(Via Glenn Reynolds) I’m going to sum up The Enlightened Redneck’s post here about what happened to the White House Easter Egg Roll ticketing system this year (not because there’s anything wrong with his post: read it!): The new administration, having decided that the old system of having people engage in the time-honored tradition of physically camping out in line for tickets was somehow “unfair,” instead decided to make the registration process online. The process didn’t work properly – Shock! Surprise! – so people got tickets essentially via being lucky enough to be able to register before their session timed out.
Wait, it gets better. They did this distribution way earlier than they did the previous, physical ticket distributions – so, quick? What happens when you’ve got a scenario where you have:
- A resource for which there’s a higher demand than supply;
- Sufficient time to make people without that resource aware that you have it;
- And a national communications channel that anybody can access?
Well, if you’re NBC News, or anybody else with a triple-digit IQ, you immediately reply “You have a scenario where people start scalping the tickets.” Which is happening even as we speak; a block of six went for a thousand bucks on E-Bay. That number’s just going to go up, by the way. But don’t worry: the Washington Post assures us that a “spokeswoman for the White House said it was working with Internet sites to prevent ticket sales.” Which means that the White House hadn’t actually thought about the possibility beforehand. So… a local tradition of using a first-come, first-served distribution system that actually worked got thrown overboard in favor of an untested, fatally flawed, unfair system that is now encouraging people across the country to engage in ticket scalping – which is, by the way, illegal. And now there are a bunch of little kids who are going to be sad because their parents didn’t have the money to make sure that they got to go to the White House Easter Egg roll.
And this is why we do not meddle with processes that we do not understand. Because it makes children cry when things go wrong.
Moe Lane
PS: Normally I don’t care all that much if anybody in the Executive Branch reads this site, but since it’s still sort of my birthday: if God is kind, Monday morning will find a copy of this post taped to the monitor of the administration staffer that decided to change this policy for no particular reason.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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But, but, it's for the children...
Freedomlover (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 12:49AM EST (link)My God, can’t they do anything right.
I guess, Obama’s idea of change includes controlling all the traditions, even the ones that were fun for kids. Or, maybe, he just wanted only his supporters to get the tickets, that’s why the online registration.
Pretty funny that the ones who did get them are now selling them. Sounds like Obama supporters to me… no scruples and illegal behavior.
Happy Birthday, again. And, I hope you get your wish!
Do you really think they CARE enough
Adjoran (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 2:30AM EST (link)to be concerned about this fiasco?
I don’t. I think they were afraid the traditional line would result in more “traditional” families on the Lawn, but that their supporters were more likely to be online and take advantage of online registration. It’s a way to cut out a few Republican families. That’s ALL these worthless jerks care about.
The spoiled brats have taken charge of the country. By the time they are finished with us (and we can muster the outrage to evict them), things like this will seem to be “the lighter moments.”
This just takes the cake...
lonebeagle Sunday, March 29th at 3:07AM EST (link)This Obama guy is ruining everything he touches–by the time he’s done there won’t be anything left standing.
This is just pathetic.
a sad metaphor of the current economic crisis
panchita Sunday, March 29th at 4:22AM EST (link)change for changes sake.
Why have an Easter Egg Roll at all?
bk (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 5:59AM EST (link)Easter is a Christian celebration. Shouldn’t Barry Lynn and company be on TV griping that hosting it is a violation of THE WALL? Shouldn’t Obama say it’s being cancelled since some people could find it offensive?
Eggs and bunnies as fertility symbols are OK.
Steve Maley (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 3:31PM EST (link)It’s the cross, the crown of thorns and the Risen God that are problematic.
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besides... the little kiddy-critters might trample Michelles Surrender-First-Garden ;-)
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 9:22PM EST (link)Mind you… it is nice she is doing a Garden…. Many urban centers have “co-citizen” Gardens (often on land that isn’t theirs) growing…
They gotta have yet one more distraction from what is really going on in the world.
