Random Thoughts for May
2019
By Robert A. Hall
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The country is full of people who love and honor and thank
veterans for their service, but who would do anything to keep their own kids
from wearing the uniform of the Republic.
Everybody thought 9/11 was Pearl Harbor. It wasn’t. It was
D-Day: A successful military operation that launched an invasion.
The fight for the Democratic nomination in 2020 is a quest to
out-bid your rivals in seeking the approbation of the economically ignorant.
If you want to get rich, invent a device that, when you get a
robo or spam call, will at the push of a button send an electric charge back
through the lines, destroying the robo equipment or giving live callers a nasty
shock. I’d buy one and that crap would stop.
The Mafia is organized crime. The Bureaucracy is legalized
crime.
God gave everyone free will. But he didn’t give everyone will
power.
The problem with “Routine Missions” is that they often
aren’t.
My life would be a lot happier if I’d get rid of half of my
stuff. It would be even happier if my wife would get rid of half of hers.
Life goes from tears to tears. The only respite is the smiles
you bring to others.
I’m old enough to remember when “factory outlet stores” were
attached to factories and offered good deals on seconds and overstocks, not in
malls asking full price.
Only in movies do monsters look like monsters. In real life,
they look just like other people.
Smoking doesn’t cause you to go to hell, but it makes it very
likely you will go through hell at the end of your life, which, on average,
will come ten years earlier.
From Andy Weddington: On a 3x5 in. index card posted in Vernon’s (grocery store) - Hope Town,
Bahamas: A tattoo is a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling.
If you fine a
goose that lays golden eggs, do not give it to progressives who want to tax the
rich 70% and destroy capitalism. You know how that story ends.
Chinese
proverb: “Average people learn from their own mistakes. Wise people learn from
the mistakes of others. Fools learn from neither.”
American
Universities: Turning students into socialist autotrons since 1965.
In politics as
I life, you see what you expect to see.
He’s as welcome
as the Monday morning alarm clock.
I saw a decal
on a car that said, “Mean people suck.” I wonder if a mean person ever read it
and said, “Whom, I didn’t know that. I think I’ll stop being mean.”
There is no such
thing as taking a quick look at Facebook.
The only thing
some people give their kids is a bad example.
“Britain's biggest export is
bureaucracy.” Tom Kratman, from his upcoming book, Terra Nova: Wars of
Liberation.
The worst job must be health
researcher. You’re afraid to eat anything and everybody ignores your findings
but you.
From Facebook: “To defend my
country was once called patriotism. Now it’s called racism.”
From Facebook: “Teachers should
wear body cams like police so parents could see how their children act.” This
assumes the parents care.
"Self-esteem is NOT the same as
self-respect. One can have high self-esteem while having little or no
self-respect. The two should not be confused". ~ Aris Toddle
According to AOC, the Earth only has 12
years left due to global warming. Al Gore has been saying that for 30 years.
Since Sen. Kamala Harris is in favor of
reparations, my friend Chuck suggests we call her “Reparation H.”
From a Facebook Meme: “According to
liberals, a baby born on American soil to illegal immigrant parents is an
American citizen, with all the rights of citizenship, as soon as it draws
breath. But a baby who survives an abortion on American soil is not a citizen,
has no rights, and must be killed immediately.”
I hear they are opening a new store here
in Madison, Wisconsin. “Cross-Dress for Less.”
Moderates get savaged by both sides, so
you might as well pick a side and be as extreme as everyone else. Then half
will love you and the other half won’t hate you any worse.
Many people will do anything for money.
Except work.
Wearing a cute outfit doesn’t make a
girl cute, any more than wearing camouflage makes a guy a warrior.
Why do they call them waiters when we do
the waiting?
We like to drive to the Sportsmen’s Pub
in Lake Mills. About 20 miles and they have excellent half pound hamburgers for
$3. We were there recently when the TV in front of us came on with, “Keeping up
with the Kardashians.” I asked the barmaid to change the channel. I was afraid
watching it would cost us 20 IQ points.
If drivel had a street value, Madison
would be one of the wealthiest cities in the world.
“This early experience (the Mexica War)
made Grant tend to view war as a hard-luck saga of talented, professional
soldiers betrayed by political opportunists plotting back in Washington.” –Ron
Chernow, “Grant,” P50.
Tee shirt suggestion: Hogwarts Dropout.
I’m surprised that the left hasn’t
suggested Affirmative Action for professional golfers, to increase diversity,
and make up for slavery when blacks didn’t have the chance to play golf.. Black
golfers could take ten stokes off their scores. If they had one white parent,
they could only take five strokes off.
A hang over is God’s way of telling you
that tomorrow always comes.
“The heart of the matter is the way
public debt allows current generation of voters to live at the expense of those
as yet to young to vote or as yet unborn.” –Niall Ferguson, The Great Degeneration.
There are no human rights without
property rights. (Go ahead, name a country with poor property rights and great
human rights.) And there are no property rights without the rule of law and
contract enforcement.
It’s easy to spot the real haters in a
progressive enclave. They have the “Love Trumps Hate” bumper stickers.
Saw a black vet at the VA with a MAGA
hat. He better be careful, white progressives will declare he’s not
“authentically black.” It’s apparently not racist to demand that all black
folks think alike.
When I meet someone studying their smart
phone while walking, I greet them with a hardy, “Hello. How are you doing?” It
discombobulates them wonderfully to be pulled rudely back to reality.
We are all piqued when the private
perversions of the prominent are made public.
Young men talk about their sex lives.
Middle aged men talk about their jobs. Old men talk about their health.
Being a parent is a tough,
time-consuming, demanding job. You must dispense love and discipline every day.
But if you don’t do it right, you and your kids will pay a terrible price down
the line.
“If liberty means anything at all, it
means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” –George Orwell.
Various left-wing pundits keep bemoaning
that Israel’s actions endanger the chances for a Palestinian State. The
Palestinians DO NOT WANT a separate state. They have been offered one several
times. They want to destroy Israel, kill all the Jews, and make the country
into a poverty-ridden Shari’a hellhole.
Being innumerate is as crippling as
being illiterate.
It seems like some people only crawl out
of the sewer for the pleasure of diving back in.
You don’t hear about the college
students who spent spring break studying or working to make money for school,
instead of partying. But they will have better, more affluent lives.
From the Net: “Life is not a fairy tale.
If you lose your shoe at midnight, you’re drunk.”
There are a great many rich politicians
and celebrities calling for us to accept all illegal immigrants into the
country. But I’m not aware of one who has accepted an illegal immigrant family into
their own homes.
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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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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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