Random Thoughts for March, 2015. By Robert A. Hall
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Obama loves America
the way a manipulative woman loves a guy she wants to marry so she can
"fundamentally change" him.
Progressive "intellectuals" think Scott Walker is
unfit to be president because he doesn't have a college degree. President Harry
Truman also didn't have a degree. But according to Dr. Thomas Sowell, "As
for reading the classics, President Harry Truman, whom no one thought of as an
intellectual, was a voracious reader of heavyweight stuff like Thucydides and
read Cicero in the original Latin. When Chief Justice Fred Vinson quoted in
Latin, Truman was able to correct him. Yet intellectuals tended to think of the
unpretentious and plain-spoken Truman as little more than a country
bumpkin." They of course loved the "Intellectual" Adali
Stevenson, but Sowell points out that, "Adlai Stevenson was certainly
regarded as an intellectual by intellectuals in the 1950s. But, half a century
later, facts paint a very different picture. Historian Michael Beschloss, among
others, has noted that Stevenson 'could go quite happily for months or years
without picking up a book.' But Stevenson had the airs of an intellectual --
the form, rather than the substance.: "Intellectuals" by Thomas
Sowell, November 11, 2008. http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2008/11/11/intellectuals/page/full
If Scott Walker was really smart, he'd convert to Islam. The
media and the left wouldn't dare attack him.
Obama said his policy is based on "Strategic
Patience." But he forgot to credit the guy who invented it, Neville
Chamberlain.
Obama says we shouldn't call the Islamic Sate
"Islamic" because of their violence. Iran hangs gays, allows child
marriage, stones women for supposed adultery, denies freedom of religion, the
press and speech, oppresses women, supports terrorism, and executes people for
blasphemy. Does Obama consider Iran
"Islamic"? If so, why? If not, as he told them or said so publically?
A decision delayed is a decision made.
Here's the Obama Doctrine: If a Christian, Jew or even a
left-wing atheist who said he prefers Muslims to Christians (as recently in NC)
murders a Muslim, it is a hate crime based on religion. But when Muslims murder
Christians, Jews or, most frequently fellow Muslims, citing the Qur'an and
Hadith as their authority to do so, it has nothing to do with religion, just
lack of jobs.
The Obama Administration says that we can't defeat ISIS by killing them, we must get them jobs. Can Midnight
Basketball for Jihadists be far behind?
Joke: Hillary asked a disabled veteran if he would vote for
her. "Can't," he said, I've only got one arm." "Well,"
Hillary replied, "It only takes one hand to vote." "But what
would I hold my nose with?" asked the vet.
If Brian Williams was a conservative journalist on Fox News,
and had such self-aggrandizing lies exposed, the rest of the media would hound
him to suicide.
Why are Brian Williams self-aggrandizing lies about being
under fire in Iraq worse
than presumptive Democrat nominee Hilary's self-aggrandizing lie about being
under fire in Bosnia ?
Or Obama's vastly more harmful "You can keep your plan/you can keep your
doctor/Your premiums will go down lies to saddle us with Obamacare against the
wishes of a majority in our putative democracy?
It's too bad I've told so many people about my lung
transplant. I could take a page from Brian William's book and tell people the
scar was from when I was hit by an RPG in Vietnam . That's how I won the
National Defense Medal. (Vets will get the joke.)
I hear Hillary Clinton is writing a new book, telling feminists
the secret to success for women in politics. The working title is, Marry a Comer.
Obama said we can't drill our way to lower gas prices. Now
that gas is down due to more drilling, he takes credit for it. If he was at a
Muslim prayer breakfast, he'd take credit for the failure of the Fourth
Crusade.
Obama compared Islamic Terrorism (wrongly) with the
Crusades. Are you worried that a member of the Knights of the Temple
or that a member of ISIS might blow up your
plane? How many Muslims were killed by medieval Crusaders in the last 20 years?
None. How many by Muslim jihadists? Tens of thousands.
Greed is a bottomless pit. It can never be satisfied. So
greedy people have an unhappy life, never having enough.
How many people had full-time jobs when Obama took office?
How many have them now? You call this a recovery?
If things continue as they are, twenty years from now,
liberals will be lobbying for newly-discovered "core constitutional
rights" like infanticide, polygamy and self-rule for no-go zones in the US . (Shari'a
Law including execution of apostates, stoning, child marriage, etc. in Muslim
zones, and self-determination on things like drugs and guns in criminal zones
where we won't be able to enforce the law anyway.) But I doubt things will
continue as they are. By that time, the debt and unfunded liabilities, plus the
huge cost of fighting Jihadism, paying to support millions more illegals and
countering the expanding Chinese Dynasty will bring about fiscal collapse,
followed by social and political collapse. And we may have global cooling, one
of the natural cycles of Earth, creating starvation. So they may be lobbying
for food and fuel. Because thugs with guns will take theirs.
We should take President Obama at his word when he says he
is a patriot and a Christian. After all, he said he was opposed to gay
marriage, and that under his health plan your premiums would go down, health
costs would go down and if you liked your health plan and your doctor, you
could keep them. So we know we can take him at his word...Right?
