Sunday, July 1, 2018

Random Thoughts for July, 2018.


Random Thoughts for July, 2018.
By Robert A. Hall
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So, ABC fired Rosanne for sending a racist tweet. What about her “Freedom of Speech” that the NFL players union demands for themselves from their employers? Will they protest her firing?

Hate speech. n. Anything you say that a liberal disagrees with.

Inanimate objects can sense when I don’t feel well and stop cooperating with me.

To go into politics today, you must have a huge ego and ambition to survive the endless calumny, that would make a masochist run up the white flag.

The media has an uncanny ability to ignore news that doesn’t fit their preferred narrative.

Everyone’s against sin. And everyone (including the clergy of the various religions) has a different idea as to what sin is. I like Robert Heinlein’s definition, that sin is hurting other people unnecessarily, that hurting yourself isn’t sin, just stupid. I would add failing to prevent harm to others that you could prevent.

Apparently, there is a lot of money to be made selling shallow theology to shallow people.

Tattoos are graffiti on the temple of the body.

In Wisconsin, “Formal” means clean, un-ripped jeans and a clean tee shirt without an offensive slogan. Usually.

Some girls would be very pretty if they’d wash off all the makeup, get normal eyebrows and let their hair go to its natural color in a simple style.

For her birthday, we took my step-daughter and her family to an Indian restaurant they like. Amazingly, the Indian owners and employees seemed very glad to see us, not upset about cultural appropriation at all. Same thing happens when we go to Chinese, Thai or Mexican restaurants. They should all be mad at us, according to the snowflakes, but they seem happy to have us. Can’t figure it out.

Progressives believe in science. Unless the scientific evidence doesn’t agree with their PC world view. Which is why vaccination refusal rates are highest in areas that vote hard left.

If you think you don’t eat GMOs, you are fooling yourself. Everything we eat has as some point in the past been genetically modified by human adopting mutations that were better and selective or cross breading. Which is why we all eat almonds, but wild almonds (not genetically modified) are deadly poison. But now that science can make people’s lives better by adopting these modifications in the lab, like “Golden Rice” which will benefit millions, many are worried about genetic modifications. Especially progressives.

It often seems as if man’s primary pastimes are self-medication, self-stimulation and self-flagellation.

I’m glad I wasn’t rich as a kid. But that now that I’m way to old for it to spoil my character, I’d like to give it a try.

Tee shirt at the VA: “I’m mentally constipated. I haven’t given a shit in years.”

Badass comeback from the net: While pumping my gas one day a nice looking 19 or 20-year-old female apparently noticed a veteran bumper sticker on my car (I'm an old white bearded Viet Nam vet) and she asked if I was a veteran. I said, “Yes,” and she asked, “Really? Which side, Union or Confederacy?” That girl knew how to hurt a guy!” –GF

Wonder how the NFL celebrates Flag Day? Maybe with more yellow flags?

If you were to get everything you want in material possessions, you would soon want more. The old saying that “Contentment is Wealth” is true.

Recruit your armies where you can. When I got out of the Marines and went to a community college, I wanted to go into politics and decided for practice to run for student government. Problem was, I was four years older than the other kids and didn’t know anybody, while the freshman class had three main cliques, kids who knew each other from the three area high schools. So, I went around and built my own clique, the fat girl that no one talked to, the nerdy kid with pimples, kids who didn’t go to one of those schools. And I won. Coming in second was a girl from the largest high school who thought she knew everyone.

Joseph Sobran: ‘Need’ now means wanting someone else’s money. ‘Greed’ means wanting to keep your own. ‘Compassion’ is when a politician arranges the 
transfer.” 

America is addicted to sugar. If you put enough sugar in it, you could sell bottled piss.

Stupidity is not a crime. But it lends itself to many things that are. Or should be.

The reason universities discriminate against Asians is the same as the reason they used to discriminate against Jews. They are trying to eliminate “Bright Privilege.”

Many people are born without a sense of urgency and go through life coping with things undone that create problems and with disappointed and angry people who have to interact with them.

I’ve said before, “Whom the gods would destroy, they first give a sense of entitlement.” No where is that better illustrated than in the fall of high-ranking folks in Washington for feathering their own nests.

In this world, there is no “ever after,” happy or not. Plants die, animals die, people die, building crumble or are replaced, and organizations and institutions eventually die. Including the American Republic. The question is not “if,” but “when?”

I notice that all the Vietnam veterans I know are getting old. This must be caused by Agent Orange and we are all entitled to compensation.

Never date anyone with jailhouse tattoos (the homemade kind).

GMOs are the new Fluoride in the drinking water.

If we could just declare illegal aliens to be an invasive species, the liberal environmentalists would demand they be extirpated.

Want to have some fun? Ask Black Lives Matter protesters who William Wilberforce and William Lloyd Garrison were.

“He has bottom.” This is an old compliment for a man, like “He has sand.’ It meant the guy had grit, determination, strength, character, and was solid. It has fallen into such disuse that one cannot find it with Google. Perhaps because so few men “have bottom” today.

You can’t reason with an annoying tickle in your throat. A lot of people are like that too.

Liberal media rushed to blame to Annapolis shooter on Trump’s tweets about the media. No apologies when it was discovered that he shooter had been threatening the paper for five years. Typical. They are driving people to Trump.

Get the collection! My “Random Thoughts” from 2008 through July, 2013 are collected in this book: The Old Jarhead's Journal: Random Thoughts on Life, Liberty, and Leadership by Robert A. Hall
The Old Jarhead’s 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 interest to conservative thinkers, they are collected here in book form as a service to readers who wish to give a copy to favorite liberals and watch their heads explode. All royalties are donated to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund.

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