British Judge Channels Herod, Orders Slaughter of an Innocent

Posted on May 3, 2017 by The Political Hat

     The death penalty was abolished in the U.K. decades ago, because it was considered uncivilized to execute rapists and murderers. This “civilized” society now considers the execution of the innocent baby Charlie Gard—in dismissal of the pleas to the contrary by the child’s loving parents—to be a paragon of bravery and dignity.

“Doctors can withdraw life support from a sick baby with a rare genetic condition against his parents’ wishes, a High Court judge has ruled.

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“In his judgement, Mr Justice Francis said he made the decision with the ‘heaviest of hearts’ but with ‘complete conviction’ that it was in the best interests of the child.”

King Herod, always looking out for the best interests of the child.

     Charlie’s father and mother, Chris and Connie, point out that there are medications and treatments that are available, and while there is no guarantee, there is still the possibility of hope.

“Chris added: ‘Everyone’s so negative saying he won’t have a quality of life. It could perform wonders. Every child with a similar gene who is on this medication – I believe there is 18 around the world – they are all still alive, and they are all still getting stronger. I don’t see how we can know this and then just go “Do you know what, no just let him go”. They’re all alive, they’re all getting stronger. Charlie deserves that chance.’

“While doctors have argued it would be fairer to withdraw life support, Connie argued: ‘All we’re asking is for two months to try this medication. We’ve been here for months trying to get this anyway and he hasn’t deteriorated in that time. And we will know if it works or not in that time.'”

     The cost, which we are told isn’t supposed to be a factor in a country with socialized medicine available, isn’t even a question in this case!

“A crowdfunding campaign set up to pay for Charlie’s treatment in America has passed its £1.3m target.”

     But no. The judge and cowardly politicians would rather tout platitudes of how being killed is in anyone’s best interest. They are explicitly ordering this child’s death.

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Gender Lysenkoism

Posted on May 2, 2017 by The Political Hat

     There are those on the “scientific Left” who would rather engage in “Gender Lysenkoism”. They deny that there are two biological sexes, claiming a dozen or so “sex determining genes” and declare that it is a “spectrum” and a “social construct” whilst “gender” is the all encompassing identity that can and ought to be imposed upon others’ objective reality.

     Yet at the same time, they declare that “gender” is something separate and distinct. This “gender” has to be an innate characteristic or otherwise it would not receive the same protection as race, for example. Yet, “gender”, too, is concomitantly a “social construct”. “Gender”, then, is a subjective objectivity much like certain non-Newtonian fluids whereby they are only solid when struck in contrast with an actual firm force of logic, reason, and reality. In other words, someone’s opinion of their own gender is considered a scientific fact, while biological sex isn’t.

     This raises the question of sexual orientation as a protected class: How can someone have an innate and immutable attraction to one or the other biological sex if biological sex itself does not biologically exist?

     In reality, biological sex is an indicator of either being male or female, in sexually dimorphic species such as human beings. Females have an XX chromosome pairing and males have an XY chromosome pairing. There are cases where there are X0 or XXY pairing, such as Klinefelter Syndrome, or where other conditions alter the natural course of development in utero of a child into either physically as a male or physically as a female, such as Swyer Syndrome. However, even there, the body tends towards either the male or female form. Additionally, there are often other complications, such as infertility that are part and parcel of these syndromes. In other words, such individuals are not a 3rd sex, nor are they proof of a “spectrum” of biological sexes.

     What we are seeing is the invention of “gender” as something other than, and distinct from, biological sex, differentiation the two, and then transferring any and all reproductive traits of biological sex to “gender”.

     What, then, is “gender”?

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Victims of Communism Day, 2017

Posted on May 1, 2017 by The Political Hat

     Today is Victims of Communism Day. It is also “May Day,” where “useful idiots” march and demonstrate in free countries, while those who have to actually live under Communism are made to march lest they face dire consequences.

     Let us take pause and listen to Daniel Maray who:

“serves as a witness to the ideology, history, and legacy of communism, speaking out for the more than 100 million people killed by communism.

“A witness to the historic events of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Daniel won a gold medal for fencing in the Olympic Games that same year. Victory turned to defeat, however, when Soviet tanks rolled back in to Budapest and resumed communist rule”

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News of the Week (April 30th, 2017)

Posted on April 30, 2017 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for April 30th, 2017


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Britain’s The Times Newspaper Declares War on… Anime

Posted on April 28, 2017 by The Political Hat

     The British daily newspaper “The Times” recently published an investigation about how Facebook refuses to remove what it deems to be “child pornography”. This is a serious accusation and something worth reporting about if true. However, The Times does itself no favors when it concentrates on examples of Japanese anime-style drawings and games.

     One of the four is clearly a real child whose face is blurred out, so The Times story ought not be dismissed out of hand, and it certainly is understandable the The Times would not show any actual child being hurt.

     However, that is no reason to include drawing, even drawings that are not even pornographic (such as two pictures from Chimame Chronicle (チマメクロニクル).

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Quick Takes – Critical Whiteness; Problematizing Whiteness; Invented Privileging of Whiteness

Posted on April 27, 2017 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: Whiter than white.

