Random Thoughts for December,
2013
Robert A. Hall
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The people who are most afraid of dying are those who never
learned how to live.
If Obama says, "If you like your religion, you can keep
it," we're in big trouble. Okay, bigger trouble.
I think the GOP will win big in 2014 and 2016--but I think
it's too late to matter. No one would dare do what needs to be done to prevent
the collapse.
Twenty years from now, there may be an entity in North America
called "The United States," but I don't think my grandfather would
recognize it as America .
If something is not economically viable, it cannot be made
so by pouring tax dollars on it.
Some people are born to rise above their circumstances,
others are born to be cesspool divers no matter what you do for them.
Hear that sound? It's Jackbooted Progressives coming to
coerce you to do what they have
decided is in your best interests. Might be, might not--but you can be sure
their policies provide for their best
interests.
Since 1932, with every Democrat administration, the
percentage of people employed by the government grows massively. Under
Republicans, it stays flat or grows a little, never retreats. So, eventually,
100% of people will be employed by the government or on government assistance.
Except the collapse will happen first.
Liberals are happy to pass legislation that helps thousands
and hurts millions of people, as long as the thousands know why they were
helped and the millions can't figure out what caused their suffering.
Maybe the Redskins should move from DC to another city, if
the politicians there don't like them. Say, how about renaming them "The
Washington Code Talkers" after the Native Americans who serve Corps and
country so well in WWII?
When I was younger, I wanted to be a
"spokesperson." Turned out I couldn't always lie with a straight
face.
The good thing about Bill de Blasio's election as mayor of New York is that by the
time he
Detroits NYC, there will be 50 Detroits and no money for a
bailout.
Progressives don't trust you to decide what is best for you,
but they always trust themselves to decide for you.
When the TSA guy at the airport says he's going to pat you
down, you can say, "Go right ahead, sweetie!"
Notice the people who love Obamacare the most are all exempt
from it?
There is no single "Tea Party." There are many
groups calling themselves Tea Party and many different opinions in those
groups.
The Virginia
governor results are yet another example of why we need built-in runoffs, with
people voting "one" for their first choice, "two" for
second, etc. Person with the lowest total is eliminated until you get to someone
with 50% support.
I've developed a computer model that tell what groups will
do. Lets see. It predicts that progressives will continue to pursue policies
that make them feel good and ignore the disastrous unintended results for real
people, until after the collapse. Yup, it works better than the climate model
programs. Or Healthcare.gov.
Democrats think people are too stupid to make decisions for
themselves. They get that from looking at their base.
Liberals are always eager to prove the free market doesn't
work by regulating it out of existence.
I think I'm an oxygen addict. I need more all the time and
suffer withdrawal symptoms if I don't get it. And my wife is an enabler,
carting around extra tanks for me.
Scratch a liberal and if you don't find a Star of David, you
are likely to find an anti-Semite.
For Progressives, the "marketplace of ideas" is a
sheltered workshop.
Prediction: No one running for President will ever again put
"community organizer" on his resume.
From my friend Pastor Alison: "Progressives will like any
scientific theory which gives them an excuse to extend control over of another
area of life." And: "In our age, when most of our social pathologies
are due to absent or abusive fathers, it is counter productive to censor or
banish the heavenly one."
Fracking for natural gas lowers energy, food and other commodity
costs for the poor and working class. It produces jobs. It lessons our energy
dependence and the number of dollars we must send to Muslim states to support
terrorism, oppression of women and the murder of gays. By making natural gas
cheaper, it reduces carbon output. Of
course Progressives hate it.
Throughout history, and in much of the third world today,
what is called "government" is power elites organized to loot the
masses to benefit the rulers, their families and their tribes, maintaining
power through murder and terror. Folks wanting to overthrow those
"governments" only want to put themselves in charge of the looting. Colonialism
may have been bad, but you would not have wanted to live under any of the
governments the colonialists deposed. Looting through government goes on in the
civilized West, of course, but we fight it as it is against our culture, not the foundation of it. Because the West
created societies based on the rule of law, property rights, enforcement of
contracts, the value and rights of individuals and fighting corruption,
hundreds of millions have lived prosperous lives in relative freedom and safety.
