Random Thoughts for May,
2013
Robert A. Hall
The Boston Marathon Bombings are pretty much an average day
in Israel Iraq
We are now told that the Boston Marathon Bombers were
“alienated.” Didn’t you know that the Left would make it society’s fault? No
personal responsibility for anything. Except, of course, George Bush for
everything bad that’s happened under Obama.
This year is the 10th birthday of the Income Tax.
I hope you did something nice for it to celebrate.
Because a group puts “conservative” or “progressive” in it’s
name and asks you for money does not mean they are doing much for the things
you support. Let the donor beware.
Importing guns: Bad. Importing magazines: Bad. Importing
ammo: Bad. Importing terrorists: Good multiculturalism.
Since they didn’t initially read Miranda Rights to the
second Boston Bomber, I hope he doesn’t join Obama pal Bill Ayers as a
terrorist who go away with it.
I wonder if any of the babies who had their spines severed
or who wound up in the toilet at Gosnell’s
Abortion Shop of Horrors would have looked like Barack Obama’s son, if allowed
to live?
Do you think it’s racist that the media is a thousand times
more interested in the white kids murdered in Newtown
by Adam Lanza than the black babies murdered in Philadelphia
Can’t we launch a cyber attack on the jihadist Inspire website to take down their
pressure cooker bomb making instructions? How many others wanting to slaughter
the innocent for Allah have looked it up since Boston
When we still have money to give $500M to the Palestinians,
fighter jets to the Muslim Brotherhood to kill Jews with and send the First
Daughters on two back-to-back Spring Break trips with all their guards and
attendants, it’s hard for me to believe that the sequester is a problem.
I recommend that you don’t buy a pressure cooker as a
wedding gift in the near future. Too many questions might be asked.
Is it just me, or was Obama a lot more angry about the
defeat of a symbolic gun control bill everyone admits wouldn’t stop the next Newtown than he was over the murder of four Americans in Benghazi
I fear the country is dying, and I think I’ve gone through
Kubler-Ross’s five stages of dying. The first was Denial: The United States is to strong, it will weather the storm.
Then Anger: Can’t the progressives
see what debt and huge government always does to prosperity and freedom? Then Bargaining: If we can elect Mitt Romney
and a Republican Senate, we can postpone the Collapse of the Republic. Then Depression: November 7. And, finally, I
seem to be at Acceptance: I watch
with interest and enjoy life as I can, aware that there is little more I can
do. Nothing lasts forever, not me, not you and not the American Republic
If I understand the liberal position on guns, we can prevent
tragedies like the one in Newtown , Connecticut by passing a national ban on assault rifles
like the state ban already in effect in Connecticut
We complain that far too many liberals and progressives
assume they are so right that anyone who disagrees with them is stupid, evil or
both, just because we have a different world view based on different education
and experiences. There are lots of examples. But conservatives need to avoid
the same behavior. Personal attacks and use of inflammatory terms like
“Libtard,” don’t help the debate, and turn off those in the middle or in
rational left who we want to persuade.
There’s a car ad that claims their vehicles are
“intelligently priced.” If you are intelligent, and you are selling something,
isn’t the intelligent price “every penny the market will bear.” Don’t we all
try to maximize the return we get, whether selling goods, services or our
labor?
There’s another car ad when the guy says the dealer
“triaged” his car. You mean, they decide not to work on some cars because they
will survive without it, and not to work on some because they are going to die
anyway? Or are they just stupid and don’t know what triage means?
I heard there’s a new “Rent a Mourner” service in Britain
G-Mail
has changed their compose and response features to make them much harder to use
and more confusing, so my e-mail will be screwed up while I try to cope with
the latest “improvement.” How can I describe what they did? “Sucks” seems too
tame. Heaven save me from computer folks improving programs I use regularly
which work just fine as they are.
Conservatives believe that human
rights come from God. Liberals believe that they come from the State, thus the
State can change them at will, or invent new ones such as that folks who
support the party that controls the state have a right to a livelihood from the
work of those who do not.
The delusion with the Great Leader by the sycophants never
takes place until it's too late to avoid the disaster they enabled. Sometimes
not them. See Operation Valkyrie
If I get to heaven, I expect to see almost all of the dogs
I've known, but not all people I've known.
I think backseat drivers are just frustrated middle managers
denied the chance to micromanage at work.
They say time heals all wounds. But eventually, it kills all
things. The years are seldom kind.
I told my wife I wouldn't mind all the time if she spends in
the bathroom, if she looked better when she came out...But since she couldn't
possibly look any better, it was a waste….
I don’t care what you think, Bubba. Your drug dealer is NOT
your friend.