Apparently a lot of reporters and pundits I read on line
don't have that new-fangled spell check thing on their computers.
My wife said I'm a lot like my dad. "Yes," I
responded. "I got a lot of my bad habits from him--but I've perfected
them."
I believe strongly in vaccination. However, I'm confused. All
the vaccination/political stories suggest that if you don't vaccinate your
kids, it hurts other kids. But if the other kids are vaccinated, how could it?
You can't make yourself talented. I'm never going to be a
passable singer. But you can make yourself a person of courage and values. And
a friendly person who helps others. I'd rather be all that than the best
singer, football player or artist in the world.
Quote: Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away. --Johann
Wolfgang Von Goethe
Internet joke: When I asked my doctor about measles, his
information was spotty...
Obama's promises are worth less than Greek bonds.
When the President gives you shit for policy, you can't make
lemonade. A shit sandwich is about the only option.
The VA Hospital, where I go at least three times a week,
worries me. Other than government officials and active members of the military,
I'd think a Jihadist would most love to murder vets, especially of Iraq and Afghanistan . And the VA is a
"Terrorist Empowerment [Gun Free] Zone," so it would be the safest
place to do so. The VA cops are armed, of course, but a little observation will
tell you where they usually are, and an ambush could be set up. They'd rush
right past a guy with a gun under his coat.
I'd like to start a newspaper called Troubled Times or Interesting
Times. Yes, you can use it--I'm not likely to be starting any papers.
Given the many stupid things that bureaucrats and
politicians on both sides do or say, I'm thinking of opening a consulting
business. They come to me with a wheelbarrow full of money and tell me what
they are thinking of saying or doing. If I say, "fine, go ahead,"
there's no charge. If I say, "Don't do it, it's stupid," they empty
the wheelbarrow in my office. I'd get rich--and be worth every penny.
The left is full of Jihad Groupies, who get off on their
violence.
When, hundreds of years in the future, freedom and
civilization is won back, and historians write of the Collapse of America, they
will write that no matter how hopeless it looked, some people never gave up. My
name won't be known, but I want to be one of them. "Quit" isn't on
the curriculum at Parris Island .
Muslims want to outlaw blasphemy. Well, Islam says Jesus was
not the son of God. To Christians, that's blasphemy--thus Islam must be
outlawed.
I always knew that if I didn't get killed in Vietnam or an
accident, I was likely to grow old. I just didn't know how fast.
I thought "Fifty Shades of Grey" was about a bachelor
doing laundry.
The Progressive Mind: If a Muslim doesn't inflame religious
tensions and promote violence, he is praised as a moderate and a representative
of "The Real Islam." If a black doesn't inflame racial tensions and
promote violence, he is excoriated as an extremist (Ben Carson most recently by
the SPLC) and an Uncle Tom. If he does inflame racial tensions and promotes
marches calling for dead cops, of course, he becomes exempt from taxes and a
White House advisor.
I wish there were as many protests from Muslims over the
tens of thousands of Muslims murdered by Islamists over the last twenty years
as over the three innocent Muslim students murdered by a left-wing atheist over
a parking spot in NC.
The left's position on energy is simple. Anything that
reduces energy costs for low and middle income Americans is bad, and must be
fought viciously.
The proverb is that, "Anger is a good servant, but a
bad master." I agree, but I would say that "Habit is also a good
servant, but a bad master." As the death toll from smoking, obesity and
drugs proves.
I'm looking for a restaurant where the "Soup of the
Day" is Scotch Whisky.
I see that Leslie Gore died at 68 (my age), Will they play,
"It's my funeral and I'll cry if I want to"?
It's true that the majority of Muslims want to live in peace
and prosperity and don't want to hurt you. It's also true that millions take
seriously the Qur'an injunction to fight infidels until they are dead or become
Muslims. They are the ones who religious scholars Obama and Kerry say
misunderstand their own religion. And if you live in a city of any size, there
is at least one of these Islam-misunderstanders who is screwing up his courage
to "go Jihad." Pray you are not in the area when he does, because
before the gun come out, you can't tell him from a peaceful Muslim.
It's not surprising that Obama can read the violent passages
in the Qur'an and not believe they mean what they say. He read's the
Constitution and doesn't believe that it means what it says. "'When I use
a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I
choose it to mean — neither more nor less." --Through the Looking Glass.
Thinking of signing up for Obamacare? You might want to use
some "Strategic Patience."
What's the difference between the U.S. Government and the
Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.
Jonah Goldberg: For eight years, every calumny and slander
imaginable was hurled at Bush and the United States , and whenever anyone
pushed back on it, we were told that it was patriotic. We just love
our country! Dissent is the highest form of patriotism! Since president Obama
became president, dissent is no longer the highest form of patriotism at all.
It’s often simply racist now. Indeed, dissent from Obama and his agenda has
arguably become the thing that liberals hate most about America
these days.
I'm sure that the Democrats complaining that Scott Walker
didn't finish college would support him for president if Walker would pick up enough credits for a
degree in social work or gender studies.
Turns out that is was Putin who had "more
flexibility" after Obama's re-election.
