Random Thoughts for November,
2013
Robert A. Hall
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“Random Thoughts” from 2008 through July, 2013 are now collected in this book: The Old Jarhead's Journal: Random Thoughts on Life, Liberty
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Journal is a collection of Random Thoughts on politics and life and
Conservative Political Essays, mostly published on the author’s blog, including
the essay “I’m Tired” which went viral on the Internet in 2009, “The Hall
Platform,” “This I Believe,” and “Why I’m a Republican.” While they will be of
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Obamacare Haiku (Send
me yours: tartanmarine(at)gmail.com)
"You can keep your plan."
Lie that sold Obamacare.
Too late voters see.
"I won't sign a plan
Upping debt a single dime."
Trillion dollar lie.
Prosperity is the natural prey of progressives.
We recently had good news. My wife received official
notification--not a mistake or misprint it said--that she was the certified
winner of $978,779.77. We thought the 77 cents was a nice addition. We get it
as soon as we scrape up the $25 processing fee to send them. I was going to
write and suggest that they take it out of the winnings, but it costs $1.05 to
write them, as they--Croft Research Corporation--are in the Netherlands .
Buying a lotto ticket with the $1.05 seemed a better bet and saves 5 cents.
Now days, I find that it takes too much energy to sit around
and do nothing.
A colleague, discussing my retirement, told me, "I can
say it now; you're an acquired taste." I thought that was fair. My
flamboyance, boisterous sense of humor and outspoken style can be, I know,
off-putting. And people often "misunderestimate" me, as George Bush
said. In college, since I was new to the area, people assumed that I couldn't
be elected to student office, and were surprised when I won every time, once on
write ins. When I ran for the state senate against a Democrat incumbent, in a
4-1 Democrat district as an unknown college student, people were stunned when I
won--by nine votes. They were shocked in the next election when I beat the
Democrat by 10,000 votes, and carried every city and town, including the ward
he represented on the city council. They were amazed again in my third election
when I was nominated by both parties, defeating a Democrat on write ins in the
Democrat primary. People who have crossed me have learned to appreciate the
Marine slogan, "No better friend, no worse enemy."
I try to use humor even in my professional writing. Some
people find this unprofessional--but I found over the years that more people
read my stuff because it was a bit entertaining as well as, hopefully,
informative.
The problem with morning is it comes so early. It would get
a lot better PR if it started at, say, 11:00 am
Some days at work I felt like my major task was to
unsubscribe from all the commercial lists people subscribed my e-mail address
to.
I needed a new head for my electric toothbrush. Ws picked up
a four pack at Sam's Club. I told my wife I thought that a two-year supply was
two many. "You'll be around in two years," she said. "Honey, I'm
not even sure we should be buying those green bananas," I replied.
Just because a website agrees with your worldview doesn't mean
it has accurate information.
Obama said he wouldn't sign a healthcare law that added to
the deficit. The PPACA adds trillions. He said he opposed an individual
mandate. Obamacare has a mandate. He
said you could keep your plan. Thousands are losing their plan. He said you
could keep your doctor. Thousands are losing their doctors. He said it would
bring the cost of insurance down. Thousands are being hit with higher premiums.
Is anything he said about Obamacare
true?
We were at the VA, and a fellow came up and asked the coffee
guys how he could get to the 7th floor. "I'd take an elevator," I
said. from his look, he didn't find that helpful. You try and...
Breaking: Gmail's
new compose window still sucks. The old one worked fine, was very easy to use, except
for no auto spell check, which the new one also lacks. I'm stuck with Gmail as
the address is in my books and on my business cards, but if you don't have
Gmail, don't switch.
There is no lie more dangerous than truth distorted by the
media.
For vets who served a hitch in the Army, Navy, Air force or
Coast Guard, it is something they once did. For almost everyone who served in
the Marine Corps, it is one of the two or three most important things in their
lives, and they usually still think of themselves as Marines.
Getting older means you have to buy more sympathy cards. I
notice there are no humorous ones. If this lung transplant thing doesn't work
out, I think my friends should send each other funny cards, like, "Bob
croaked, but at least my wife and my whisky are now safe."
Men and women really are different. My wife has bath soap
with names like "Olive and Aloe" and "English Lavender." I
have soap with names like "Hyatt" and "Marriott."
The more a group supported Obamacare, the more likely it was
to demand a waiver.
Boy, when Obama finds the people responsible for the
Obamacare website, they'll get the harsh treatment he gave the guy who really
drew the red line on Syria .
BREAKING: New media poll. Obamacare still has strong support
among people who still support Obamacare.
If Progressive ideas are so good, why do they have to be
mandatory?
“Nobody’s madder than me...:" said Obama. I agree--mad
as a hatter.
Say, if you have three DWIs and they revoke your car
insurance, isn't that a pre-existing condition they are discriminating against you
for?