Many people in this world think they are so special the low of
averages doesn’t apply to them, so they smoke, drink too much, do drugs and
engage in risky sex and other behaviors. They are fun to play poker with,
however.
I have discovered that worrying about things I can’t change
doesn’t change anything. But I still do it.
The claim is that deporting illegal aliens hurts their
innocent kids. Well, so does putting parents who break other laws in jail. Do all
parents thus get a free pass on crime?
If there’s anything worse than Spam, it’s Spam from a “no
reply” e-mail address, so you cannot tell them your thoughts.
People must choose their candidate based on which ones put
up the most yard signs, or at least so the candidates seem to think. I used a
few in my first campaign, none thereafter, preferring car signs, bumper
stickers and especially ads telling people where I stood on issues.
When I retire, I’m going to set my alarm for 6:00 am every
morning, just like now, so I can turn it off, say “the hell with it,” and go
back to sleep.
I think if you compiled the statistics, they would show that
ten times as many black folks have been murdered in recent years by black thugs
than were murdered by white racists in an equivalent number of years of the
terrible Jim Crow era. But since they are killed by other black people, there
is no political advantage to race baiters and Democrat politicians to talk
about it. Except, of course, to blame loose gun laws in area with much lower
murder rates.
I read that Houston has about
the same population as Chicago, same income level, a larger minority population
(though more Hispanics and fewer blacks) but only half the gun murders of Chicago Houston has concealed carry, while Chicago
Bitter poster going around the net: “America
If I understand Progressive thought, if North Korea or Iran
Bling is a modern way to say "vulgar."
I tend to think the high pressure car salesmen, stock
brokers and preachers don't really believe in their product.
Many a man has been led into hell by the smile of an angel.
Women who wear spike heels, but don't know how to walk in
them, look silly, not sexy.
Saving the world is like eating Chinese food. An hour later,
it needs saving again.
Progressive (n): Slow learner
In the phonetic alphabet used by the military, my initials
are “Romeo Hotel.” You may think this
is a coincidence.
A Progressive is always willing to make the poor suffer a
lot if he can make the rich suffer a little as part of the deal. He calls it
“fairness.”
Democrats, I read, have changed from wanting to ban “assault
weapons” to wanting to ban “combat style” weapons. I assume this includes the
Austrian Jager musket over my fireplace, since it was made for combat as a
flintlock probably about 1780, converted to cap and ball I’d guess around 1830.
While I’ve never had powder and ball for it, it would made a hell of a club.
And since more folks are murdered with hammers than assault (or combat style)
rifles, that is not to be sneered at.
Since “colored people” are now called, with perfect PC,
“people of color,” maybe we start calling “illegal immigrants” “immigrants who
are here illegally.”
If “illegal aliens” are now “undocumented workers” (or is it
“free range Democrats”?), are “tax cheats” now “non-complying citizens”?
There was a time when Democrats, like President Grover
Cleveland, were for free trade because tariffs hurt the poor and working
classes with higher prices. But no more. The unions took control. They want
higher prices and to keep the poor out of their jobs. Democrats get their votes
by being anti-free trade, and the votes of the poor through welfare, food
stamps and Obama Phones. But it’s coming to an end, as the money is running
out, and there aren’t enough “rich” folks to gouge to keep the Ponzi scheme
afloat for much longer.
Never mind the Chinese Zodiac. In Washington
Through history, the barbarians at the gates always thought
it wasn’t fair that you had wealth, women and food they didn’t, and thus they
were entitled to take them if they could.
Jane Fonda has told veterans boycotting her latest movie to
“get a life.” I’ve got one, thank you. Her NVA friends missed.
Letter to the editor: “I’ve been asking around, and I hear
at least a third of the homes in our town are protected by guns. Worse, they
won’t say which ones, meaning criminals who break in have to take a huge risk.”
If gun bans pass, I won’t own an “illegal gun.” I’ll have an
“undocumented self-defense device.”
Once all those Republican Senators and Representatives who
didn’t vote the way I wanted 100% of the time, known as RINOs, get defeated by
liberal Democrats, things will be much better in America
With all the hype over Bitcoins, I’ve decided to sell
Bobcoins. You send me $5 and I’ll e-mail you a certificate for, say, 100. Or for
more if you beg.
When I was a child, I did childish things. This week, I’ll
do better…
How to tell if you are feeble minded: you text while
driving.
If God doesn’t have a sense of humor, I’m in serious
trouble. But looking at the world, he must.
Most political campaigns slogans should be: “I’m not as bad
as the other guy.”
