Proof Of The Decline Of Mankind?

Posted on December 1, 2012 by The Political Hat

     Geneticist Gerald Crabtree has recently made waves by forwarding the hypothesis that human intelligence “peaked thousands of years ago and we’ve been on an intellectual and emotional decline ever since.”  To whit:

     “His argument is based on the fact that for more than 99 per cent of human evolutionary history, we have lived as hunter-gatherer communities surviving on our wits, leading to big-brained humans. Since the invention of agriculture and cities, however, natural selection on our intellect has effective stopped and mutations have accumulated in the critical ‘intelligence’ genes.”

     Sadly, there appear to be proof of mankinds devolution.  Ancient musical tablature was uncovered in Ugarit, Syria from over 3400 years ago.  This music is still playable today, and is quite beautiful.  “Hurrian Hymn № 6” can be heard below:

     In contrast, we spiffy modern humans have to put up with this Continue reading →

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British Healthcare Policy: Killing Babies Slowly & Painfully

Posted on November 29, 2012 by The Political Hat

     The recent case out of the U.K. of a baby “to die like an abandoned animal” is not an isolated case.  As has been noted previously, socialized medicine often leads to the “weak” being removed from the population.  Sometimes it is based on some deluded idea of racial supremacy or eugenics, but the most pernicious is when a child’s life is considered less than zero simply it would tax the stretched and already heavily rationed socialized healthcare system.

     This has become even more clear with the revelation that it is the policy of the U.K.’s National Health Service to let “weak” babies die a prolonged and horrible death.  Cash incentives to doctors and hospitals may have been given to put ill babies on the “Liverpool Care Pathway,” which is nothing more than a sick and twisted euphemism for involuntary passive euthanasia that involved removal of all care, food, and water, as revealed in the British Medical Journal.

     Now, it has been revealed by the U.K.’s Daily Mail just how painful and inhuman this “care pathway” is.  Below is a letter from the Daily Mail.  It is being quoted as it appeared on the Mail Online because unless we sear this horror upon our souls as the horrors of the NAZI death camps were seared upon the liberators of those camps. Continue reading →

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The Biggest Victims Of Socialized Healthcare Are Babies

Posted on November 28, 2012 by The Political Hat

UPDATED to include reference to the involuntary passive euthenasia of innocent babies revealed by the Daily Mail.

     A recent firestorm has erupted over a baby, in the care of the U.K.’s National Health Service, was left “to die like an abandoned animal.”  The doctors and nurses repeated exclaimed that the child was fine and treated the child’s mother as a nuisance, with one doctor even ” ‘glared’ and ‘barked’ at her, giving her a look of ‘utter contempt’.”

Death, Rx     Whether is was incompetence or sheer indifference, this case goes far beyond simple medical malpractice.  Emergency treatments that were ordered took up to 22 hours to be implemented.  The obvious need the child had for real medical care was obvious:

A passing member of the public, who had been visiting another child, went up to Mrs Stevenson and told her: ‘Your child cannot breathe.’ But at 11am, a cardiology registrar recorded Hayley as ‘stable’. Paula says: ‘We were very upset that a complete stranger could see that Hayley was in difficulty but the medical professionals merely said that she was fine.'”

     The mother badgered and did everything she could to save her child even going so far as to ” bribe a nurse with £100 shopping voucher to get them to care for her daughter better.”  Alas, the option of quality and affordable healthcare has been swept aside by the NHS, which ironically was meant to provide quality and affordable healthcare. Sadly, it is already the policy of the U.K.’s NHS to kill babies via involuntary passive euthanasia that involved removal of all care, food, and even water. That the doctors and nurses in this case were effectively doing the same against the express wished of the child’s mother is beyond disturbing. Continue reading →

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Parenthood To Become Illegal For Thoughtcriminals?

Posted on November 27, 2012 by The Political Hat

     The “right” to raise children has been revoked for a British couple because of thoughtcrimes.  The couple are foster parents who have looked after about a dozen foster children, and have been exemplary parents by any account.

     However, in the eyes of some, they are evil thought criminals who are racist and believe in politically incorrect ideas.  What are their evil thought crimes and their evil ideology? They happen to be former Labour party members who have joined the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which has grown to become the U.K.’s 3rd most popular party in many polls — hardly a radical or fringe party.

     The couple, who refuse to be named to protect all the children they have fostered, appear to be upstanding citizens who have shown nothing but love and care for their foster children, including those who were of an ethnic minority Continue reading →

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Misogyny Of The Left

Posted on November 26, 2012 by The Political Hat

     It has long been the trope of radical Feminists that women had to be able to stand on their own and be free to follow whatever life-path they wanted, without needing to rely on men or “The Patriarchy™.”

     This drive to overthrow “The Patriarchy™,” even went to far as to banish the root “-man” from terms such as “chairman” and replace it with the more clunky “chairperson” or simply “chair.”  This is despite “man” originally meaning just a person, with a woman being a “wifman” and a male being a “wer” or “wæpman/wæpnedman.”

Despite the stated desires to abolish “andro-normative” oppression, Feminists have become what they claim to most hate: Weak little things that need a man, or patriarchic substitute, to protect them.

