Quick Takes – California Dark Ages, California Serfs, and California DERP

Posted on February 18, 2016 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: California Unter Alles

     First, a little (ironic) mood music: California Ueber Alles

     Carrying on…

     Victor Davis Hanson speaks eloquently on the downfall of small Central Valley farmers:

“I recently took a few road trips longitudinally and latitudinally across California. The state bears little to no resemblance to what I was born into. In a word, it is now a medieval place of lords and peasants—and few in between. Or rather, as I gazed out on the California Aqueduct, the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Luis Reservoir, I realized we are like the hapless, squatter Greeks of the Dark Ages, who could not figure out who those mythical Mycenaean lords were that built huge projects still standing in their midst, long after Lord Ajax and King Odysseus disappeared into exaggeration and myth. Henry Huntington built the entire Big Creek Hydroelectric Project in the time it took our generation to go to three hearings on a proposed dam.

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“A final twist was the infusion of a trillion dollars of capital into a few hands in the relatively small environs of the Silicon Valley. The tech boom, in connection with the mass influx of illegal immigrants into central California, sent coastal-corridor real estate into the stratosphere, from La Jolla and Monterey to Napa and Sonoma. California was redefined as coastal California—and the ‘rest.’ A Californian is rich if he lives in a hovel in Menlo Park and poor if he lives in a castle in Stockton or Madera.”

     From independent farmers to willing serfs…

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Swedish Feminists are Objectively Pro-Rape

Posted on February 17, 2016 by The Political Hat

     Previously we have seen how “Intersectional Feminism” leads to the “Feminist” position that protecting rapists is more “Feminist” (in a intersectional way) and thus more important than protecting women from Rape.  In that article, the image that was originally used was photoshopped to change “refugees” to “rapists” and has since been updated with the original photo.  The argument still stood, but perhaps the photoshopped picture was more honest than previously thought.

     While the source of that Tweet is questionable in its neutrality, it does link to a Swedish article where Feminists tell Swedish men not to protect them.  The comments were in response to hooligans beating up refugees in response to the coordinated rapes by refugee men against indigenous women.  While mob “justice” is abhorrent, it is less abhorrent than importing a replacement population, irrespective of any individual’s propensity to rape, and then trying to silence the truth when people complain when one’s own country’s women are disproportionally raped by those same mass-imported refugees?

     These women either believe that non-Swedish men can not rape Swedish women, or that Intersectional Feminism mandates that they lay back during the rape and think of the glorious multi-culturalism!

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Doctors Required To Ignore Biological Reality

Posted on February 16, 2016 by The Political Hat

     Biologically, human beings are a dimorphic species, with a male sex and a female sex.  Though there are medical abnormalities, this dimorphism remains clear and obvious… unless you are an idjit regulator at the Dept. of Health and Human Services:

“The proposed rule, issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, says that it is aimed at banning discrimination against transgender individuals under the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act.

“Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act cites decades-old federal laws that prohibit any individual from being denied benefits or discriminated against in any health program or federally funded activity on the basis of race, color, nationality, sex, disability and age.

“However, the Office of Civil Rights is now interpreting ‘sex’ to include ‘gender identity’ and ‘sex stereotypes.’

“The consequences of this change could be wide-reaching.

“The proposed regulation defines ‘sex stereotypes,’ in part as ‘expectations that gender can only be constructed within two distinct opposite and disconnected forms (masculinity and femininity), and that gender cannot be constructed outside of this gender construct (individuals who identify as neither, both, or as a combination of male and female genders).'”

     And what will make doctors accept and perpetuate this insanity?  The full force of Leviathan of course!

“If finalized, the proposed regulation would be binding on all health insurers that offer plans under the Affordable Care Act, including those participating in health insurance exchange plans.

“The regulation would also apply to approximately 133,000 health care facilities, all state Medicaid programs, all private insurers that receive federal funding, as well as almost all physicians in the United States who accept some form of federal reimbursement.

“Failure to comply could result in a loss of government funding and other legal penalties.”

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Bernie Sanders, A Candidate of Failure, Envy, and Scapegoating

Posted on February 15, 2016 by The Political Hat

     Bernie Sanders is a bitter old man.  He is also a failure who can only draw a steady paycheck by sucking off the government teat as a politician:

“His family managed to send him to the University of Chicago. Despite a prestigious degree, however, Sanders failed to earn a living, even as an adult. It took him 40 years to collect his first steady paycheck — and it was a government check.

“‘I never had any money my entire life,’ Sanders told Vermont public TV in 1985, after settling into his first real job as mayor of Burlington.

“Sanders spent most of his life as an angry radical and agitator who never accomplished much of anything. And yet now he thinks he deserves the power to run your life and your finances — ‘We will raise taxes;’ he confirmed Monday, ‘yes, we will.’

