Random Thoughts for November
2019
By Robert A. Hall
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Many people are desperate to find solutions to problems they made
themselves.
I think California should order the walls in gated communities and gated
homes torn down because they are undemocratic.
Every day we have little tasks (take out the trash, clean up after the
pets, do the laundry, etc.) which are not edifying, but are time consuming. If
you don’t do them, your life turns to crap.
Saw a tee shirt: It takes a secure man to buy his wife a gun.
Dealing with bureaucracy is like wading through molasses.
When socialist planners put their fingers in the economy, things always
get worse for average folks. Eventually much worse.
I wish I had the money to live in
NYC, SF or LA. I don’t want to live there, but I wish I had that kind of money.
Tee shirt: Someday, where
scientists discover the center of the universe, many people will be
disappointed to find it’s not them.
Thrift shops like Goodwill are
overrun with glass vases that come from florists. People think they are too
good to throw away, but not good enough to keep.
When I was in high school, I was
dying to have a leather jacket, like my friends had. They cost over $100, which
was like $500 today. I lived with my grandmother in a one-bedroom apartment,
slept on a pullout couch. Way out of our price range. My friend Charles lent me
a German one his dad brought back from WWII. Today (October 6, 2019) I bought
two nice ones at a flea market for $5 each. Will give them away as I have five
already. Wish I could ship one back to the 16-year-old Bob.
Don’t let dread
of winter ruin your enjoyment of autumn. Don’t let dread of death ruin your enjoyment
of life.
A sport coat
covers a multitude of sins. And a 9mm very nicely.
The spirit is
willing, but the flesh is wrecked.
I told the VA
director he should have signs put inside the stalls in staff area bathrooms: “This
is not a booth for checking phone messages.” Be good in a lot of stores too.
The only “sanctions”
that work are delivered by B-52s. Or boots on the ground.
Politicians
of all stripes feather their own nests and take care of their families, friends
and paramours. Partisans of both sides claim only the other party does it.
Sometimes you
have to stand alone.
If we had a
balanced media, Democrats wouldn’t stand a chance.
People seek geographical solutions to internal problems.
There is no such thing as a corruption-free government. People always
seek to improve their circumstances, and that of their families and friends. Legally
when they can, but often illegally. Government officials have more opportunity
to do that illegally. Which is why one-party dictatorships always have more
corruption than democracies, be they right wing, socialist or Islamic. Those
who would call them out are shot, or silenced by fear.
Baking from a boxed cake mix is like wearing a clip-on bow tie.
I may be old, but I can still put in a hard day’s work. It
just takes me about three weeks to do that day.
When I drop something, I have to think if it’s worth the pain
of bending over to pick it up, or if I should just leave it there.
Why would the Devil make deals for souls when masses of
people are determined to go to him anyway?
I suppose it’s true that too much money can ruin you, but I
think I could tolerate a few hundred thousand more.
Progressives are a cancer on the body politic, and like a
cancer in the human body, will kill the host if not excised.
My “get it done now” imperative can create more work for me.
If I write a note that needs to go on my desk for action later, I tend to take
it to the desk now, even though I’ll be going in there in a bit.
Every treasure you’ve built up will be stolen by that
relentless thief, time.
Many of the people now who thank Vietnam vets for their
service are the people (or their kids) who spit on the vets when they came home
from Nam.
It costs so little to be kind, helpful, nice, and polite, and
pays off so well.
My wife’s super power is the ability to not notice clutter at
all.
People often judge bananas by their appearance, not their
contents. They judge other people the same way.
People are expected to choose a mate, a career and political
leaders at an age when they aren’t competent to choose a brand of beer.
They Democrats are the party of the Free Rider. Many of them
don’t vote, but once they have a solid majority of Free Riders, the Democrats
will win all the elections. Until the country collapses in fiscal ruin. Keep
your powder dry.
There must be a Progressive Academic Award for the
progressive professor who identifies the most previously-undiscovered sources or
examples of racism in a year.
In the 1940s, college students weren’t afraid of the Nazi and
Japanese armies and joined the military in droves. Now college students are
afraid of ideas, and band together to drive speakers who might say something
they disagree with off campus.
Every time the techies “improve” a website or program, they make it
harder to use and less intuitive. I now find it almost impossible to use
MapQuest and Google Maps. They’ve “improved” several programs I use at work,
making them harder to use.
I have several shot glasses, but I don’t know why. I measure whisky and
other liquors by sight.
If you love heroin, you cannot love a person. They are just objects to be
used or discarded.
Many people dream. Few accomplish.
From an email: Brandolini's law states that: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit
is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
Some early Christians believed in
mortifying the flesh. Some churches today believe in mortifying the eardrums
with rock music played at a decibel level that would melt glass.
Everyone has a monster hidden
inside. The evil people have let it take over their lives.
“He meant well,” is the epitaph of
every socialist who condemned millions to oppression, privation, starvation,
and extermination in pursuit of the chimera of a socialist utopia.
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“Random Thoughts” from 2009 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
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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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