News of the Week (February 20th, 2022)

Posted on February 20, 2022 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for Feb. 20th, 2022


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Trudeau The Tyrant

Posted on February 18, 2022 by The Political Hat

     Justin Trudeau has shown himself to be his (real) daddy’s son and started overtly acting like a totalitarian tyrant with his response to the Canadian trucker protest over Covid measures being imposed.

     Your humble author decided way back in the middle of 2020 to ignore the vast majority of “hot takes” about Corona-chan, and this article is not about the actual requirements, or even the trucker protest including whether said protest is illegal and if so what would be the most prudent way of upholding the law.   This article isn’t even about the use of “emergency” powers and martial law… per se, but it is about what is being done to perpetuate them. Specifically, the prevention of the Canadian Parliament from meeting to discuss the emergency powers and potentially vote to end them.

     A police action was used as justification for canceling the debate.

“Canada’s Parliament will not meet Friday to debate the emergency powers Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked on Monday because of a “police operation” to clear out the Freedom Convoy protesters in downtown Ottawa.

“The House of Commons was supposed to continue debate on whether to affirm the use of the Emergencies Act to crack down on the anti-vaccine-mandate protests. But in a message to lawmakers, House Speaker Anthony Rota announced the House will not sit because ‘a police operation is expected to take place on Wellington Street and other locations in the downtown core of Ottawa.’”

     And yes, members of the Canadian Parliament wanted to meet and exercise their legal prerogative but have been prohibited to do so.

     And, if they can’t meet, they can’t vote to end the emergency declaration.

“If either the House of Commons or the Senate of Canada votes against the motion to confirm the declaration of an emergency, the emergency will end.”

     Preventing a parliament from meeting to stop them from refusing to agree with a dictatorial emergency act sure sounds like a greater threat to democracy than what the emergency declaration was in response to.

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Science On The Verge Of Creating Hyperintellegent Catgirl Mentats

Posted on February 18, 2022 by The Political Hat

     When the Butlerian Jihad has come and went, what will we replace A.I. and other computers with?   One demonstrated solution that is superior to A.I. is to use living brain cells.

“Living brain cells in a dish can learn to play the video game Pong when they are placed in what researchers describe as a ‘virtual game world’. ‘We think it’s fair to call them cyborg brains,’ says Brett Kagan, chief scientific officer of Cortical Labs, who leads the research.

“Many teams around the world have been studying networks of neurons in dishes, often growing them into brain-like organoids. But this is the first time that mini-brains have been found to perform goal-directed tasks, says Kagan.”

     That’s right, we are not one step closer to creating genetically engineered hyperintellegent catgirls who can perform the calculations on the level of a Mentat!

https://twitter.com/Kamaniki/status/1446732248800063494

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The California Way: You Should House The Homeless Yourself; Recycling Is Mandatory; Breaking Into Cars

Posted on February 17, 2022 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: You don’t disagree with the Nomenklatura, are you Kulak?

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     Who is responsible for fixing this mess that the Nomenklatura caused? Private property owners, of course!

“As the Bay Area continues to struggle under the weight of its homelessness crisis, officials and nonprofits are asking local residents to do more than hand out meals or donate spare change. They’re asking them to open up their homes.

“Nearly 30,000 people are unhoused in the five-county Bay Area, and there isn’t nearly enough room in the region’s existing affordable housing developments. To fill the gaps, service providers increasingly are recruiting private landlords to take in homeless tenants. Some property owners are renting out entire units in exchange for agreements that the government or a nonprofit will cover the rent. Others are offering up spare bedrooms in their homes – sometimes in exchange for a small stipend, and sometimes as a purely charitable act.”

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School Transparency In Oregon?

Posted on February 16, 2022 by The Political Hat

     Oregon is not known for standing up for parents against its own educational Leviathan, either now or in the past. Some Oregonians in the past stood up against the state taking away their parental rights when it came to education of their children, and some Oregonians today are trying to do the same by introducing a measure in the legislature to mandate transparency in public schools’ curriculum. Senate Bill 1575 reads, in part:

(c)(A) For each course of study offered by a school district, the district school board shall ensure that the following information is made available to the public on the school district’s website:

(i) The title of, or other descriptive information for, any textbooks and instructional materials used for the course and, when available, a link for the textbook or instructional materials;

(ii) A syllabus for, or written summary of, the course; and (iii) When applicable, identification of the state academic content   standards that are be-ing satisfied by the course.