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Pictured: The Left's view of "womyn"

     The first crack in the oh-so-false façade was seen during the Clinton Presidency.  Clinton was accused of sexual harassment and even rape.  Yet, despite this, the radical Feminists did not attack or even question Clinton; they went after his female accusers.  The radical Feminists did not care about women, they only cared about attaining a few political goals, chief among these being extreme abortion practices. Continue reading →

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American Energy Independence via The 22nd Amernment

Posted on November 24, 2012 by The Political Hat

     A recent study is suggesting that the United States may become energy independent within a couple of decades.  This would be due, to a large degree, on improvements on drilling technology such as horizontal drilling and “fracking” of shale.  The United State is on the path to not only be self-sufficient in oil, but even a net exporter of liquefied natural gas.  The job-creating potential of oil and gas extraction has been shown in North Dakota, and may help lift poverty stricken areas from their morass.

     This is a turnaround from the 1970’s when America was threatened by the specter of “peak oil” and a stranglehold by OPEC.  But this turnaround is contingent on companies, large oil companies and small-time wildcat drillers alike, being allowed to harness this cheap and abundant energy.  Under the presidency of Barack Obama, this presumption is doubtful.  Obama has not only subsidized crony “Green energy” companies, but has been attacking drilling in the United States.

     Thankfully, this absurd policy will not last forever.  No matter how popular Obama is with his cult of personality, he is still limited to a total of two terms thanks to the 22nd amendment Continue reading →

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Happy Thanksgiving for 2012!

Posted on November 22, 2012 by The Political Hat

     Aside from turkey induced comas and football, Thanksgiving is a time to reflect and account for all the things we can be thankful of.

     It is also a time to reflect on how Thanksgiving came from a failed socialist experiment, and the turn towards liberty and property as the solution for prosperity.  The Pilgrims began their colony from scratch and with ideological purity, as a collectivist commune:

“That’s how it is now, and that’s how it was in 1620. The charter of the Plymouth Colony reflected the most up-to-date economic, philosophical and religious thinking of the early 17th century. Plato was in vogue then, and Plato believed in central planning by intellectuals in the context of communal property, centralized state education, state centralized cultural offerings and communal family structure. For Plato, it literally did take a village to raise a child. This collectivist impulse reflected itself in various heretical offshoots of Protestant Christianity with names like The True Levelers, and the Diggers, mass movements of people who believed that property and income distinctions should be eliminated, that the wealthy should have their property expropriated and given to what we now call the 99%. This kind of thinking was rife in the 1600s and is perhaps why the Pilgrim settlers settled for a charter which did not create a private property system.”

     After 2½ years of failure, our forefathers (be they by blood or adoption) turned away from the failure of failed philosophical musings, and towards private property and the free market Continue reading →

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Even Without An Eligible Candidate on the Ballot, Democrats Still Win

Posted on November 20, 2012 by The Political Hat

     The Democrats in Nevada are succeeding in winning a state Assembly race, even though there was no legitimate Democrat on the ballot.

     In the 9th Assembly district, Democrat Andrew Martin defeated Republican C. Kelly Hurst.  However, Martin had been ruled ineligible to run for the seat due to the fact that he didn’t live in the district.  Hurst proved this by using a private investigator to prove in a court of law that Martin lived elsewhere and generally avoided his purported residence within the district.

     At best, Martin would be deemed ineligible by the Democrat controlled state Assembly, and would then be replaced by a Democrat appointed by the Clark County Commission, which is in the total control of Democrats.  Thus, even though there was no Democrat legitimately on the ballot, the Democrats still picked up the Assembly seat.

     To make matters worse, there has not been a serious inkling of Martin having to face the legal consequences of illegally filing as a resident of the district.  Such prosecutions have happened before, with Republicans such as Janet Moncrief (Las Vegas city councilwoman) and Lynette Boggs-McDonald (Clark County commissioner).

     When one party can steal an election without even having a legal candidate on the ballot, our Republic is in even more dire straights then perhaps most realized.

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Bakers Union Purposefully Threw Members Under The Bus To Punish The “1%”

Posted on November 19, 2012 by The Political Hat

     The demise of Hostess at the hands of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union was not just the outcome of an economic staring contest gone wrong.

     The contract they were protesting was imposed on Hostess by the courts.  Despite the “evil” 1% pouring money into Hostess in an attempt to save the business, which if they had be successful would have resulted in both the owners and the workers benefiting, Hostess was on the verge of collapse.

     The strike led the workers from the position of earning only 68% of what they had been, to the position of earning 0% of what they had been.  The bakers’ union made it clear that it was worth it to sacrifice thousands of workers, including those outside the bakers’ union in order punish the “evil 1%.”  The union knew that a strike would lead to the workers losing their job.  Even the Teamsters urged the bakers’ union to stop the strike, even going so far as to suggest a “secret ballot,” which the Teamsters themselves have been fighting against.

     The bakers’ union declared a loss of thousands of their members jobs to be a “victory” Continue reading →

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Obamandias

Posted on November 15, 2012 by The Political Hat

     Now that Obama has won reelection, he doesn’t need to bother with pretending to care about the deficit, the military, or even America.  With his cult of personality triumphant a second time, this modern-day Pharaoh does not seem content to engage the people to just working on those jobless “shovel ready jobs.”

     Not just content with driving the United States forward off a fiscal cliff, Obama is set to plague the few successful small businesses left with a torrent of regulations.  Undoubtedly, the community-agitator in chief will blame those he crushes for all the layoffs caused by Obamanomics and his precious Obamacare

     Perhaps Obama should consider these words of wisdom from the 10 Commandments Continue reading →

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