“One of his first jobs was registering people for food stamps, and it was all downhill from there.

“Sanders took his first bride to live in a maple sugar shack with a dirt floor, and she soon left him. Penniless, he went on unemployment. Then he had a child out of wedlock. Desperate, he tried carpentry but could barely sink a nail. ‘He was a shi**y carpenter,’ a friend told Politico Magazine. ‘His carpentry was not going to support him, and didn’t.’

“Then he tried his hand freelancing for leftist rags, writing about ‘masturbation and rape’ and other crudities for $50 a story. He drove around in a rusted-out, Bondo-covered VW bug with no working windshield wipers. Friends said he was ‘always poor’ and his ‘electricity was turned off a lot.’ They described him as a slob who kept a messy apartment — and this is what his friends had to say about him.

“The only thing he was good at was talking … non-stop … about socialism and how the rich were ripping everybody off. ‘The whole quality of life in America is based on greed,’ the bitter layabout said. ‘I believe in the redistribution of wealth in this nation.'”

     In other words, he is a failure, and he blames his own failure on others, specifically on Wall Street and eeevil bankers who clearly are to blame for making him a failure due to some eeevil scheme and financial plot (that Sanders is ethnically Jewish is beyond mere irony).  He envies those who are successful, and he wants to bring them down.  As Margaret Thatcher would say, he would rather the poor be poorer provided the rich were less rich.

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News of the Week (February 14th, 2016)

Posted on February 14, 2016 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for February 14th, 2016


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Antonin Scalia, R.I.P.

Posted on February 14, 2016 by The Political Hat

     Supreme Court Justice Anonin Scalia passed away.  This is indeed grave news.  Many court cases  such as Citizens United v. FEC and District of Columbia v. Heller were decided by a slim 5-4 majority.  An Obama appointee would inevitably eviscerate the 1st and 2nd Amendments, and may even be the death knell of the Constitution itself.

R.I.P.

     Though Sen. McConnell has already said the appointment of a new justice should wait until the next President is inaugurated.  However, the pressure on “moderate” Republican Senators to approve Obama’s appointment, and for Sen. Reid to force a floor vote by discharge.  At the very least, Obama can appoint a recess appointment since the Senate is currently in recess, and that justice can do dame this year.  The machinations on both sides are well under way.

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The Patriarchy™ Can LITERALLY Turn Off Parts of Women’s Minds

Posted on February 13, 2016 by The Political Hat

     It would seem that the power of The Patriarchy™ is so powerful, that it can LITERALLY turn off part of the brains of women!

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Free Speech is Now Racist

Posted on February 12, 2016 by The Political Hat

     Apparently freedom of speech is a tool of “White Supremacy”, and only by silencing incorrect speech can people become free… to blindly agree with hard Left racial bigotry.

     A literature student at Duke University penned a whiney diatribe about how free speech is LITERALLY killing oppressed Black individuals, and how the powerful evil White people doing these oppressive things are really just so fragile…

     And so, a fisking!

“As I write my first column, I am thinking a lot about speech. I am thinking about how an urgent and overdue conversation about racism—on our campus and across our country—has been derailed by a diversionary and duplicitous obsession with the First Amendment.”

     The importance of some of our most basic and fundamental liberties is not a “diversion”.  The 1st Amendment exists to protect all individuals from the machinations of the state; it is not a tool of oppression.

“I am thinking about how quickly the conversation has shifted from white supremacy to white fragility—and how this shift is itself an expression of white supremacy.”

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Quick Takes – State Rearing the Child: In Church, In School, In the Family

Posted on February 11, 2016 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: It’s the state’s child, not yours!

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     The U.K. has decided to crack down on extremism, but rather than admit that the threat to “British values” comes from a politically incorrect source, they’ve decided to go after… Christian churches:

“The British government is currently trying to root out extremism in the British education system following concerns that about that Islamists are indoctrinating children. In a bid to avoid appearing Islamophobic, however, the government is trying to extend anti-extremism measures to all groups that teaching children, including Christian groups.

“‘It’s profoundly insulting to suggest that churches might be radicalising children, because that’s not what Christians are.

“‘Christians are law-abiding, they support democracy and they’re taught to love their neighbour. In fact they’re much more likely to be victims of extremism.'”

     Remember, blame must be shared euqally, but praise only upon the politically correct.

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Posting will be light through the middle of the week.

The quickest and most accurate results of the New Hampshire can be found at the Desicion Desk HQ.

Here’s a little mood music:

 

Posted on February 7, 2016 by The Political Hat | Comments Off on Light Posting: Helping out the @DecisionDeskHQ with the #NHPrimary