Obamacare Comes to Nevada

Posted on October 16, 2013 by The Political Hat

     If you live in Nevada and consider enough contraceptives to sleep with the entire population of Liechtenstein (twice) the paragon of healthcare, then congratulations!

     However, if you are not happy at having to pay higher premiums for higher deductibles and even worse service, then on behalf of Nevada, your humble author would like to apologize for the re-election of Searchlight’s Dim Bulb, Harry Reid.

Death, Rx

     Nevadans, just like in other states, are suffering:

“For instance, a single, 25-year-old Nevadan would need to pay a monthly premium of at least $184 to be ACA-compliant.  In the pre-ACA world, a comparable plan would have been available for around $83.  A new analysis from the American Action Forum, led by former Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, shows that all 50 states and the District of Columbia experienced rate increases due to the ACA, with 44 states seeing the lowest-priced coverage more than double in cost.  Nationwide, pre-ACA premiums averaged $62 per month, but post-ACA premiums average $187.08 per month.

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Obama’s War on Privacy

Posted on October 15, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The rabid Left’s claim of wanting to protect the “right to privacy” has already demonstrated itself to be a lie. Obama’s minions are now but proving just how big a lie that is.

Poster by Jorge Arrieta

     The IRS and the White House exchanged confidential taxpayer information and did so over personal e-mail accounts in an attempt to avoid being caught:

“Top Internal Revenue Service Obamacare official Sarah Hall Ingram discussed confidential taxpayer information with senior Obama White House officials, according to 2012 emails obtained by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and provided to The Daily Caller.

“Lois Lerner, then head of the IRS Tax Exempt Organizations division, also received an email alongside White House officials that contained confidential information.”

     Good thing the IRS isn’t involved in Obamacare… oh,wait… they totally are!

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A Stopped Clock in California

Posted on October 15, 2013 by The Political Hat

     With California hurtling down the path to ruin, Gomorrah, and a New Feudalism due to being under the deathgrip of radical Leftists with 2/3 majority in the legislature, as well as the governorship of Gov. Moonbeam himself, one would expect nothing but horrible legislation.

     Indeed, much horrible legislation has been passed and signed into law.  However, much like a stopped clock, Gov. Moonbeam gets it right and vetoes the extreme idiocy of the California Grand Soviet Legislature.

     Moonbeam vetoed the proposed law that would have seated non-citizens on juries.  Even though he signed bills allowing illegal aliens to not only vote but to practice law, he is still being criticized like the Bolsheviks criticized the Mensheviks:

“The sponsor of the jury bill, Democratic Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, expressed dismay at the veto, likening rules disqualifying permanent residents from jury service to long-discarded laws that kept black people and women from serving.”

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Obama Administration Kicking Sand In Our Face

Posted on October 14, 2013 by The Political Hat

     It has been previously noted that the Obama Administration is going out of the way to make people suffer during the government shutdown, even to the point of wasting time and money to do it.

     They have reached a new low: A sandcastle contest in San Fransisco was shutdown, despite the fact that the beach “normally has no lifeguards, no rangers, is permanently open to the public, and requires no funds for day-to-day operations”

     Further, there would be punishments meted out if they dared to build sandcastles anyway:

“‘We were told that we could be fined for trespassing and that our permit was no longer valid,’ the letter [that notified participants of the shutdown] said. ‘We were also told that our event could be shut down by park rangers or by San Francisco police.'”

     Under Obama’s orders, the Federal government is basically threatening to kick down children’s sandcastles.  How sad and pathetic that they have become the stereotypical beach bully.

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Schools Indoctrinating Kids to Eviscerate the Bill of Rights

Posted on October 14, 2013 by The Political Hat

     It has been said before, but it bears repeating: The Progressive Left are using their deathgrip on public education to brainwash children to due the bidding of, and being the cannon fodder for, the anti-freedom Left.   They have been caught repeatedly lying about the 2nd Amendment, and misrepresenting the Bill of Rights as if it were a tool of oppression.

     Now their child abuse has become even more blatant: A 6th grade class was given an assignment that declared that it has been “determined that it is outdated and may not remain in its current form any longer.”

     The students are then tasked with having to “prioritize, revise, prune two and add two amendments to The Bill of Rights.”

