Sentences with phrase «moving deck chairs»

So all these other discussions of «what we can or should do» are just a charade, moving the deck chairs on the Titanic, and they will go on and on and on like a Celine Dion song until planetary habitability declines so badly that civilization collapses anyway from our inactions and repeated mistakes.

They are moving deck chairs around on the Titanic.

The mechanisms debated today are of course important, but there is an element of moving the deck chairs on the Titanic about this debate.

I'm always a little concerned that, as a PAC member, I'm slowly being co-opted by HISD / Aramark — snowed by news of small, superficial changes when all we're really doing, as Dr. Susan Rubin (of the Two Angry Moms) might say, is moving deck chairs on the Titanic.

Not exact matches

Seems like we are moving toward MORE GUNS as the solution, so next time some psycho starts gunning people down in a dark theater, maybe the best course will be to hit the deck and crawl under the chairs as the bullets start flying around in the dark as George Zimmerman - type cop wannabes pull out their heat at the first loud bang and start blasting away in the dark at «susp - icious» people.

Boards do a lot of moving the chairs around on the deck, but they're not really steering the boat.»

What it is — is moving the chairs around on the deck of the Titanic while blaming and demonizing teachers and the teaching profession.

Absent the systems and strategies Principal Glover had worked with the Global Village to embed in the organization of the school, they would be equivalent to moving chairs around on the deck of the titanic.

Bring a book and cold drink to a lounge chair on the sunny deck, or move the chairs into the shallow end of the infinity pool.

Take your morning coffee at the covered outdoor sitting area and check your email via Wi - Fi, then move to a row of lounge chairs on the pool deck or the infinity pool itself.

The former CEQ Chief of Staff has moved on to a position with ExxonMobil, but rearranging the deck chairs does not make the problems go away and, as part of his legacy, the National Assessment he played a role in suppressing remains suppressed.

It's just moving the chairs around the deck of the Titanic at this point.