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     If there is one thing you learn at colleges now-a-days, it is how oppressive oppressors oppressively oppress. Case in point, Cal. State San Marcos’ “Whiteness Forum” where students were required to present a “critical look at Whiteness”:

“‘Students learn best when they actually do something as opposed to just hear something,’ said Professor Dreama Moon, who teaches the communications class called ‘Communicating Whiteness.’ Every year for the last 13 years, students have created projects to pull together the forum as part of the class, she said.

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“The syllabus for the class states the course seeks to examine ‘whiteness as a historical, social, political and ideological “invention” with a long trajectory within the United States and in the world.’ The syllabus defines whiteness ‘as a system of power based on racist ideology maintained discursively, institutionally, and materially.’

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“The ‘Whiteness Forum Project’ was an assignment in the class in which students were called on to ‘research, plan, and execute an educational forum on whiteness on the CSUSM campus.’

“‘The objective of the forum is make whiteness visible in a critical way for faculty, staff, and students on our campus as well as the greater community,’ the syllabus states. ‘The forum WILL NOT be a simple cultural celebration of whiteness, but an arena for critical education.'”

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Venezuela Turning in a Widening Gyre

Posted on April 26, 2017 by The Political Hat

     Much like the proverbial falcon no longer hearing the call of the falconer, Venezuela has ceased to be able to hear the call of sanity and rationality. In other words, in Venezuela, things are falling apart, the center does not hold, and merest anarchy has loosed upon Venezuelans’ world.

     Socialist death squads have loosed a blood-dimmed tide against which innocent protesters, in that cherished ceremony non-violent protest in all its democratic innocence, are drowned by an orgy of state-sanctions violence, where the only safety is to abandon any conviction of a better life in order to merely survive, as the passionate intensity of the well armed—and fed—storm troopers of a rather new nationalist socialism rages in the streets.

     The second coming of promised prosperity—now long forgotten—arising from the nationalization of other people’s property by the proletarian Spiritus Mundi gazing blankly and pitilessly as the darkness of poverty—now that they have run out of other people’s money—drops down while the indignant reel of what few brave protesters remain behind their barricades cast their shadow.

     Venezuela has become a socialist hell—a promised new Bethlehem thither slouches the rough beast of Maduro, vexed to nightmare in socialism’s rocking cradle by now Earth-rotting Hugo Chavez, his hour come round at last.

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Progressive Science: Pansexual Wood Sprites and Sad Clowns

Posted on April 25, 2017 by The Political Hat

     Bill Nye, who used to be known as the “science guy” a generation ago when he hosted a sub-par kiddy program, now fancies himself a warrior of the one true faith science. He has decided to highlight his dedication to science by embracing pansexual flirty wood sprites and using a sexual aid to pleasure oneself while having an internet audio-visual chat with a sad clown…

     Sure, this could just be chalked up to a big self-deprecating joke, but the song-and-dance number was just too spot on with how these #ILoveScienceSexually/Social Justice Wariors actually think and what they actually believe.

     “Science” has ceased to be an approach and a method for attaining a better understanding of how things work, and become but a tool, at best, to support the narrative when convenient, or a fig leaf for the secular faith that is “Social Justice”, and more broadly, the Progressive worldview.

     Already we see calls for a “Feminist” version of science, “anti-colonial”/”anti-White” “ways of knowing“, and other political shenanigans used to push the pre-determined correct narrative.

     The “science”, and medicine, must adhere to the revealed truth of “Social Justice”. Sexuality, gender, and even biological sex itself are both concomitantly a mandated “scientific consensus” of decreed innateness (2 + 2 = 3) and a “social construct” (2 + 2 = 5).

     At this point, this nouveau “science” has been relegated to asking how many trans-boys can dance on the head of a pin!

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How To Innovate Without Reinventing The Wheel

Posted on April 24, 2017 by The Political Hat

     It seems almost inevitable with government, that increasingly it takes longer to get less but with greater cost. Red tape and bureaucracy, combined with an obsession of reinventing the wheel, so as to speak, throttles innovation and development, as well as implementation itself. The type of innovation in the military seen during World War II is unheard of in this day and age.

     U.S. Navy engineers at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, however, were able to seemingly do the impossible by developing a ramjet missile in less than half a year.

     How?

     By keeping things small and buying, with a credit card, already available off-the-shelf products and cobbling themselves together a functional ramjet:

“The team needed to find a rocket capable of boosting the ramjet. Instead of developing one on their own, they used a model rocket engine that cost $900. They were even able to buy the parts with a credit card, avoiding the time-consuming defense acquisition process. The ability to simply order an and have it delivered instead of starting up a rocket motor factory made the process even faster, and the low, low cost meant they could afford to test often.

“The team also assumed from the outset that their designs would fail, a lot. But it also knew it would learn from each failure and could quickly incorporate lessons learned. By the third launch, they had a working scramjet missile propulsion unit.”

Take THAT Enemies of America!

     When push comes to shove, it is this ingenuity and ability to adapt and succeed that will prove to be a far better measure of our military capacity than any multi-billion dollar shiny new trinket the Pentagon swoons over at any given moment.

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News of the Week (April 23rd, 2017)

Posted on April 23, 2017 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for April 23rd, 2017


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