tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81260451494746173242009-10-13T16:38:36.808-04:00No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her. - Susan B. Anthonyjacilynnoreply@blogger.comBlogger231125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-10083752587352815352008-09-19T07:11:00.003-04:002008-09-20T04:20:29.031-04:00

The blog has moved! New address: http://lynjaci.wordpress.com Disney Lab Unveils Its Latest Line Of Genetically Engineered Child Stars

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-65993447325179424492008-09-18T05:08:00.000-04:002008-09-18T05:08:00.364-04:00

I have written a number of posts critical of liberal positions (and will probably write more in the future). Why pick on liberals instead of conservatives?After all, conservatives are worse. (Just ask anyone.)I attack the liberals instead because we need liberals. And it's gotten urgent. We need them to do their job, which is opposing the Republican party.I don't want one party rule. I want to

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-34998937371549594812008-09-16T05:07:00.003-04:002008-09-16T05:07:01.133-04:00

I have become endlessly fascinated with the contradiction between the Enlightment's promotion of democracy, on the one hand - and a natural elite, on the other.Those who are part of that natural elite see it as simply the truth - the only "real" truth. Those outside of that elite frequently view it as a religion in its own right - complete with religious music, such as the "inspired by evolution"

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-28023001741480301712008-09-15T05:05:00.005-04:002008-09-15T05:05:00.328-04:00

We psychologists have been examining the origins of ideology ever since Hitler sent us Germany's best psychologists, and we long ago reported that strict parenting and a variety of personal insecurities work together to turn people against liberalism, diversity, and progress. But now that we can map the brains, genes, and unconscious attitudes of conservatives, we have refined our diagnosis:

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-16210901959861546022008-09-14T12:58:00.006-04:002008-09-15T04:48:01.462-04:00

This in the news:Attendees at a Family Research Council convention were buying up “Obama Waffles” like hotcakes before organizers decided they contained images that could be deemed racist and suspended sales.Not long ago a family member of mine died, and clearing through the things I came across a dusty unopened box of "Bill's Skillet Cookies". It was virtually identical to this box, except that

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-47370682460022367862008-09-14T05:59:00.002-04:002008-09-15T08:39:27.782-04:00

Imagine your child wants to steal from someone. Do you teach that it's okay? Of course that's not okay.Does the fact that your child want to do so for a good cause make a difference?Well, yes. That makes all the difference. At least, that's how traditional liberal Democratic thinking goes.Consider the response if you point out that it's illegal to come to this country without permission, steal

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-19313920419314246192008-09-14T05:35:00.003-04:002008-09-14T05:51:19.136-04:00

It has begun - just as predicted, and more or less on schedule. Obama is gonna lose and it's all Hillary's fault.But while she may not have beaten Obama in the primaries, she may well have sown the seeds for his defeat in 52 days time. It's not just that Clinton continued to battle for the nomination beyond the point at which her winning became impossible and the major political damage to the

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-90111785093924976442008-09-13T05:05:00.006-04:002008-09-13T05:05:09.307-04:00

This from Boston Globe:The Emergence of Sarah Palin is actually the Return of Supermom. Mother of five, moose killer, and marathoner, she was back at work three days after her son's birth, juggling a Blackberry and a breast pump while making Helen Reddy look like a slacker. Call her a role model or a parody, but the fresh face of 2008 looks like the exhausted face of the 1980s.There actually is a

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-30365105269687628932008-09-12T21:39:00.001-04:002008-09-12T21:39:00.979-04:00

Apparently some people interpreted the crowd at the Republican convention chanting "USA! USA!" as some sort of attack.Attack on what? On the "God Damned America!" crowd?Well - it probably is, actually. But never mind that.The real question is, what is so bad about being patriotic?Oh, you can talk about the evils of America - but the real difference is only between those who choose to address

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-72757916740004847422008-09-12T05:09:00.000-04:002008-09-12T05:09:00.653-04:00

Observed out, about, and/or for sale:Another small town, religion-clinging, gun-toting American voting for McCain/PalinThe puck stops here! (hockey puck logo)Read My Lipstick!Kiss my lipstick, Obama!I'm voting for Sarah! (and the guy she's running with)One candidate uses change to promote his career.Sarah Palin uses her career to promote change!My VP candidate is hotter than Your VP candidate!We

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-4132473875363123732008-09-12T05:01:00.001-04:002008-09-12T05:02:03.052-04:00

Awhile back I was in a church - a liberal church - and something kind of funny happened: I said something that apparently sounded like I was hinting (or even outright asking) for assistance. The reaction embarrassed me. The people I was talking to got scared. Their eyes got big; they found excuses; they fled. I found myself wanting to rush to reassure everyone that I didn't mean anything of the

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-28882367225442796122008-09-11T05:35:00.003-04:002008-09-11T05:35:00.193-04:00

Maybe real political power is in knowing what you believe, and why you believe it - and then being able to explain why you know you're right.Fred Rogers takes on Mr. Nixon's public television budget cuts

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-44119467185906742632008-09-11T05:13:00.000-04:002008-09-11T05:13:00.976-04:00