But we have lost the will to defend our culture against the barbarians at home
and abroad. In thirty years, America
and Europe will look like Africa and the Middle East ,
with thug-ocracies in charge, and murder, poverty and oppression grinding the
masses. This is the Progressive Legacy your children will inherit. The left
will celebrate "multiculturalism" until our culture is destroyed and
other, uglier cultures are oppressing the people. Then they will find out what
a real War on Women looks like.
Any day the media will claim that if Obama was white the
Obamacare website would work, the failure is due to racism.
We lost the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs, so credit
Obama for winning his War on Prosperity.
Now that Obama has repeatedly demonstrated that a president
has the power to change a law passed by Congress, I hope the next GOP president
is taking notes.
Obama is trying to fix Obamacare. I don't think Obama could
fix a horse race if there were only one horse.
Notice how the media and Democrats cried that it's
"undemocratic" for 41 senators out of 100 to be able to block bills
under the filibuster rule. But they never cry it is "undemocratic"
for one senator--Harry Reid--to prevent the other 99 from voting on dozens of
House-passed bills. I think we need an amendment saying that if either the
House or Senate passes a bill, the other body must vote on it by roll call.
Muslims and their anti-free-speech liberal allies want to
make blasphemy illegal to stop criticism of Islam, the Qur'an and Mohammad. But
all religions are blasphemy to other religions, so it would outlaw every expression
of religious belief. Muslims think that saying God had a son is blasphemy.
The mushy-headed leftists (is that redundant?) who think
that people can be remade into herbivores are going to make us lunch for the
evil carnivores in the human race.
Saw a great tee shirt at the V.A.: "Teamwork is a lot
of people doing what I say."
It gets old hearing people who don't pay taxes accuse those
of us who do of "not paying our fair share."
By the time you read this, Obama will have pivoted to the
economy again. Round and Round he Pivots, and where he stops he leaves a Divot.
Of course, every day Obama pivots to a different scapegoat
to blame for his disasters.
If Obamacare gets any worse, Obama will pivot to Benghazi .
If the Republicans came out in favor of apple pie, the media
would call it racist.
Always go house hunting on a cloudy day--everything looks
good in sunlight.
It's not the least of the tragedies of Barack Obama that the
first black president has chosen to solidify and increase racial divisions,
rather than heal them. Rather than downplay race, and take an even handed
approach in cases like Pigford, Trayvon Martin, the 'beer summit" and the
DOJ dropping of the Black Panther voter intimidation case, Obama and his allies
have played the race card for short term political advantage at every turn. By
setting the bar that any criticism of Obama's policies is based on race, while
the most vicious attacks on black conservative, even using racial slurs, are
"fair game," they have created more white racism than has existed
since the Jim Crow era. By encouraging the sense of victimization in the black
community, while ignoring black on black violence, they have greatly exacerbated
the problems of blacks. Dr. Thomas Sowell reports that the national shame of
lynching saw 119 blacks lynched in the decade of the 1930s, about the three
month total of blacks murdered by fellow blacks in Chicago today. Blacks make up 13% of the
population, but have 40% of the abortions and commit 53% of the murders--about
85% of them murders of other blacks. Trayvon Martin is played over and over,
but no leadership is shown on this genocide of blacks by blacks and liberals. Poor
blacks who want to send their kids to good schools with vouchers are denied
that right by a black president in hock to the unions, who sends his kids to
private schools. To aid the unions, the minimum wage is raised, increasing
black unemployment and denying poor, unskilled blacks entry level jobs where
they could learn some job skills. And upscale liberals in their gated
communities feel all warm and fuzzy about their good intentions. The heart
despairs.
I expect we will soon see a DC street person with a cardboard sign
reading, "Will appear in an Obama photo op if you give me health
insurance."
Truman: The Buck Stops Here. Obama: Well, the buck would
stop here if anyone had told me about all this.
Given that our pastor, though a wonderful person, is a
liberal Democrat, we were surprised when this turned up in the Second Reading
recently: 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13
" For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him
not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not
busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the
Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living."
New country song: "Your lyin' heart, Has made us weep,
We lost the plans, You said we'd keep. They won't come back, Obamacare's
through, Your lyin' heart, Has told on you."
I believe there are racists who voted against Obama because
he's black. But I believe there are four times as many racists, black and
white, who voted for him because he's black.
