What political-strategy wiz came up with this?

I'm far from the first or only blogger to remark on the Anna Wintour and Sarah Jessica Parker campaign ads for the MEC, and Pundit & Pundette have a roundup of observation that will get anyone still unacquainted with the matter started.

Still, it was such a mind-blowingly stupid idea that I can't resist chiming in.  It paints the biggest target on the MEC I can imagine.

 My main question is, will Spin Sisters author Myrna Blyth be chiming in on it?  I hope so.  She understands the fashion / feelings / relationships sector of the magazine-publishing world from a seasoned insider's perspective.

And while we're on the subject of identity politics . . .

 . . . would David Axwelrod care to explain just how it is that Marco Rubio as the Pub VP pick would be "an insult to Hispanics?"

Not near as many as most people think

It's almost as if there's someting cosmic about the way news items come across the radar screen in clusters by topic.

After putting up the previous post, I ran across this Atlantic Monthly piece by Garance Franke-Ruta on the wildly overblown perception among the American public of what percentage of it is homosexual.

This paragraph is particularly insightful:

These numbers are significant because identity -- and not behavior -- is the central determinant of whether or not someone will seek a same-sex marriage. A straight woman who makes out a couple of times with a female friend in college is not going to seek a same-sex marriage, nor is a guy who fooled around once with a male friend while drunk in high school. Neither individual is demographically relevant to the question of how often same-sex marriages will occur. And it's not clear at all what fraction of bisexuals will seek out same-sex marriages.

 I've long thought that establishing a broad-brush straight/gay dichotomy mainly served the purpose of those who would politicize it.  Balkanize the American public and it won't unify and toss out the FHer overlords.

Once you give in to the Tolerance Enforcement Squad . . .

Sometimes another nation's experience with proceeding headlond in a given policy direction - think Greece and early retirement, or Britain and socialist health care - you can see where we are headed if we emulate it.

Today's example: Canada, in its role as the first English-speaking nation to legalize same-gender "marriage."  Since that occurred in 2005, cultural and even legal forces have ramped up their efforts to silence proponents of actual marriage and family, resulting in firings and criminal charges.  The climate is now one in which upholders of wnat normal people consider the noblest aspects of Western civilization gets you branded as a boneheaded hater.

It's this kind of stuff that tempers what ought to be our unmitigated zeal for the candidate who would defeat the Most Equal Comrade

Picking a guy like Mike Leavitt who is problematic in the extreme to head what will hopefully be the transition team at the end of the year just reeks of cluelessness.

Here's what you can do with your demand that we stop

Florida tells the DoJ that it has no intentions of stopping its purge of illegal aliens and dead people from its voter rolls.

Just as with the hair-raisingly precarious state of the world economy, this grim fact isn't going away

J.E. Dyer on Iran's steady, fiercely determined focus on a nuclear arsenal that continues apace and is for all intents and purposes at the stage where it can stockpile five bombs.

When you've lost Mo . . .

The NYT's resident redhead would seem to be a bit disappointed in the MEC.

The MEC regime's Department of Justice is a sewer of corruption - today's edition

The state of Florida knows it has dead people, illiegal aliens and the like on its voter rolls.  It's been trying to get the Homeland Security database of its population to be able to do this, an effort  responded to with foot-dragging. Now, DOJ is stepping in, telling Florida to stop

Elise Shore, a DOL Voting rights section attorney, is the front person for this.  She's a real humdinger.  Check out her background at the link.

And what's it to you?

Neo-neocon takes on ABC News for its attempt to make a few thousand rich Americans who have found perfectly legal ways to avoid paying income taxes look like they're doing something dastardly.

A ringing smack upside the head to start your weekend

A Saturday morning at the beginning of a new month following a week of developments such as - well, such as the ones we've chronicled here at LITD - is an opportune time to reflect on how it all - the grim economic picture in America, Europe and China, the way the MEC's Lech-Walesa-is-too-political message to Poland revealed him once and for all for the freedom-hating aspirant to totalitarianism that he is, Eric Holder's continuing corruption of the Justice Department, DC comics outing the Green Lantern as gay, Elizabeth Warren's pathetic attempt to portray herself as a Cherokee - fits synergistically, reveals an overall picture of our current juncture.

Once again, we do well to enlist Mark Steyn in the project.  His latest NRO piece, "Twilight of the West," addresses the levels of our collapse - economic, political, cultural - in the way that shows their real seamlessness.  As we bloggers say, read the whole thing, but for now take in this money paragraph:

[T]he unsustainable “bubble” is not student debt or subprime mortgages or anything else. The bubble is us, and the assumptions of entitlement. Too many citizens of advanced Western democracies live a life they have not earned, and are not willing to earn. Indeed, much of our present fiscal woe derives from two phases of human existence that are entirely the invention of the modern world. Once upon a time, you were a kid till you were 13 or so; then you worked; then you died. That bit between childhood and death has been chewed away at both ends. We invented something called “adolescence” that now extends not merely through the teenage years but through a desultory half decade of Whatever Studies at Complacency U up till you’re 26 and no longer eligible for coverage on your parents’ health-insurance policy. At the other end of the spectrum, we introduced something called “retirement” that, in the space of two generations, has led to the presumption that able-bodied citizens are entitled to spend the last couple of decades, or one-third of their adult lives, as a long holiday weekend.

The emphasis on the key phrase is mine.  It tells the whole story of everything from why banks in Spain are failing to why American television is a sewer.

The plain fact, and it is the message intended by this blog's name, is that there's not much of a chance we'll get to continue living the way everyone reading this has lived for however long they've been around.  Perhaps - perhaps - if Tea Party Pubs accomplish a blowout takeover of both houses of Congress and a President Romney can be continually nudged to the right, we as a nation can take the uncomfortable steps necessary to remove government involvement in what we eat, how we care for our health, how we insure ourselves, how we plan for our sunset years, and what kinds of energy we use to live and make things.  We would then join  - who? Canada, I guess, for the time being anyway - in turning around the ship of Western civilization now speeding toward the iceberg. But in the meantime, Europe is going to continue its collapse, Iran and North Korea are going to use their nuclear status to pose an apocalyptic threat, the middle east is going to further descend into choas  - oh, and, yes, our own culture, which is already basically ruined, will still be in a state of ruination.

So are we at a point where all that can be done is to look at how we might have prevented this state of affairs?

That's not a question that can be answered by collective consensus.  That's something to be decide in each American heart.

The fact that this blog goes on with at least a post every day is my way of making public my decision.  The forces of darkness have not taken me out.  Therefore I struggle for the possibility that light can prevail somehow.

Will Eric Holder have anything to say about this?

Massachussetts FHers attending today's state convention in Boston will be required to show photo IDs.

Everything this regime asks us to put our faith in is a fallacy

The CBO estimates that the "stimulus" may have cost - this is no typo - $4.1 million per job.

There is nothing to call it but freedom-hatred

For one thing, this makes the MEC's third Polish offence this week.  Tells Poland that sending Lech Walesa to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the memory of Jan Karsi is 86ed because Walesa in "too political."

The levels on which this is disgusting are myriad. Especially, as the linked piece points out, when another recipient of this year's medal was the Marxist Dolores Huerta.

There is no doubt what the MEC is about now.

He has to go if America is to rally from flatline status.

It's on purpose - today's edition

A paltry 69,000 jobs were created in May.  March and April reports were revised downward.

The exquisitely disingenuous Eric Holder

His latest stunt is rich indeed.  Counting on people of his own race to be dumb enough to buy the notion that voter ID laws somehow disenfranchise them.