Most Democrats and too many Republicans take the view of why
reform Social Security and Medicare, and piss off the geezers? The programs
won’t collapse until after we are retired, when they will be someone else’s
problem, and we won’t need them—we’re in the political one percent!
Before you criticize someone as a RINO, look at the
district. When I was a state senator, I represented a 4-1 democrat district,
which before me was last won by a Republican in 1938—in a disputed close
election. If I had been seen as an uncompromising Republican, always voting the
party line, I’d have been replaced by an uncompromising Democrat who always
voted the leftist party line and thus always cruised to reelection (that I
think is how the seat is held today.) In many cases, given the make up of the
state or the district, you aren’t going to replace that “RINO” with a more
conservative Republican. If you get a conservative in the primary, you get a
liberal in the election, to the benefit of Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi and the
detriment of conservative causes. The RINOs vote Republican to organize, so if
the GOP with RINOs has a majority, conservatives are in control of most
committees.
Just turned 67 and I'm still as good looking as I ever was.
Which is, not very...
Living in the past is much nicer than living in the present,
because we can chose those good parts of the past and ignore the others.
My first real job at 16 was as a stock and delivery boy in a
small food and butcher shop, Moffett’s in Collingswood ,
NJ
I try not to complain about my pulmonary fibrosis. Everyone
is fighting a hard battle. And in the Marines, I learned that if you want
sympathy, it’s in the dictionary between “shit” and “syphilis.”
From everything that’s been going on, it’s now clear we need
a law making it illegal for anyone who illegally owns a gun to use it. That
should do it.
One of my favorite 50s songs, beloved by my grandmother, is Que Sera, Sera. My version goes, “When I
was just a little boy, I asked my mother, what will I be? Will I be handsome,
will I be rich? She told me tenderly, not a chance in hell, kid.”
The argument they make is that "if we can save just one
innocent life" we must restrict the rights of millions of gun owners who
don't break the law. So, if "we could save just one innocent life"
shouldn’t we restrict millions of innocent Muslims from immigrating or visiting
the US
In 1940, Britain America
You can’t compromise with Progressives. Say you have baked a
pie. They demand part of it in "fairness," so in a spirit of
compromise and bipartisanship, you give them half. Tomorrow morning, they will
be back demanding another slice. This is why the NRA makes no concessions on even
the most reasonable restriction on guns. They know it won't end—they will
always be back for another slice.
They keep saying “If you see something, say something.” Of
course, you will likely be vilified by the media as a racist (what race are
Muslims?) Islamophobe, lose your job and be shunned by all right thinking
people if you do. Which is why those who heard Maj. Nidal Hasan’s inflammatory
remarks kept quiet. A charge of Islamophobia from a Muslim in the military is a
career ender. So tough, but those 13 people had to die.
In addition to the Boston Islamic Terrorist Bombing and the
Texas Fertilizer Plant Disaster, I learned that evil week that it was not good
to turn on the weather channel and find them broadcasting a few blocks from
where you live.
The War on Terror, the Long War, the War against Islamic
Jihadism or whatever you want to call it will end only when the millions of
Muslims who believe in a fundamental Wahhabist interpretation of the Qur’an are
dead, and the millions of “moderate Muslims” left reject the Qur’an's call to
impose Islam and strict Sharia law on everyone. Even if they killed or forced
the conversion to Islam every infidel, they would go on killing fellow Muslims
who didn’t believe exactly as they did. Shorter version: This war will never
end.
There is no clearer expression of Progressive philosophy
than this: Punish success, reward failure, buy votes, live well off the
government interventions.
I notice that when I can’t sleep in the middle of the night,
I’m always sleeping fine when the alarm goes off at five or six am.
PACs sure have changed politics. When I was a state senator
in the 1970s, I only recall getting campaign contributions from two PACs: The
Gun Owners Action League and the GE PAC. GE had a large plant in my district. I
always told them how I saved their plant by using a coffee cup to put out a
small fire in a thermal office machine when I was a security guard there while in
college, the year before I was first elected. I think the contributions were
$100 or less, if memory serves.
My wife thinks if one of my handkerchiefs or undershirts has
a hole, she should discard it. Constant struggle to keep her from disposing of
items still serviceable.
My “bucket list” is pretty much down to some writing I’d
like to get done and a huge pile of history, political and economic books I’d
like to get read. And I’d like to see the granddaughter, now 12, into college.
But that may be out of reach.
Getting a tattoo is like putting on your favorite piece of
clothing and wearing it for the rest of your life, 24/7.
I’m old enough to still think of Velcro as cheating.
There are “get it done now” people and “I’ll do it later”
people. Guess which group is more successful in life?
*****
For a free PDF of the book, e-mail him at
tartanmarine(at)gmail.com.
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