Now this is just funny:Walsh said she called both campaigns and asked for free trinkets she could give the 7-year-olds to help them learn. If they did well, she explained, each Scout would earn her “Ms. President” patch. The tchotchkes would provide added incentive. A representative for John McCain responded immediately, sending Walsh a box filled with stickers and signs. The Barack Obama camp

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-56571111064324825422008-09-10T17:32:00.003-04:002008-09-10T19:08:03.029-04:00

Someone I have known for a long time said to me that I sound disturbingly "like a conservative".I suppose it's true enough. This election has been bringing a lot of rage to the surface. Many years' worth.Yeah - I'm angry at the Democrats. And I have more sympathy for the conservatives than I would have thought possible six months ago. The belief that the Republicans are the cause of everything

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-31320797712664596922008-09-10T05:58:00.001-04:002008-09-10T05:58:01.233-04:00

Apparently, I am not alone in "not being a feminist". From City Journal:The large majority of women—surveys have put the number at somewhere around 75 percent—shy away from calling themselves feminists, even while supporting some movement goals like equal pay. The primary reason for their coyness: feminism’s ambivalence at best, and hostility at worst, toward motherhood and marriage. The

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-80409687800668064262008-09-10T05:28:00.000-04:002008-09-10T05:28:00.752-04:00

The problem with Hillary Clinton is that she wasn't beautiful enough. The problem with Sarah Palin is that she is.The sexism is everywhere, of course, but this one strikes me as particularly funny, because it's just so obviously juvenile:Republican strategists have made it clear that the GOP's only chance to win is by reframing the election as a battle of images. And right now, Palin is the pinup

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-69121746499111507082008-09-10T05:01:00.003-04:002008-09-10T05:01:00.964-04:00

It's still about the 'Wal-Mart Moms'.I think the name "Wal-Mart Mom" is a punishment the press corps is dishing out to get back at women (PUMA women?) who refuse to get in line, shut up, and be obedient. I think we should just be blunt and say what they really mean: white trash women.We know that this group doesn't like Obama. We know that he's inexperienced and that he's got the wrong beliefs

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-14204583271723885222008-09-09T21:05:00.000-04:002008-09-09T21:05:01.231-04:00

Why isn't Hillary out there, doing more for Obama?Where are you? We haven't heard from you since your strong and eloquent speech at the Democratic National Convention. You might be taking a well-deserved vacation--certainly you must need one after all those arduous months campaigning. But we need to hear from you right now.Let's ask that loud. No, I mean LOUD.Hillary, stop doing whatever you're

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-2235189503570287902008-09-09T20:25:00.000-04:002008-09-09T20:25:01.200-04:00

The Dems were cheering when it was our side. From Salon:With last night’s cheerfully vicious speeches from Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin, the Republicans did what they always do in order to win elections: they exploited raw cultural divides while mocking, belittling and demonizing Democratic leaders. Yet again, they delivered brutally effective and deeply personal blows to the Democratic

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-29294015704261043112008-09-08T19:02:00.003-04:002008-09-08T22:33:16.514-04:00

They are deciding women's rights must be more than a slogan and actually belong to every woman, not just the sort approved of by left-wing special interest groups.- A Feminist's Argument for McCain's VPTammy Bruce, San Francisco ChronicleI happened upon a comment that stopped me cold, from a blog I otherwise really enjoy:And it is meaningless to talk of female subservience as a valid “choice”

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-40531343541356685592008-09-08T05:20:00.004-04:002008-09-14T03:52:11.374-04:00

In her LA Times op-ed, Gloria Steinem tells us what real women are and what real women want.In the process, she excommunicated almost every woman in my family from the sisterhood.She could have taken a persuasive tone, and presented fact. Instead, she talks down to us, as the self-proclaimed Keeper of Real Womanhood, adopting a tone that is, at best, condescending.Although Steinem grudgingly

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-92086505488959585432008-09-08T05:11:00.003-04:002008-09-08T07:35:04.995-04:00

The basic idea of feminism is a paradigm shift - one embodied in the phrase, "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle".The idea is that, if the problem is that women are trained to be a man's helpmate, the solution is to separate completely from man.The problem IMO is that feminists went too far. It isn't that they attacked women who collaborated with the enemy (although they did

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-58537453000303152832008-09-08T05:03:00.000-04:002008-09-08T05:03:00.341-04:00

from CorrenteSo if we're socializing all the risk, why don't we socialize all the profit?This is a big issue that demands more attention.If a company is headed for collapse, and you do nothing, the company's collapse could take the entire economy down with it. (Think Great Depression - maybe even bigger. Maybe much bigger.)So the government intervenes, bails out the company saves the company (or

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-24832433372245204762008-09-07T07:32:00.011-04:002008-09-08T02:29:33.992-04:00

Erica Jong:White trash America certainly has allure for voters. Some people think rednecks are more American than Harvard educated intellectuals of mixed race. God help us...I am stunned.I don't even know where to start.

jacilynnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8126045149474617324.post-82331473296748301622008-09-07T05:59:00.006-04:002008-09-08T08:07:24.130-04:00

Only a Democratic strategist could think this up:If the election remains close, the next president could very well be picked by what Chris Lehane, a Democratic strategist, calls “Wal-Mart Moms” — white working women with children living in the exurbs and in rural parts of battleground states, who may make up a swing sliver of the electorate.Now there's a good reason to vote Republican.I dunno

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