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Warner Todd Huston (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 6:28AM EST (link)Hilarious… in a Keystone Kops sort of way, anyway.
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Matthew (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 9:05AM EST (link)… this is egg on the administration’s face?
Ban Easter Eggs Now; Children Later
cube Sunday, March 29th at 10:30AM EST (link)I’ve managed to corner the White House Easter Egg Market. Buy low, sell high. If rich parents can afford my Messianic Egg prices, so be it. Otherwise, let Oliver Twist and his gang of miscreants roll their own eggs down a steep curb into oncoming traffic
You Socialists want to let pesky little objects referred to as “kids” get in my way of having my elite Capitalist friends lose our infused thought of croquet and Eggs on the Lawn? NO YOU CAN’T.
No kids, huh?
Moe Lane (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 11:12AM EST (link)It shows.
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kyle8 (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 11:39AM EST (link)he skipped his meds today, that post made no sense in any way shape or form
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Yawn
cube Sunday, March 29th at 3:21PM EST (link)Snappy comeback.
G.O.P. Talking Points
cube Sunday, March 29th at 3:34PM EST (link)1)Teleprompter
2)Easter Eggs
3)Rush is/is not our Glorious Leader
4)Acorn
5)See 1.
Hey Moe (and Kyle): Are you gonna bark all day little dogs, or are you gonna bite? ARE YOU SERIOUS? IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO? Ooooooooooooh! The boogeymen Democrats are out to steal Easter Eggs and clearly are callous towards children. No wonder the G.O.P. is a twisted heap of junk train wreck.
No leader. No purpose. File Chapter 11 for intellectual bankruptcy. Across the board.
You were warned.
Neil Stevens (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 3:55PM EST (link)Blam.
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Thank you.
Bill S (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 4:07PM EST (link)Bloody good riddance.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
I add my thanks as well, Neil. The guy was a sniggling
janis (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 4:16PM EST (link)little idiot and a crashing bore as well. Although no doubt gamecock will show up and chide us all for not being willing to argue with a fool to no good end.
Let me add my thanks
Jack_Savage (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 5:23PM EST (link)And as a fond farewell, an example of the towering intellect of the American left:
1) It’s George Bush’s fault
2) See 1
Dear Leader. Singular purpose. Ongoing, slow motion train wreck, unfortunately involving innocent bystanders.
Bye bye, cube. See you in 2010.
P.S. Nice citation of das Führerprinzip, Nazi (nt)
Neil Stevens (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 5:11PM EST (link)RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
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Idiots are everywhere
Freedomlover (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 7:13PM EST (link)You’re such a clever little person, aren’t you? It’s so funny to hear the “caring, touchy, feely” liberals spout their mean spirited opinions.
You talk about “intellectual bankruptcy”, you don’t even have enough intelligence to know when you’re being scammed. The “Yes We Can” mantra, is really the “Yes You Will” followed by the unsaid, “Because we will control you.”
And the hits just keep on comin'
RJD (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 3:06PM EST (link)So, a process whereby anybody who wanted to could camp out for a chance at tickets was “unfair.” But, an online system* to buy tickets, where only those folks with access to a/an (high-speed) Internet connection was deemed fair to all?
Then again, as has been mentioned above, it’s amazing that the Easter Egg Roll is taking place at all, under the Obama Administration.
*otherwise known as yet another Obama campaign tool.
This is the template
Idolator (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 9:13PM EST (link)Take a program that is tried and true with long standing tradition and proven to work. Then you change it to a system that seems like it will work, provided that you don’t allow human beings to get involved. That way you can upset everyone involved.
After you have completed this task before you….Apply it to Health Care.
Change for the sake of Change is as bad as you can get. I thought this President didn’t want to spend money on unproven technology and systems, or does that just pertain to DOD systems and technologies.
Look at yourself! Have you looked at yourself?!?