News of the Week (July 26th, 2015)

Posted on July 26, 2015 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for July 26th, 2015


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Surrender Your Freedom or Go Homeless

Posted on July 25, 2015 by The Political Hat

     The totalitarian punishment of Oregon bakers who didn’t want to use their personal creative abilities to promote and endorse a same-sex ceremony continues to destroy religious liberty and free speech, by threatening the very home of the bakers:

“[T]he fascist state of Oregon  is ramping up its persecution campaign against Christian bakers who declined to bake a wedding cake for a same sex lesbian couple. Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, have been told that if they don’t pay the $135,000 awarded to the lesbian couple who sued them, a lien will be placed against their home next week.”

     They can not speak out against the state’s ruling and now may lose their home… all for not wanting to participate in a ceremony that they disagreed with… and wasn’t even legally binding at the time!  The left continues to lie about this being all about denying service to two people because they were homosexual, but then the Left needs to lie.

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Queering the Bank

Posted on July 24, 2015 by The Political Hat

     Not to be undone by Chase bank’s mandatory employee survey that demanded that employees admit if they were thoughtcriminals who aren’t “allies” of the “LGBT community,” JP Morgan is asking employees to publicly display an “ally” placard, thus outing “H8rz.”

“Employees are being told ‘to help create an environment for open and honest dialogue.’ The document notes descriptors such as ‘wife’ and ‘boyfriend’ are frowned upon, and ‘partner’ is preferred. Not referring to your wife as your wife ‘offers up the opportunity for more inclusive conversations.’

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“JP Morgan urges employees to ‘print and display your ally placard,’ which implies the recalcitrant will be noticed.

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“A surprise to JP Morgan clients may be its call for putting ‘your money where your mouth is! If you know of stores or companies that practice discrimination, don’t buy their products or patronize their locations.’ It is entirely possible that some of JP Morgan’s clients are on the LGBT Human Rights Campaigns list of gay-unfriendly companies.”

     It’s not just enough to be tolerant; one must celebrate and do so enthusiatically.

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Quick Takes – Reeducated Rape, Reeducated History, Reeducated Professors

Posted on July 23, 2015 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: Reeducation

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     The “yes means yes” insanity being imposed on college campuses “effectively defines every sexual encounter as rape unless you follow the law’s specific requirements” is now being taught as gospel truth to underaged children:

“Now [California state Senator] de Leon is moving on to round two: Teaching high school students the ‘correct’ way to have sex. Human nature is no longer the correct way. De Leon knows the correct way — and it involves a lot of questions.

“The California state senate just passed S.B. 695, which adds affirmative consent instruction to high school health courses. The bill passed by a vote of 39-0 and had bipartisan support.”

     It’s almost as if the Junior Anti-Sex League is about to be formed for real…

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The Gatekeepers of Free Speech

Posted on July 22, 2015 by The Political Hat

     We have ceded our free speech to private businesses that are controlled by Leftists.  They are the gatekeepers.  In the name of “free speech” we are allowing an elite few to destroy free speech, and more generally America.

     Reddit is but one example.  Google is going to rank results based on their idea of the “truth”.  Amazon, eBay, &c. can quash any reference to anything they want.

     You can be fired for stating politically incorrect ideas that are uttered outside of work, or even just expressing the support for people to say such utterances.

     America used to be about pluralism and tolerance.  Yes there was a common bond that embodied American Exceptionalism, but it wasn’t regimented or limited, but liberating.  We would put up with idiocy, and not go out of our way to punish people for wrongthink if it didn’t effect us.  This was necessary when you have people who disagree but want to live as civilized human beings.

     As Daniel Hannan noted:

You tolerate objectionable behavior up to the point of incitement.

You tolerate eccentricity up to the point of madness.

You tolerate offensiveness up to the point of harassment.

Toleration means you tolerate.  It means you tolerate what you find utterly appalling.

     Now, a select few rich Leftists can control and shape debate (via the Gramscian march).  Truth can be memoryholed to be replaced by “the truth”, and minority opinions can be made to seem like an overwhelming majority.

     The internet, once, was a way of side-stepping the gatekeepers of speech in the press, radio, or television.  Now, with the concession of communication handed over to a far Left elite, the gatekeepers have arisen yet again.

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An Opportunity to Reclaim “Husband & Wife”

Posted on July 21, 2015 by The Political Hat

     Democrat members of Congress want to eliminate the words “husband” and “wife” from Federal law, and replace those terms with  gender neutral ones.

     Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) has introduced the “Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act” and ironically declared that the “words in our laws have meaning” and that gendered terms perpetuate the until-recently idea that marriage was a union of a husband and wife.  Unsurprisingly about half of the bills sponsors are from California, which is purging the terms “mother” and “father” for its lawbooks.

