Random Thoughts for February 2019
By
Robert A. Hall
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I
don’t know why the big upset over the wall. Isn’t Mexico paying
for it? Or was that like, “If you like your (insurance) plan you
can keep it.”
The
progressive mind: “No doubt a lot of nonsense has been talked about
the inalienable rights of the individual, and a great deal that was
mere vague sentiment and pleasing speculation has been put forward as
fundamental principle.” --Woodrow Wilson.
What
you intended to do does not matter in the least. Only what you did
matters.
“The
fact is that slavery disappeared only as industrial capitalism
emerged. And it disappeared first where industrial capitalism
appeared first: Great Britain. This was no coincidence. Slavery was
destroyed by capitalism.” --Economist Don Boudreaux.
Buying
the Sunday paper is like catching a fish. You have to gut it before
you are left with the useful parts.
In
Madison, Wisconsin, the thugs and criminals get more sympathy and
support than the police. Good reason to have a concealed carry
permit.
Many
people will reject truth if it conflicts with their preferred vision.
Confronted with facts they cannot respond to, they will answer with
name calling. The worse their cognitive dissonance, the more vicious
the names.
Things
happen that interfere with your best intentions, but people who are
chronically late are rude and self-centered. They think their time is
valuable, yours is nothing. I’ve probably said this before, but it
continues to plague me.
Tomorrow
is relentless.
Accurately
quoting the Qur’an, the sacred Hadiths or Muslim leaders throughout
history on Jihad, murder and oppression of non-Muslims is racist and
Islamophobic. Unless, of
course, you are a Muslim calling for Jihad, murder, and oppression of
non-Muslims, in which case it is the beauty of multiculturalism.
Collage
students have been educated to be fragile snowflakes so that any
truth they don’t like is hate speech and they must have safe spaces
to shield themselves from reality. They
will pay
a terrible price.
Why
do we say “deceased”? Wouldn’t “ceased” do? As in, “He
ceased.” “Ceased what?” “Ceased breathing, ceased
everything.”
This
is the immutable law: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or me. Not a
building. Not the United States. Not
even the Earth.
Those
who do good wish they had done more. And so do many who do evil.
By
educating students that capitalism is evil, the universities are
guaranteeing that your grandchildren will live in grinding poverty,
in lives that are “nasty, brutish and short.” They are destroying
the modern
social
contract that has lifted the world out of poverty, suffering, hunger
and early death.
I
carry an emotional support 9mm.
Where
is Charles Martel now that we need him?
We
all live in a high crime neighborhood. Earth.
The
saying, “What goes up
must come down,” sure doesn’t apply to weight, age or government
debt.
White
supremacists and Black Lives Matter are just flip sides of the same
evil coin, which believes people should be judged by the color of
their skins and their tribes, not the content of their characters or
their merit of knowledge and accomplishment..
“Poverty
is natural; wealth takes effort.” --Jonah Goldberg, The
Suicide of the West.
Why
is selling tacos cultural appropriation and the musical Hamilton
not?
There
never was a “golden age” when humans lived in harmony with nature
and toleration of other humans’ religions, cultural and racial
differences. Modern liberal democracy, which only flourished under
capitalism, free markets, contract enforcement, property rights,
separation
of powers,
and the rule of law is as close as we have ever gotten.
Fake
news is anything you don’t like.
Loving
someone does not mean they don’t annoy the hell out of you from
time to time.
My
mouth is often hungry when my belly isn’t. This makes weight
control a huge challenge.
Conservatives
believe in Locke. Liberals believe in Rousseau.
The
progressives who attribute virtue to blacks because of their race are
no different than the slave-owners who attributed vices
to blacks because of their race. In both cases, they are judging
people, “By the color of their skins, not the content of their
characters.”
It’s
no surprise that Democrats
support separate dorms for blacks on campus and safe spaces for black
students. Since the Civil War, Democrats
have believe in, “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow,
segregation forever.”
“Virtue
is nor hereditary.” --Thomas Paine.
Just
because you got away with something doesn’t mean it was a good
idea. Some people who talk or text on their cell phones while driving
don’t have an accident for tears. But every time they do so,
they put their lives at risk Worse, the put at rick the lives of
strangers, maybe children.
The
natural state of humans is to live in poverty, hunger, and
oppression. Many are working to take us back to that, all in the
pursuit of utopia.
My
wife watches “Say
Yes to the Dress” a “reality” show where rich twits spend
fortunes on wedding dresses. One
spent $30,000 on a dress, more than I paid for my first house in
1980. A commercial says the average American lives in 11 houses in a
lifetime. I have lived in 24, counting five apartments, plus ten
different barracks, two tents and two bunkers in the Marines.
It
was progressives that pushed the “settled science” of eugenics,
to be sure fewer of the “unfit” (blacks, people with down
syndrome, or flawed genes) were born and more of the “fit” would
be born. This led to the founding of Planned Parenthood and Nazi
Germany’s “final solution” to dispose of Jews and other
“useless eaters.”
If
tariffs are good for the country, why not change the constitution to
let states charge them? Wisconsin could charge duty on every car,
tank
of oil and other products made elsewhere, and other states could
charge duty on every
shipment of corn, milk and cheese from Wisconsin.
"When
the whole world is running toward a cliff, he who is running in the
opposite direction appears to have lost his mind." --C. S. Lewis
Trump
seems to have thought that by hiring Mattis and Kelly, he was getting
generals who would say, “Yes, Sir” to every order, regardless of
the impact on the country. Shows he doesn’t know the military in
general and Marines in particular.
I
heard that a slug is just a snail that went through a divorce.
The
Administrative State is hostile to the Constitution, democracy and
freedom. Un-elected and unaccountable bureaucrats will coerce you to
do what they think is best.
Even
saying
“The Constitution, Democracy and Freedom” is now considered hate
speech by the left.
They
say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Maybe. But the
way to a man’s brain is through his ego.
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
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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.
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_5?s=booksandie=UTF8andqid=1304815980andsr=1-5
For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at
tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s twelve books are listed here:
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
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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