Random Thoughts for June,
2018.
By Robert A. Hall
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It was a short spring. We went from
coat to light jacket to shirt sleeve in about ten days.
I don’t know if my problems are
being caused by the Illuminati, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Vast
Right-Wing Conspiracy, or the Knights Templar. But surely they can’t be my
fault!
Defeat follows leaders who say,
“Don’t worry about that. It can’t be done,” only to find the opposition has
done it.
Many people seem to need someone or
some circumstance to blame for their misfortunes. And they will find that
person/circumstance regardless of any connection to reality.
Few things are as annoying as
finding a neat new way to do something and discovering everybody else already
knows it.
When someone dies, people say,
“Heaven gained a new angel.” I’m religious, but I have trouble seeing myself as
an angel.
If you don’t want to consider facts
that are contrary to your world view, just label the source as far right or far
left and forget it.
Every nation seems to need a
minority to oppress and revile. In Muslim countries it is Jews, Christians, and
Sunni or Shia Muslims (and other sects), depending who is in the minority. In
much of Asia it is the “Overseas Chinese.” In Africa, the people of the other
tribe. In the US it has been blacks, Indians, Asians, and Hispanics. Currently
it is straight, Christian white males who believe in the family, the work
ethic, limited government, free enterprise, free markets and the constitution
including free speech and the right to protect your family. (And dead
Confederates, though that isn’t as satisfying as they are dead and there aren’t
enough monuments and graveyards to go around.) We just have to wait. It will
eventually be another group. I’m hoping for university professors and
“journalists.”
A weatherman who said something
non-PC on the air would be fired immediately. But I’ve never heard of one being
fired for making a wrong weather report.
I saw a young woman with “wild and
reckless” on her tee shirt. That these are now considered character traits to
brag about says some about our society.
I’m thinking of opening the “Amish
liquor store and bar.” Think that would get any blowback? Polygamy Porter is
still going strong in Utah I believe.
“It is useless for the sheep to
pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism if the wolf remains of a of a
different opinion.” –William Inge.
If it doesn’t smell bad, it doesn’t
matter what the sell-by date says.
I suppose it’s good they banned
napalm. Now more of the enemy will survive to kill America’s sons and
daughters. But it won’t be the kids of the elites demanding it be banned; those
folks never serve. Not Trump, not Obama, Not Clinton. Or their kids.
If the world wasn’t full of
disorganized procrastinators, I wouldn’t have made such a good living.
Be thankful for thrift stores like
Goodwill. Otherwise I’d be running around naked, and nobody wants to see that!
The price of people feeling good
about themselves is always paid by others. They wouldn’t pay it. When I was a
state senator in the 1970s, I blocked divestment of the Commonwealth’s pension
funds from companies doing business with South Africa. Not because I had any
brief for South Africa or apartheid, but because of the cost to taxpayers. It
passed after I left. My floor leader called me to tell me I was right. The
Commonwealth took something like a $20m hit (a lot in 1983), but the taxpayers
never knew who to blame as it was spread around.
You say “fat shaming” is bad? I do
it every day! I get on the scale and it says 170. I say, “You fat,
undisciplined pig, it should be under 160.”
When we moved to Madison, WI the
city was populated by dozens of fiberglass cows, all painted by local
“artists.” Some were nice, but many were hideous. Now we have about 80
fiberglass Bucky Badgers, the UW mascot, spread around town, all painted by
local artists…
If kids get a cookie, or a
different meal or a toy every time they want one, they will grow up to be
entitled jerks, who get petulant and nasty anytime the world doesn’t give them
what they want. And the parents will wonder why they turned out that way.
Funny how Michele Obama was off
limits to media criticism and mockery but Melania Trump is fair game almost
every day.
One of the pernicious effects of
gargantuan government and limitless budgets that few talk about is that it
leaves Washington afloat in easy money, thus government corrupts almost
everyone who touches it.
Today
is Edna Frankel day. We celebrate because she is the only person ever to have
read the terms and conditions on a website before clicking yes.
We all
suffer from the pernicious effect of ego and ambition on government, the
military and civilian organizations.
Because something sounds profound doesn't suggest that it
means anything.
Young
people talk about sex, cars and things from pop culture. Old people talk about
their health.
I have
to use eye drops because I have high pressure in my eyes. I don’t know if this
is from the drugs I’m on for my lung transplant. Or just one of those gifts God
gives you to make old age interesting.
I said, “God, I think I’m getting
senile.” God said, “Getting?”
My friend Marty taught me never to
disparage a compliment. Someone says, “Good job,” and you say, “Well, I got
lucky.” It disparages the person giving the compliment as well. The proper
response to a compliment is, “Thank you.”
It’s easier for many people just to
accept a religious or political belief as true than to do any critical
thinking.
Saw a tee shirt at the VA: “I’m
emotionally constipated. I haven’t given a shit in years.”
I wonder if Canadians would feel
differently about Israel if the US was lobbing rockets across the border every
day. Or sending in suicide squads to murder Canadians.
I read that Iran is threatening to
expose western officials who took bribes to support the Iran nuke deal. I
double-dog dare them. Bring it on.
The media feeds off school
shooting, because they increase sales and ad revenues. And the wall to wall
coverage encourage more shootings, so the cycle continues. The worst school
disaster in US history was the “Bath Massacre” in 1927 Michigan. Thirty-eight
kids and six adults were killed. 58 others were injured. By bombs, not guns.
But we didn’t have TV, the Internet and 24-hour news.
Back when I lived in NJ, my
step-daughter was over. I was chastising her, probably over not finishing
college or having a FT job. She said, “Bob, I’m only 26. What were you doing at
26?” I replied, “I had served four years in the Marines including Vietnam,
earned AA & BA degrees and been elected to the Massachusetts Senate.” End
of conversation.
I wonder if the Asian-Americans who
poured hate on Keziah Daum, who is not Chinese, for
wearing a cheongsam to her prom, eat with chopsticks every meal or have they
“culturally-appropriated” forks and knives from those with European heritage?
Isn’t
a black cast performing “Hamilton” cultural appropriation from Europeans?
“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual
could believe them.” ― George Orwell.
If you believe, “Different strokes
for different folks,” maybe you shouldn’t try out for a rowing team.
"The idea of conquest was central to the Sultanate,
intricately interwoven with its holder's position as leader of the Muslim
world. ... Only spectacular conquests could legitimize a sultan." Roger
Crowley, Empires of the Sea.
Man is the only animal that picks up after itself. Well,
some of them do.
Both the right and the left have facts that are allowed, and
facts that are not allowed.
Civilization has been described as “a thin crust over a
volcano.” Progressives are determined to peel away that crust in the name of “social
justice.” They, too, will be engulfed by the eruption.
“Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.” -George
Carlin
The constitution and those who defend it is all that is keeping
our people from a Stalinist hell imposed by the Progressive nomenklatura. All for our own good, of
course.
Just because a banana has bad spots doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy
the good parts. Just because your life has bad spots doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy
the good parts.
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*****
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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His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
He currently works part-time as a writer-editor in the My Life, My Story
program as the Madison VA hospital, interviewing vets and writing up their life
histories.
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