     The hatred of the Progressive Left against the Constitution is palpable.  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg touts the same tired Progressive clichés about how the Constitution is was effectively flawed since it was written by White males, and how she favors the monstrosity that is the South African Constitution, going so far as to outright declare; ” I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the Constitution of South Africa,”

     Now, we are seeing children indoctrinated with her putrid views.  They will know no better, and will happily support the Progressive evisceration of our fundamental liberties and the Constitution that protects it.

     The worksheets in question:

Via Digital Journal

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The Secular Miracle of the English-speaking Peoples

Posted on October 13, 2013 by The Political Hat

     There is something unique, something wonderful, about our civic heritage which defines us not by geography, or by race or ethnicity.  Yet again, MEP Daniel Hannon eloquently points out one of the major roots of this shared value, chief among which is the rule of law and the law of the land — the idea that everyone, is bound by the law and must be subject to it.  This unique aspect is embodies in the unique genius of the Magna Carta.

     Hannon spoke at the Magna Carta memorial at Runnymede:

     Do not let that great and wonderful inheritance be condemned to the lost annals of history!

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News of the Week (October 13th, 2013)

Posted on October 13, 2013 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for October 13th, 2013


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Experto Crede: The Science is Settled

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Guest Poster

     The following guest post was received from the well known ancient scientist Claudius Ptolemy via Michel de Nostredame’s scrying bowl.

Pictured: Eminent Scientist Claudius Ptolomy

I have been informed, by the local haruspex that a periodically written compendium of scientific knowledge called “Popular Science” will no longer allow ignorant whelps to comment on its august pronunciations.

I am fully in support of this!

To allow valuable a valuable series of tubes that are somehow involved in disseminating knowledge to be clogged by such doubters of science.  Some type of “climate change” is happening in the future and the science is apparently settled.

Why, allowing such ridiculous comments would be like allowing fools to suggest that the Earth revolves around the Sun!  In both cases, the science is settled.

Perhaps small improvements can be made by adding epicycles here or there, but the basic facts are absolute and unquestionable.

As such, I applaud this “Popular Science” for standing up against those who would doubt them.

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A Tale of Two Families

Posted on October 12, 2013 by The Political Hat

     As a society, we have gone from upholding traditional values where a family with both a mother and a father were held as an ideal, to one where that family must be prohibited while “diverse families” are held up as paragons.

     Nothing better illustrated this point than the comparison of two families.

     In the first case, a lesbian couple adopted a boy that they are trying to turn into a girl.  They swear that they have nothing to do with this and it was all the choice of a toddler:

“The mothers say that one of the first things Thomas told them when he learned sign language aged three – because of a speech impediment – was, ‘I am a girl’.

“At age seven, after threatening genital mutilation on himself, psychiatrists diagnosed Thomas with gender identity disorder. By the age of eight, he began transitioning.”

     That the first words of this boy were allegedly “I am a girl” makes the lesbian couple “doth protest too much.”  And declaring that he will mutilate his genitals is not the sign of enlightenment, but of serious psychological problems.

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The Vanguard Against Duo-Normative Oppression

Posted on October 11, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Remember back when, if a supporter of traditional marriage brought up the point that if we allow same-sex marriage we’ll eventually have polygamy or incestuous marriages, the same-sex marriage supporters declared those things to be moral evil and traditional marriage supporters were bigots for even suggesting gay couples were like those sickos?

     Looks like the traditional marriage supporters will likely be proven right, and the same-sex marriage supporters be proven liars:  California has now legalized having multiple parents.  Though this bill “does not apply to stepparents, grandparents, girlfriends or caretakers” (yet), it normalizes a polyamorous family structure.

     While some on the Left may try to dismiss this as simply for “rare” occasions when having only two parents would “harm” the child, it was the establishment of domestic partnerships and adoptions by same-sex couples that normalized families with same-sex parents/legal guardians.  It was this normalization which was used as justification for overturning Caliofornia’s Prop. 8.

     Is it really so crazy, at this point, that such recognition won’t be extended between blood relations?  Is it really ridiculous to ponder what redefinition will come next?

     Soon, “duo-normative” values will be deemed “oppressive” and those who believe marriage is only between two consenting persons will be declared “H8ers.”

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