Obama to Syria .
"If you like your murderous dictator, you can keep your murderous
dictator, if he gives up gassing you. Period."
I will give up my healthcare insurance when they pry my cold...wait.
Is that a death panel? Is that Nancy Pelosi with the gavel?
You should never ask a web designer if your website needs an
upgrade for the same reason you never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
Obama with Obamacare is like a desperate pilot in a stricken
plane, clawing for altitude as more systems fail. We told him this was going to
happen, but he knew everything...
Conservatives talking about impeaching Obama have forgotten
how the bungled impeachment of Bill Clinton restored him to popularity and
saved his presidency. Until you have about 20 Democrat senators calling for
impeachment, it's a waste of time and energy that distracts from the issues.
Suggested movie title: Obamacare the Sequel--Arithmetic
strikes back!
Have to confess, it's all my fault. They told me if I voted
for Romney, millions would lose their health insurance, but did I listen?
No....
I'm glad I wasn't at the Thanksgiving Dinner table where
some folks still love Obama and followed his orders to talk about how wonderful
Obamacare is and others lost their health insurance to Obamacare.
Ut oh. I just heard that after the Iftar Dinner at the White
House, President Obama promised, "If you like your head, you can keep your
head. Period.
Nothing destroys politicians or celebrities like giving in
to the tendency to think they are so special that the rules don't apply to them.
How to separate the gullible from the intelligent: The
intelligent knew Obama was a liar on November 5, 2012.
I'm waiting for Sandra Fluke to try to buy insurance through
Obamacare.
Can we think that George Zimmerman is a jerk whose stupidity
led to the incident with Trayvon Martin without thinking he was a murderer?
A watched pot never boils, but go out of the room to get
something...
Obama says the GOP is vested in the failure of the healthcare
law. Since every GOP congressman voted against it, and every one has voted to
repeal it something like 40 times, this is new how? If you think a law will
destroy our healthcare system and economy, why wouldn't you want it to fail? But
it seems to be failing from his incompetence with no help from them.
Maybe all the Obamacare health insurance cancelations are
just Barack's version of "the knockout game."
Saw a published statistic that said in NYC in the first six
months of 2013, 73.9% of the victims of shootings were black, and only 55.8% of
those stopped and frisked under that "racist" policy were black. If
true, now that the stop and frisk policy is cancelled, look for lots of black
folks to pay with their lives so white politicians and judges can feel good
about being PC. The Price of Progressivism.
ID theft hackers may fix Healthcare.gov so people will give
it their personal info for them to steal.
People are concerned about the number of American, British
and other westerners fighting and dying alongside al Qaeda in Syria . I think
we should give anyone who wants to do so a free airline ticket.
People who are easy to offend spend a lot of time being
offended. I guess they enjoy it.
How about this 2016 GOP ticket? Ted Cruz or Mario Rubio for
President, Sen. Tim Scott for VP. We'd see who was racist then.
Hate crimes are bad. But if you want to beat the crap out of
someone you don't hate, that's apparently not a big deal.
I just sent in the tax exemption paperwork to the IRS for my
new non-partisan community organizing group, "Destroy Liberalism."
What are my odds of approval?
Will someone point me to the section of Obamacare that says
the president may amend it anytime, at will?
Obama: “If you’ve got a majority of folks who believe in
something, then it should be able to pass." Ah, does that include the
majority of Americans who want to repeal Obamacare, build the Keystone
Pipeline, seal the borders and restrict late term abortions?
The entire US
population may get the Darwin Award this year for reelecting Barack Obama.
I once had a staff member in Madison , WI Man. "
Scariest words in the English Language (updated): I'm from
the government and I'm here to regulate things better for you.
Democrats made much of the 50th anniversary of JFK's death.
Considering he cut taxes, supported a strong military, opposed communism, tried
to keep the debt down and got us more involved in Vietnam, it's a surprise they
still love him. Must be the obsessive womanizing they like--Clinton was a real come down, taste-wise. But
with Obama's numbers falling, and Democrats loving Clinton and JFK, look for BO
to have an affair.
50 years from now, will people remember where they were when
they heard Obamacare died?
Kwanzaa: The knockout game meets Santa Claus.