(B) The district school board shall ensure that any changes to the information described in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph are reflected on the school district’s website within 30 days of the change.

     The Oregon legislature is dominated by Democrats, so the chance this passes is slim to none, but it is an important first step in fighting back against Leviathan.

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When Racial Segregation In Schools Becomes Woke

Posted on February 16, 2022 by The Political Hat

     Racial segregation in schools was, in the 20th Century, a societal cancer of both racism and racial inequality under the law that White Supremacists fought for, that was ended by the banner victory of Brown v. Board of Education.

     Racial segregation in schools is, in the 21st Century, a paragon of “Racial Justice” that only a White Supremacist fight against, at least according to supporters of this public school created specifically for “BIPOC” (i.e. “Black, indigenous, persons of color”) students.

“Portland has been labeled the ‘whitest big city’ in America. That can make it difficult for some BIPOC (Black, indigenous, people of color) kids to see themselves reflected in their communities and schools.

“That’s why there’s an effort to make a space specifically for BIPOC students where they feel seen, heard and their experiences are reflected in curriculum.

“‘It’s very hard to learn when you don’t see yourself in the curriculum. You don’t see yourself in educational model,” said Eric Knox, executive director and founder of HOLLA, a nonprofit in Portland that pairs youth of color with mentors of color.

“‘Every spring we match our kids or mentees with mentors […] and we have more kids wanting to get mentorship than we have mentors,’ Knox said.

“From the beginning, in 2013, Knox said his intention was to open a school for BIPOC students.”

     Note how this us justified by essentially saying that “Black, indigenous, people of color” have different ways of knowing that that they are incapable of understanding, at least without greatly “colonizing their minds”, what White (and apparently also “White-adjacent” races/ethnicities). Saying that used to be considered racist and offered as proof by White Supremacists; saying that now makes you a woke racial justice warrior.

     Hat Tip: Jazz Shaw.

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Fish-Eating Vegan Mayor Warns Of The Scourge Of Cheese

Posted on February 15, 2022 by The Political Hat

     For New York Mayor Eric Adams, the scourge of heroin has met its equal in evil in the form of… cheese.

“Adams, a self-proclaimed vegan who claims to have cured his own diabetes and even reversed blindness he was experiencing in one eye by switching to a plant-based diet, was rolling out new initiatives to encourage New Yorkers ‘to have as many plant-based meals as possible.’

“While preparing a bowl of vegan chili in front of City Hall’s press corps, Adams veered into a tangent about the addictiveness of certain foods, particularly cheese.

“‘Food is like a drug,’ Adams said. ‘And in fact, the studies show the same level of brain that encourages you to use drugs also addicts you to food.’”

     Does the Mayor think that cheese is the new crack epidemic? Will police be ordered to ignore the sale of rocks of crack and focus on evil peddlers of cheese cubes?

     At least he’s taking some crime seriously, and will have New Yorkers from the greatest threat of all: Cheese. Heck, some New Yorkers will even eat pizza off the floor of a subway station to get their fix!

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Public Education: Another Day, Another Assault

Posted on February 14, 2022 by The Political Hat

     Some argue that not letting students attend school in private is psychological child abuse. But sometimes, making a child go to a public school results in literal physical child abuse… as Network in Vegas has uncovered.

     But the existence of such videos just means that the public and the public schools can work together to fight bullying, right?

Funny how a public school wants to keep the hell within their not-so-hallowed halls so very private and away from the eyes of parents… and of voters.

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Flannel Is Now Racist

Posted on February 14, 2022 by The Political Hat

     When asked what “equity” is or what “understand[ing] our system with an equity lens”, most school districts will be less than honest. When asked what isn’t “equity” you’ll hear the resounding cry of FLANNEL!!1!

     Why?

     Because some residents at a public forum who criticized Critical Race Theory wore flannel.   Not most of the people at the public forum, just some of the people. This isn’t some “White Supremacist” symbol. It’s just people in the northern parts of the United States wearing… flannel.

This is what “White Supremacy” looks like.

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News of the Week (February 13th, 2022)

Posted on February 13, 2022 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for Feb. 13th, 2022


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