Are we clear? 

Crystal.

At least we should be, yet feminists continue to argue in the face of repetitive contrary evidence, that they honor the differences between men and women and think feminism is about choices. They can think that only because they've not paid attention. For example, at Slate, for The Feminine Mystique's 50th, came this gem from a feminist who'd never read the book: 

I mean, Friedan compares, at chapter length, the plight of women stuck at home with their kids to concentration camp victims. Sure, I’ve never had to sit alone with a mop and a crying baby and no Internet...but that seems more than a bit extreme to me. In fact, as much as I found myself cheering at the stirring introduction and conclusion, for much of the middle of the book, I was muttering and angrily underlining what I found to be particularly judgmental passages.... Is it any wonder it occasionally feels like feminism has devolved into a spinning carousel of accusatory blog posts about how your choices aren’t the exact right choices (including your choice to blog about your choices), with this as one of our founding texts?

Worry more about the kind of husband you are, than the wife she is. Vice versa for her. 

Jim Chase, slowly and then all at once. That's how history moves. 

Domenech, you are right, the public facility or church cases are coming. SSM is just the catalyst. On possible argument occurs to me. Current tax exempt status for churches is based on the charitable nature of churches.  We will need to argue that Separation of Church and State means that the State cannot tax a religious institution. As the SSM issue will illustrate, the State's ability to tax a church gives it power over the church in violation of the First Amendment. We will have to be ready with standards for defining a church, which should include time and size elements lest every new faction tries to claim church status. We will also need define who controls the tax exempt funds; we can't let it turn into a mere tax shelter for rich people to park their money.

If we can establish that religious institutions of a threshold age and size in which the money is controlled by the officers of the church cannot be subject to tax, then at least the government would lose the coercive power of granting tax status. 

I look forward to listening to this and not just because I have started reading everything from Abby Schachter. I suspect I will relate. We moved back from London 18months ago for family. We loved it there, but nothing--not the career advantages, the school we loved, or the walking culture--they couldn't replace family. Both sides of our family live in Houston. We lost London, but gained back grandparents and longtime friends. It has been a harder transition than I expected, but it was worth it.

I wrote 2 articles at PJLifestyle on essentially this point. We want women to act like men and only respect the heroines who throw punches like the guys. One of the commenters referred to these 100-120 lbs ladies engaging in beautifully choreographed fights as "waif fu." I loved that.  

Then, last week I started taking self defense again. The giant, hulking man of a head instructor told us how he came to a more practical defense program. A black or brown belt in 4 different martial arts, when he was held up at gunpoint about 12 years ago, he had nothing. He was robbed and shot at. He now calls those pretty disciplines "fantasy martial arts." In fantasies, and Hollywood, are the only places pretty fights work.

Ironic, foolish, counterproductive, tragic—lots of adjectives work there, none of them good. When they set men's standards as The standard, they set women up for failure. 

I'm in Houston. Husband is an adjunct in Austin so is there about once a month. We were in Dallas last weekend. The state is hauling people in. I think half of Dallas is under construction to accommodate influx. Schools are busting. 

We can keep up, but I'm with Joseph. Californians should leave their politics in California.

It's more what we decided was valuable, what "it" was. Men got paid and got worldly credit. For equality, we had to be just like the men. Dig down in a lot of feminist thought and that's the equality we want: money and recognition. 

I'm with Hoyacon and posted about it yesterday. We do need in roads to the media. We need to create new media. I posted today on some other things we can do right now to spread our right media. But those will take time. Right now we must deal with the media we have. We can't touch fiscal policy right now or they will blame us. Let them have their way and hope for a hot and fast burn.

Oh good grief. Now I wish I had a non blurry picture of Ted Cruz and his wife when they won when they kissed and embraced each other.  http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2012/08/01/a-non-political-observation-from-victory-night-with-ted-cruz/

I have a harsh post on this in the member feed this morning. To change the metanarrative, we have to make sure people know it is the progressives' policies that cause their woe. In this media environment, that means we have to step back and let them have their way fiscally. If we offer anything to mitigate the coming economic fall, they will blame us for what they caused.

The only way out is through.

I see that. He needs to be more grim, more direct that we are letting them have the plan they want. He's trying to say we will do this together, but we don't want our fingerprints on what is to come. 

Red, my hope is that the collapse will come fast enough that our kids can walk out of the dark. One fast burn. Hannan has a related post from a few weeks ago: Things can't go on like this.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100186768/the-death-of-politics-and-the-birth-of-idemocracy/

"who want to give Mr. Obama’s policies a shot, and see what happens."

It was the morning after, 2008, when a friend on FB complained about political arguments and said something like 'with Obama we are just trying something new.' I mentally snapped at the "new." That comment changed everything for me. It is why I started blogging. How could anyone—a school teacher no less—think Obama's ideas were new.

I know. And we've just got to let it burn while we make sure everyone knows they lit the matches. The only way out is through.

I'm not going as crazy as RightinChicago, but I think the polls are way off in a Reagan v. Carter kind of way. I give Obama the lost cause of California and his home state of Hawaii plus a little more for a costal state or two: 

Romney equal to or greater than 450.

I know it's crazy. I just have a hunch that crazy is due. Never underestimate the power of the American electorate reminding pols who is really in charge here.