of his subjects.

So, I’m totally okay with labeling BO as “Data-Ming the Merciless” and it being one of his “ops”

Dr. Frank Enstine on December 28, 2012 at 2:27 PM

I did mean “data-mining“. Sometimes my mighty brain gets ahead of my fumbling fingers. But I like the Ming the Merciless angle.

If I had photo-shop skills, I would paste Zero’s head on Ming’s body just for fun.

I’m sure you meant to say data mining.

UltimateBob on December 28, 2012 at 1:25 PM

Maybe not. BO has been described as the “Spock” of our times. Spock was all about logic and data. “Ming the Merciless” in “Flash Gordon” was all about oppression and having total control of his subjects.

So, I’m totally okay with labeling BO as “Data-Ming the Merciless” and it being one of his “ops”

The petition site was never meant to aid the Administration / Government in policy-making. It is there as a “feel good” measure for those who believe anything the Government tells them. They think, “Hey! Somebody in the Government cares and is listening to me!”

Mitoch55 on December 28, 2012 at 1:11 PM

Yup. I still say it was a smart idea to quell the useless idiots. I’d bet the WH staffers get a good laugh at a lot of them and none are ever seen by BO.

I hadn’t thought of the data mining angle and I have my doubts it is of much use. Who is stupid enough to put their real data on it. Other than liberals who it was made for anyway.

Somebody, somewhere, is mining that data, for certain.

Its a data-ming op.

novaculus on December 28, 2012 at 1:12 PM

I’m sure you meant to say data mining.

The petition site was never meant to aid the Administration / Government in policy-making. It is there as a “feel good” measure for those who believe anything the Government tells them. They think, “Hey! Somebody in the Government cares and is listening to me!”

Mitoch55 on December 28, 2012 at 1:11 PM

It’s more than that……

Its a data-ming op.

novaculus on December 28, 2012 at 1:12 PM

Exactly. You beat me to it with the exact same comment.

Out of curiosity, I visited the site, and found that you have to register before you can even sign a petition. There is no way in he11 that I would willingly give any of my personal info to this corrupt regime.

Sure, they have ways to find out anything about me that they want, but I’m not going to make it easy for them.

The only thing that bho/mo is interested in at the wh petition site, ‘how much money are you going to donate to us’?
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The White House is not supposed to even be dealing with individuals domestically. That is not the job of the federal Executive branch. When Americans want to petition their government they do it through their representatives and the federalist chain. Not everything goes right to the Executive branch. That’s how thinking goes in a non-American government. We don’t have a King in the White House who is there to handle every problem. He has a specific and limited set of responsibilities, and responding to popular referenda is certainly not one of them. America doesn’t do national referenda and certainly doesn’t do them addressed all to the Executive branch.

Sure, this petition stuff is funny at times, but it’s entirely unserious and seriously un-American.