Obama should never have let George Bush build the Obamacare
website.
If you want to keep the money you earned, you are greedy. If
you want to take by force the money other people earned and spend it on
yourself or your pet projects, you are for justice. Got it?
All you folks who voted for "hope and Change" who
lost your health insurance, doctor and/or job due to Obamacare--how's that
change working out for you?
Everyone is for cutting spending, reducing the deficit and
controlling big government--as long as it doesn't hurt them personally.
I don't know if my wife is really that scared of spiders, or
calls me to dispatch them so I'll feel like I'm still useful.
When I was a kid, I sometimes wanted to be older. But not this much older....
Black "leaders" and other liberal Democrats foster
a feeling of victimization and helplessness due to racism in the black
population, who are encouraged to think they can't get ahead, must depend on
government and blame whitey. They do this to get votes, thus power, thus
wealth. They often get violence as well. The media covers for them, identifying
the race of the violence perpetrators only in rare cases where the victim is
black and the doer white or "white Hispanic." But it's getting worse,
as Thomas Sowell has pointed out, and the lid is going to blow off. Especially
when the Dane Geld runs out.
Notice how politicians who screw up always say we "have
to move on." Comes right before "spend more time with my
family."
Do you think, late at night, sometimes Obama wishes John
Roberts had voted the other way on Obamacare?
Is it just me, or is "Affordable Healthcare" a lot
more expensive than the old kind?
You'd think the KKK would give Planned Parenthood an award,
considering the millions of black folks they aborted.
Shouldn't those aborted be counted in the infant mortality
rate.
I got up this morning before I wanted to. Just like every
other morning.
Turn's out Obama promise "If you like your doctor you
can keep your doctor" now means "if you like your doctor, you can
send him/her a Christmas card."
There's a lot riding on Obama's promise that the Obamacare
website will work by the end of November. But no promise of his has been true
so far.
Friend says the country is doomed, but he wants to "go out in a pile of
hot steaming brass." Yes.
Support the
Saudi ban on women drivers: oppose the Keystone Pipeline!
We aren't far
away from when if you don't order your coffee black, you'll be charged with
racism.
In America
How to tell an
Extremist Muslim from a Moderate Muslim: The Extremist is shooting at you. The
Moderate is asking Allah to improve the Extremist's aim.
Talked to a
woman of 38. She was complaining that her food stamps had been cut as she was
working more hours. She was also showing off her new "do" with
highlights in her hair, and her manicure, with seven layers of unchipable nail
polish topped with sparkles. You helped subsidize that.
Giving a person
who is ignorant of economics a vote is like giving an 8-year-old a loaded
revolver. It might turn out okay....
My emails are
so interesting, I understand NSA agents are fighting over the right to track
me.
They pulled the picture of the Obamacare Girl off the Obamacare
website. I bet they found out she's working in a topless bar to pay for her
increased premiums.
Someone tell Obama if he gives the illegals citizenship and
they enjoy the American lifestyle, they'll emit a LOT more carbon.
The stimulus, bailouts, green energy, too big to fail, Obamacare--all
piggy banks for "the friends of Obama."
If Obama says, "If you like your religion, you can keep
it," we are in big trouble.
I think the best way to demonstrate that women can be
effective in ground combat is to require every NFL team to have at least three
starting female players, to show they can do as well as men at the physical
stuff.
I hate Halloween. People keep saying, "nice
costume." And I'm not wearing one.
One good thing about Obamacare. I has created such a
target-rich environment for identity theft, that those of us who don't give
personal information to Healthcare.gov are probably safe.
Liberals, desperate to turn criticism of Obama's failing
policies away from those policies, endlessly play the race card. "You hate
him because he's black." But they don't feel the same way about their
vicious hatred of Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams. Allen West, Mia Love, Tim
Scott, Condi Rice or Clarence Thomas--hating them is fine. But Obama's disastrous
performance as president, and the endless lies and broken promises, may fuel
racism, because some people will blame it on his race, rather than his incompetence
and total naive belief in progressive policies.
The Democrats were giving away "I love Obamacare" bumper
stickers. Haven't seen that offer lately.
Prediction. Things will get so bad with Obamacare, that he
will delay the worst parts until after the 2014 midterm elections.
The motto of modern journalism: If you can't say something
bad about Republicans or conservative, say nothing at all.
Liberals act like it's wrong for us to root for the failure
of Obamacare, a law we think puts the final straw on the coming fiscal collapse
of America .
Why? Don't they root for laws they think are bad to fail?
There are only two choices. You can have a country with free
markets, property rights and the rule of law to enforce contracts, or you can
have a country where the masses live in grinding poverty, exploited by those
who hold power or take it.
*****
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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tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. All Hall’s other books are listed here: http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html
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