Force Majeure

Check Mate
“It’s not so much about checking a box, like on a census form,” said Tracy Sefl, a Democratic political consultant in Washington. “It’s about the qualitative properties that the candidate takes to the position. In this case you’re talking about tremendous women, and then we get a whole bunch more white guys.” (NYT, 1/8/2013)

Actually - when Liberals start talking about diversity - it is exactly about checking a box. We'll pause for a second and offer a modicum of sympathy to Obama who is being called out on not having enough women in his "inner circle." OK, the second is up. Now we'll say that Obama is being bit by the very diversity nonsense that he has championed. 


Across The Universe
From Hurricane Sandy to Sandy Hook, the GOP response to almost every problem is to privatize it — and give it a tax cut. Republicans’ alternate universe is one where school principals carry guns, Halliburton pulls people from burning buildings and the government polices women’s bodies. (Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Washington Post, 1/8/2013)

Actually moonbat Vanden Heuvel is one-third correct. Republicans would prefer that principals carry guns, the net effect of which would be fewer school shooting casualties. As to fire fighters, even in Liberal fantasy land we have never heard Republicans question the efficacy of local fire fighters. Spurious charge. And finally, we can assure her that the government has absolutely zero interest in her body. Feminists don't want the government to tell them what they can and cannot do insofar as their bodies are concerned. They just want the government to pay for their abortions with our tax dollars.


Pushy
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy is pushing for a law banning large-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones authorities say accused gunman Adam Lanza used in the Newtown shooting. (NYT, 1/10/2013)

So the emerging Liberal Big Idea on guns is to ban automatic weapons and 30 bullet magazines. Here's a question assuming that they get their wish. If in the next school shooting (God forbid) a madman kills (only) 10 people using two pistols (six shots each), would Liberals consider that a success?


Partly
The vice president also will be meeting with the entertainment industry because, he said, "part of this is cultural as well." (NYT, 1/10/2013)

Well it's a start anyway and we will take it even though we get the sense that Liberals are just going through the motions. They still think the real problem is the guns.


Everybody
“Anyone who has a sash, bring it along, because tomorrow the people will be invested as president of the republic, because the people are Chávez,” Diosdado Cabello, the president of the National Assembly, said Wednesday. “All of us here are Chávez, the people in the street are Chávez, the lady who cooks is Chávez, the comrade who works as a watchman is Chávez, the soldier is Chávez, the woman is Chávez, the farmer is Chávez, the worker is Chávez; we’re all Chávez.” (NYT, 1/9/2013)

Even Sean Penn is Chavez!


ABCs
Part of the solution has been to add more letters, and in recent years the post-post-post-gay-rights banner has gotten significantly longer, some might say unwieldy. The emerging rubric is “L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.,” which stands for different things, depending on whom you ask.

“Q” can mean “questioning” or “queer,” an umbrella term itself, formerly derogatory before it was appropriated by gay activists in the 1990s. “I” is for “intersex,” someone whose anatomy is not exclusively male or female. And “A” stands for “ally” (a friend of the cause) or “asexual,” characterized by the absence of sexual attraction.

It may be a mouthful, but it’s catching on, especially on liberal-arts campuses.

The University of Missouri, Kansas City, for example, has an L.G.B.T.Q.I.A. Resource Center that, among other things, helps student locate “gender-neutral” restrooms on campus. Vassar College offers an L.G.B.T.Q.I.A. Discussion Group on Thursday afternoons. Lehigh University will be hosting its second annual L.G.B.T.Q.I.A. Intercollegiate Conference next month, followed by a Queer Prom. Amherst College even has an L.G.B.T.Q.Q.I.A.A. center, where every group gets its own letter. (NYT, 1/9/2013)

We have absolutely no comment on this.