Random Thoughts for
March 2019
By Robert A. Hall
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"Après nous, le déluge"
The people who made “Honor” an object of ridicule now
complain constantly that we are governed by self-interested, corrupt liars and frauds.
As ye sow…
I’m an old-fashioned conservative Republican. I believe,
unlike most of my party today, that character counts.
The price of civilization is the blood of warriors. Western
civilization is becoming unwilling to pay the price, which will kill
civilization. Then we will go back to the 20,000 years of tribal barbarism that
preceded the development of the rule of law, free markets and democracy, which
has lifted much of the world out of the grinding poverty, starvation and
slavery that existed since the dawn of history. And that we will return to
without Western Civilization.
Do you want to make yourself a great deal happier? Develop a positive attitude. Be nice to
people. Help other people whenever you can. Be cheerful all the time. Stop
complaining to others. You will notice that all these things are within your
control regardless of external factors. And that no one is perfect in them. Or
anything.
We all live one phone call away from Code Red.
“The free market is the greatest anti-poverty program in all
of human history. In a very real sense, it is the only anti-poverty program in
all of human history.” --Jonah Goldberg, Suicide of the West.
Modern curse: “May you burn in the bowels of the
bureaucracy.”
Some people seem to enjoy living in the sewers of society,
despite good upbringings. But sometimes their children crawl out.
American politicians have now weaponized vileness, as
Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, Castro and others did in their countries. Can
oppression and violence be far behind?
She gives fruitcakes a bad name.
On hyphenated immigrants: “Any man who carries a hyphen
around with him carries a dagger he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this
republic whenever he gets the chance.” Progressive President Woodrow Wilson.
I see that female Democrat reps wore all white to the SOTU
speech. Take that, Black Lives Matter!
Waiting for a haircut, I was reading the advice column for
the local paper. A woman complained that whenever her mother-in-law came over,
she set to “cleaning like a maniac.” I
don’t see the problem. Just send her to our house twice a month.
“If you
lack the courage to fail, you lack the courage to succeed.” --Rabbi Jonathon
Sacks
Age is
just a number. But in my case, it’s a pretty big number.
Things
are not as they should be. They never have been. They are always as they are.
Each of us can have an impact, but it’s small, like one man in China with a
shovel working on digging a 1,000-mile canal. Maybe he thinks it’s not worth
doing, but if there were no men with shovels, no canal.
Perhaps
the reason you have increasing aches, pain and misery as you get old is to make
you less afraid of death.
All men
were created equal. But the progressives made some better than the rest of us
on the basis of race, gender or religion. “Merit” is racist. Except for
black football players.
If
you are being admitted to the hospital, be sure to leave your dignity at home.
And don’t expect to get much rest.
A
little OCD is functional. It helps keep you organized, lets you complete small
tasks and means you are likely to be on time.
Churchill
said: “Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that
anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes
he will encounter.”
Bernie
Sanders had a wealthy friend and potential donor that he wanted to impress.
First, he took him to the
couple’s Washington home for drinks. Then they flew up to Vermont where they
stopped at the Sanders’ home in Burlington, then drove to their $600,000 beachfront vacation home on Vermont’s Lake
Champlain Islands for a long weekend. “So,
what do you think?” He asked his friend. “Very impressive, Senator. But what
will you do if the socialists get in power?”
Two
proverbs on punctuality from my friend Alison: We count the faults of those who keep us waiting.
Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
If it wasn’t for nonsense, the
hard left and hard right would have no sense at all. Not that the center always
has a lot.
The number of people who die of
ass-holism is growing alarmingly.
Note to haters left and right:
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive
out hate, only love can do that.” --Martin Luther King.
It’s hard to take you seriously
in the real world if you are over 25 and your clothes, tattoos and piercings
make you look like an unsupervised teenager who got into someone’s marijuana
stash.
“Absolute
power is like getting a wish from a genie: the first thing you wish for is more
wishes.” --Jonah Goldberg, Suicide of the West.
Authenticity
can be faked. On the left, “authenticity” is everything. Thus Obama, with one
white parent, is “authentically” black, while Justice Clarence Thomas, Sen. Tim
Scott, Dr. Thomas Sowell and Dr. Walter Williams, all with two black parents,
are not. Rachel Dolezal, the woman who has
two white parents, who headed an NAACP chapter, is thus “authentically black.”
People with penises and XY chromosomes who claim to be female are
“authentically” women. Women who support Trump are not. All this proves that
the left is authentically challenged.
Glory
comes to those who deserve glory, not to those who seek it. Though Hollywood
and the media try to manufacture undeserved glory.
Yes,
there are exceptions. There are always exceptions.
Most
people get all their historical knowledge from Hollywood. So, it is terribly flawed, agenda-driven knowledge. It’s like
learning to drive by watching the car chase scene in an action movie.
The
heart of progessivism is wanting to feel good with someone else bearing the costs.
Occasionally
a progressive will trip over a fact, but they soon recover and rush on, bound
for utopia.
We grow old slowly, but once we
are old, it seems to have happened overnight.