     This isn’t providing “equality”, but an Orwellian attempt to destroy an institution sub rosa by keeping the word as a Humpty Dumpty plaything:

“Marriage is not just a religious institution. It is a fundamental building block of our society.

“The consequence of changing definitions can’t be ignored. Many bad laws come into being to take care of a special situation and then are enforced in a way never intended or envisioned by the writers.

“Remember, the unintended consequences not the intended consequences are the problem. Allowing naked men to parade around a girls locker room because they claim to be transgender is not the intent of laws trying to protect gay students from the very real bullying they experience, but it is an inexcusable, unintended consequence. –that actually happened!”

     However, severing “husband” and “wife” from the modern definition of “marriage” is actually a good thing.

     Marriage used to be the union of a husband and a wife in order to provide a stable environment for children in a family.

     Now “marriage” is about using the government to force others to celebrate the “love” of two people (but not all two people).

     Now, with the words “husband” and “wife” separated from this new definition of “marriage”, it can be reclaimed and be re-associated with what the institution really is.

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Obama’s Fundamental Transformation of Housing

Posted on July 20, 2015 by The Political Hat

     The Obama administration has finally released the “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule” (AFFH).  In effect, it gives the Obama administration the power to fundamentally transform American neighborhoods in the visage of a delusional Progressive utopia.

“AFFH gives the federal government a lever to re-engineer nearly every American neighborhood — imposing a preferred racial and ethnic composition, densifying housing, transportation, and business development in suburb and city alike, and weakening or casting aside the authority of local governments over core responsibilities, from zoning to transportation to education. Not only the policy but the political implications are immense — at the presidential, congressional, state, and local levels.

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“Fundamentally, AFFH is an attempt to achieve economic integration. Race and ethnicity are being used as proxies for class, since these are the only hooks for social engineering provided by the Fair Housing Act of 1968.”

     It makes the assumption that any divergence from proportional equality is due to racism, and thus requiring state and local governments to bow down to the Obama administration.

“The new rule takes this a step further and requires cities across the country to scrutinize their housing patterns for racial bias and report the results every three to five years. Communities would also have to set and track goals to further reduce segregation.”

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News of the Week (July 19th, 2015)

Posted on July 19, 2015 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for July 19th, 2015


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It’s Still Bestiality Even If You Think You Are A Deer

Posted on July 18, 2015 by The Political Hat

     If you want to engage in sexual relations with a deer, you are committing bestiality, even if you think you are “deerkin”.  Claiming to be a “deerkin”, though might allow you to get away with claiming insanity…

     The “deerkin” does specify if they are male or female, or whether they fancy bucks or does.  It is a question that one can but hope will never be answered.

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Planned Parenthood: Genocide for Fun and Profit

Posted on July 17, 2015 by The Political Hat

     Planned Parenthood, which was founded by genocidal eugenicist Margaret Sanger to eliminate inferior races and ethnicities, doesn’t just offer abortions for s**ts & giggles, but actually sells aborted baby parts:

“[ Dr. Deborah] Nucatola [, PPFA Senior Director of Medical Services,] oversees the abortion practices of all PPFA clinics, trains abortion doctors and performs abortions herself at a clinic in Los Angeles up to 24 weeks. While eating a salad in the video, she describes how she has a ‘huddle’ at the beginning of each day to figure out which scheduled abortions are most likely to yield the body parts needed for buyers, and then plan accordingly.

“‘For example, I had 8 cases yesterday,’ she says. ‘And I knew exactly what we needed, and I kinda looked at the list and I said, alright, this 17-weeker has 8 lams, and this one — So I knew which were the cases that were probably more likely to yield what we needed, and I made my decisions according to that too.’

“When doctors are under ‘ultrasound guidance,’ Nucatola says they sometimes manipulate the position of the unborn baby so that the head comes out last, which is an illegal procedure considered a partial-birth abortion. The parts are then sold for anywhere between $30 and $100, she says.”

     Sadly, this isn’t a violation of the letter of the law:

“The federal law in question was written by pro-abortion former Congressman Henry Waxman, who was one of Planned Parenthood’s top lieutenants while he served in Congress from his California-based Congressional district. In fact, the law in question was enacted over pro-life opposition because it is so substantially flawed that it’s akin to saying Obamacare prohibits abortion funding via its sham ‘ban’ that is a de facto allowance of abortion funding with federal dollars.

“The Waxman-authored law explicitly allows ‘reasonable payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue.’  This, the law merely ‘prohibits’  selling fetal tissue in a definition that is so narrow that the exposed Planned Parenthood practices are fully legal under the letter of it in a manner that Planned Parenthood’s high priced attorneys have been able to exploit.”

     In other words, just as long as they use the correct wording, it suddenly isn’t a crime, even though the act is the same.

     This is like banning prostitution, but allowing prostitutes to “donate” their services, and be reimbursed for “reasonable costs”.

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