Obama: "The future must not belong to those who slander
the prophet of Islam." How about if you just quote from the Qur'an and
Hadith?
If you said that too much sun causes skin cancers, liberals
would claim you want the sun to go out.
The only difference between Lee Harvey Oswald and Bill Ayers
is that Oswald had a gun, nerve and marksmanship training. They had the same
view of America .
In order to make things more transparent, Obamacare now has
a new website address: Healthcare.crap.
Once again, I wasn't named Conservative of the Year. They
are all a bunch of RINOs.
When I first ran for the senate in 1972, a reporter
described me as looking like a "young James Cagney." I never got eve
with the dirty rat...
My three step program for dealing with The Knockout Game. 1.
Pull legal concealed carry handgun. 2. Point it center of mass at the thug
assaulting you. 3. Pull trigger three times. Check if he still looks dangerous.
Repeat step three if needed.
Now that Obama has used the excuse that the cancelled
insurance plans under Obamacare were "substandard," expect him to
defend abortion by saying the aborted were "substandard babies."
Once they get the ACA working, you know some liberal is
dreaming about the Affordable Food Act, the Affordable Clothing Act, the
Affordable Housing Act, the Affordable Justice Act...
As part of the deal with Iran ,
instead of "Death to America ,"
they now have to chant, "Lingering, terrible illness to America ."
You can usually tell the leftists on Twitter. That their
only adjective usually begins with F indicates low cognitive functioning.
I find the hardest thing about retirement is training my
wife to live on a retirement income. The second hardest thing is training
myself to do so.
I often hear conservatives say, "No more RINOs!
(Republicans in Name Only.) But in many blue states, you often have a choice between
a RINO, who, though supporting things you oppose, will vote Republican to
organize the Senate, thus putting Conservatives in charge of the committees and
the flow of business, or a hard left Democrat, who will vote Democrat to
organize and put liberals in charge of the committees and vote for everything you hate. If we had elected 6
more senate GOP RINOs instead of Democrats in 2010/2012, things would be a lot
better.
Profanity is the poetry of the feeble minded.
Anyone who says "failure is not an option" has
never had responsibility for a serious, tough project. Anything done poorly,
and even many things done right can fail.
Both Israel
and Saudi Arabia oppose the
nuke deal with Iran .
Oh, sure, like they'd know more about the Middle East than a community
organizer from Chicago .
The next excuse will be that expecting Obama to be competent
is racist.
Those who say "Violence never settles anything"
can find out differently by getting crosswise with Marines.
New ad: "In just 15 minutes, you could lose 15% of your
population to Iranian terror nukes."
At one year and 11 pounds, our Teddy Bear pup can already
talk. He says, "Would you please get my ball out from under this piece of
furniture?" "Might I have a taste of what you are eating?"
"Would you like to talk me for a walk?" And, "Can we please play
fetch?" Of course, he doesn't use English, but his high-pitched yelps and
yips, pawing and occasional low growl make his communications perfectly clear.
This is the time of year when my wife buys stuff for
herself--most recently a paid of boots from Lands End--and says, "This can
be one of my Christmas Presents." I think I'll wrap up the empty boxes.
Under Obamacare, Obama said you could keep your plan. Republicans
said you couldn't. Obama said you could keep your doctor. Republicans said you
couldn't. Obama said it would lower your insurance costs. Republicans said it
would increase them. Obama said it would lower the deficit. Republicans said it
would increase it. And so on. So who turned out to be telling the truth?
The only excuse Obama hasn't used yet is that Bo ate the
website.
Go ahead and try again to sign up for Obamacare on the
website. "And may the odds be always in your favor."
I heard Iran
said, "If you like New York , you can keep
New York ."
Only in America
could a politician call the opposition "the party of the rich" at a
$35,000 per plate fund raiser.
My wife said that Black Friday shopping took planning. I
said that every year I plan very carefully to be no where near a store on that
day.
Those crazy Tea Party folks, saying Obamacare was going to
be a disaster.
Yes, these "Random Thoughts" column I usually send
every month was partly inspired by Dr. Sowell's "Random Thoughts"
columns. [Also by Dunk's Almanac and
the Notebooks of Lazarus Long.] Yes,
all three are better than mine, I say objectively, not modestly. Truth is, I have
no false modesty and damn little real modesty.
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
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