You can now be hounded out of a
job, punished, and made a social pariah because it has come to light that
something you did or said 30 or 40 years ago, ever as a teen, is offensive by
today’s standards to one of the victim groups making up the Democrat coalition.
There is no statute of limitations.
Building someone up doesn’t make
you smaller. It makes you bigger.
I meet a lot of old men who
have, or have had, a drug or alcohol problem. I’m an old man with a book
problem. Show me a history book at Goodwill, and it goes on my five shelves of
unread books. Never mind that I just winnowed out two boxes on unread books to
take to the VA, and don’t have enough years left to read the books I have.
Note to demagogues left and
right. Being for the right values is more important than “winning.” Being kind,
decent and fair is more important than being “strong.”
There’s now a politician with a
sign on her desk that says, “Trust your crazy ideas.” Guess which party. Wasn’t
that what Hitler, Mao, Stalin and Uncle Ho did?
If you discover something
negative about a left-wing politician, within weeks the medias will be
referring to your discovery as “discredited.”
If you are checking your smart
phone when walking, when in the elevator, when having a meal with others, you
are an addict just like a heroin addict or cigarette addict.
Foresight and wisdom are not the
same thing.
There’s no need for the
government to ban books. In 30 years there will be nobody who wants to read
them.
If you don’t know the three
branches of government, what freedoms are protected in the Bill of Rights,
when the Civil War took place and why, can’t name any of the founders, and are
ignorant of other basic facts about our form of government and history, why the
hell should people be imploring you to
get out and vote?
“The government can improve your
net worth with a check, but it cannot improve your self worth.” --Jonah
Goldberg, Suicide of the West.
People now identify and cheer
for political parties the way they do for NFL and other sports teams. This
tribalism isn’t healthy.
No Obama, no Hillary? No Trump.
The Tea Parties were the only
protests that cleaned up after themselves. No wonder the left hated them and
the media demonized them.
It’s kind of touching that you
want to be right so badly that you actually believe what you are saying.
If it’s a robo call, it’s not
worth listening to.
Neither the Dems nor Trump cares
about the impact of policy on real people so long as they “win.”
The defense of marijuana is that
it’s not as bad as smoking. The defense of being stabbed is that it’s not as
bad as being shot.
“An empty head is not really
empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything
into an empty head.” – Eric Hoffer
The difference between now and
when I was young is that then folks ignored 20-something twits.
Clean? You can eat off the floor
at our house. You’ll die in agony, but you can eat off the floor.
One can only look at the last 25
years and say, “Mistakes were made.”
When God gives you a mission,
you don’t say no.
When I was a kid, they said
anyone can grow up to be president. Turns out it’s true.
If they want to become citizens
and vote, immigrants have to pass a basic citizenship test. Illegal immigrants
don’t. Neither, alas, do people born here, most of whom can’t tell you the
three branches of government, or name the rights protected in the Bill of Rights. Any of them. (I wonder if Rep. AOC could pass. Or
others.)
Today’s Democrats are about as
Democratic as a one-party “Democratic Socialist Republic.” And they hope to
have that level of repression for “the people’s good.”
The “Green New Deal” is just the
Old Red Deal.
If there’s one thing I’m sick of
its “improvements” to the computer programs I use so I can no longer do things
I did and want to do.
For many years, some conservatives
have said the left and Democrats were socialist. They called it a hysterical
lie. But now we learn the truth, when they think it’s safe to come out of
hiding.
Remember folks, there are no
lifeguards at the gene pool... Todd R.
Liberals want the NRA to stop
killing kids. Because, after all, that’s Planned Parenthood’s job.
I read in the paper that the US
currently has 7.3 million job opening, the most in the two decades since
records have been kept. Not to worry, the Green New Deal will take care of
that. And more.
Saw a good meme on Facebook:
“Welcome to your 60s. If you have not already developed a mystery aliment, one
will be assigned shortly.”
Now days if
you wrote a novel about slavery, the slave owners would have to call their
slaves “African Americans” of you’d be pilloried.
Hitler tried
to exterminate Jews and Slaves in the east as “Useless Eaters.” After the Green
New Deal, first they will come for the cows, but at some point, they will come for
the “Useless Farters.” That’s you, my friend.
All you can
do in this world is pray and bail. And be kind to those bailing next to you.
I pray every
day, but sometimes I wonder if it’s not blasphemy, telling God his job and
trying to keep him on task.
Kaepernick has joined Bowe Bergdahl, Chelsea Manning, Monica Witt and
many others in the progressives’ pantheon of anti-American heroes. Can
the rehabilitation of Benedict Arnold be far away?
The California Progressives lauded High Speed Rail as the
wave of the future, ignoring, as they always do, the math. Now that it has
collapsed, will California voters throw out the politicians who pissed away
billions of their tax dollars? Nah, they will reelect them hoping that next
time reality won’t bite them in the ass.
From Facebook: “You can vote your way into socialism, but you
have to shoot your way out.”
Remember when “journalist” and “propagandist” meant two
different things? Good times.
As gaseous as I am from age and meds, it’s a wonder AOC hasn’t
declared me public enemy #1.
With all the far-left candidates running for the Democrat
nomination, it’s a shame Stalin’s not alive. He could clear the field.
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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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