It will be exciting if Elizabeth Warren run against Hillary
Clinton. The Fake Cherokee Indian versus the Fake Bosnian War Hero--and may the
best faker win!
I hope Obama calls his free college program "Cash for
Flunkers."
If a tee or sweat shirt says, "Property of ----"
it's not.
One country in the Middle East is a democracy that has
multiple political parties, protects freedom of speech, the press and religion,
offers equal rights to women and is a true friend and ally to the United States : Israel . Naturally, progressives
hate Israel and make
apologies for the barbarians who do none of these things, stone rape victims
for adultery, hang gays, encourage child marriage and FGM, execute people for
apostasy and blasphemy and wish to destroy the Israel state and exterminate the
Israeli people.
I can hardly wait until the people who gave us
Healthcare.Gov are running the Internet.
Let's put Scott Walker's college transcripts up against
Barack Obama's. Oh, wait, we can't--Obama's are secret.
Being a few credits short of a degree, Walker
probable isn't smart enough to know if he's under sniper fire in Bosnia . Or if
he's 1/32 native American by family legend, thus entitled to benefits as a
minority.
A bureaucrat is a person who would put a sell-by date on pet
rocks, because the regs allow him to.
The Oscars are not about movies. They are about mutual
stroking by the politically-correct elites. I never watch any of these type
shows--I couldn't care less what they think.
As long as black culture in the cities condemns education as
"acting white," poor blacks will be condemned to live in the Dark
Ages. (Or is "Dark Ages," referring to the poverty and backwardness
of the middle ages, now racist?)
Internet Quote: "White privilege" = being
held responsible for the acts of your ancestors by folks who accept no
responsibility for the acts of their children."
When I was doing the taxes this year, I told my wife we
should get divorced and live together. We'd do better on taxes, she'd qualify
for subsidized healthcare, food stamps, probably the earned income tax credit,
and there might be other benefits. Only kidding, of course. But then I met a
young woman at the VA, coming in for a bad leg. Medically retired from the Navy.
Was in Afghanistan .
Said she and her boyfriend had lived together for years, expected to continue
to do so. "Costs too much to be married with taxes and all." Thus has
our government contributed greatly to the decline of marriage.
When an email comes personalized (Dear Robert), I know it's
an impersonal, computer-generated sales pitch.
A politician can hardly go wrong when addressing a group if
he says, "My friends, the government should be doing more for you and your
cause." It's the American mantra. I used to put polls in the newspapers
for my constituents to clip and send to me. About 80% of the respondents said
that high taxes and government spending" was the "most critical issue
facing our state." But among people who said that, 80% also listed at
least one area where the government should be spending more money, and 50%
listed two. The only area where a majority felt the government should spend
less was on "welfare." But a majority felt the state should spend more "helping poor children."
Pretty much the same thing.
Liberals view private enterprise as a cow from which they
can get ever-more milk, while constantly reducing the feed.
If Bush had pushed "Net Neutrality," liberals
would have called it a crime against free speech.
The Obama Administration is increasingly a sheltered
workshop for the logically-challenged.
When someone tells you that Global Warming is "Settled
Science," remind them that eugenics, which started with things like
Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood's effort to keep more of the
"unfit" (read "blacks") from being born and led step by
step to the Holocaust, was settled science in its day. (Given that 40% of the
abortions are to the 13% of the population that is black, it still is in some
quarters.)
Nothing leads to contentment like a grateful heart.
About four years ago, I wrote The
Coming Collapse of the American
Republic
In the book, I postulate that, if not curbed, four trends
will lead to fiscal, political and social collapse, chaos, riots and violence
in the United States .
They are: 1. The enormous growing debt and much worse unfunded liabilities of
government at all levels, federal, state and local, 2. The continued unchecked
growth of illegal immigration which threatens to bankrupt the system and change
the culture in ways that neither citizens nor immigrants will like, 3. The
growth of China as a military and economic power determined to dominate Asia
and bring the countries around her under her control as vassal states, and 4.
The growing threat of Political Islam challenging Western values, freedom and
culture. Since it was published, each of these threats has grown exponentially
worse. And if I were to write a new version today (I'm cannot due to health and
time) I would add two more threatening trends. 5. The rise of Putin and a
militant Russia determined
to recreate the old Soviet Empire, and aware that the US and Europe
cannot project enough power to stop her if it comes to war. We do not have the
fit, patriotic population today, nor the industry, to fight WWII. 6. The
accelerating collapse of our culture among native-born Americans with the
pathologies of increasing non-marital births, crime in the cities, drugs,
domestics violence, lack of education and declining civic participation,
membership in religious and civic organizations and the declining marriage
rate. And lest you attribute the pathologies in our cities to race, you should
read Life at the Bottom by British
Psychiatrist Anthony Daniels, writing as Theodore Dalrymple. The same
culture-destroying pathologies are growing in British cities--and they are
growing among the white, native British, much more than among black or brown
immigrants. It's not race, it's culture and a system that rewards bureaucrats
for making people helpless dependents of the government. If you would like me
to email you a free 80-page PDF of The
Coming Collapse to read on your computer, write to me at
tartanmarine(at)gmail.com.
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Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. Hall’s eleven books are listed here: http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
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