Random Thoughts for April
2020
By Robert A. Hall
Feel free to post or forward.
I’m posting this early, as I’m now working from home, and
have four interviews to do and write over the next three days.
The powers that all levels of government are assuming over
all our lives will not be relinquished when the crisis is over. Government
rarely relinquishes power, except to a revolution. Which often leads to a
greater tyranny.
Americans have been forcefully reminded that entertainment
celebrities, professional athletes, and Hollywood stars are not at all important,
while truckers, grocery store workers, farmers, and healthcare providers are vital.
From Col. Andy Weddington, USMC (ret.): Calm wins! Every.
Single. Time.
Democrats will do all they can to keep the markets down, the
economy shuttered, and people out of work, because they know if the economy
booms, Trump wins.
The Democrats are stealing the nomination from Bernie
Sanders again. Tell your progressives friends.
If they suddenly find a cure for COVID-19, gas will jump to
$2.50 a gallon, and toilet paper will drop to ten cents a roll.
Millennials: Trump doesn’t want you to know that drinking
your own urine will prevent Corona Virus. He and his top people drink a glass
every day, but he wants you to die so you won’t vote for Bernie.
On our recent vacation we saw “Corona Beer Sandals” in a convenience
story. I wonder how they are selling?
I didn’t think it would get this bad. The stock market is
back to Obama levels.
For a brief moment, it looked like the
Democrats were going to nominate the Unrepentant Commie. But they have united
behind Creepy Joe. I hope his growing senility hits before the election and not
after.
Masturbation: The original social distancing.
If the toilet paper runs out, I’ll
subscribe to the New Your Times.
There are already on-line and phone
scams to raise funds for "Coronavirus Research."
The three leading causes of death in the
US are heart disease, cancer and medical error. But I bet stupidity is in the
top ten.
Kids: The next shortage will be condoms,
as they use the latex in surgical gloves. Stock up now.
If the
Democrats nominated a JFK, they would carry 40 states. But they seem determined
to nominate a Lenin.
Voting for a
socialist is like giving a loaded gun to an eight-year-old. It might turn out
okay, but you wouldn’t chance it.
Predicting
elections is like predicting horse races. The favorite doesn’t always win.
One man’s
theology is another man’s blasphemy. Muslim calls to outlaw blasphemy are calls
to outlaw blasphemy against Islam. And they consider everything about
Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism blasphemy. And to Christians, the
Qur’an is blasphemy. Should it be outlawed?
Every day is
a chance to help someone else and add to your store of happiness. Don’t
squander it.
Contrary to
leftist ideology, Sweden not a socialist country. It’s a capitalist country
with a large social welfare system paid for by huge taxes on capitalist business
and working people, that are passed on to customers. That social welfare system
is why it is so attractive to people from the Middle East who believe that have
the right to live off the work of others. But mass immigration of people who
won’t work or assimilate is not sustainable.
You can’t
hoard bananas.
T-shirt at
the VA: “It’s called thinking. You should try it sometime.
Democracy has
been replaced by bureaucracy.
The worst sin
for a progressive is to still believe the same things she believed five years
ago.
The real
“Curse of Oak Island” is the millions of hours people have wasted watching that
show.
There’s a
little monster in a great many people, held in check by laws and culture. And
the progressives are trying to destroy both.
My mind used
to focus like a razor. Now it’s more like a candle in a light breeze. You’re
just hoping it doesn’t go out completely.
People get
addicted to lying the way druggies get addicted to drugs. And like druggies,
they need to tell ever-bigger lies to get the same jolt. Eventually, no one
believes or trusts them. Like they don’t believe or trust druggies.
There are the
driven and the drivers.
No amount of
privation, oppression, starvation, torture, and death will change progressives’
belief in a socialist utopia.
Alcohol reduces
sexual inhibitions. It’s one of the best things about it.
Mississippi
Billboard: “Be kind to strangers. Visit your in-laws.”
It’s a small
and dangerous step from progressivism to socialism to communism and the loss of
prosperity and freedom.
Annoy atheists.
Tell them you are praying for them.
In three
months, there will be a big market for tee shirts and bumper stickers saying, “I
Survived the Corona Virus.”
It’s
disconcerting to realize that today Barry Goldwater would be too liberal for
Republicans and John F. Kennedy too conservative for Democrats.
Some people
believe so fervently in their cause, that they lose any moral compass they had.
They will lie, steal, cheat, slander, defraud, destroy and even use violence
for the “Greater Good.” In the long run, they usually do their cause much more
harm than good.
Suppose you
did a survey of voters, asking if they were fervently for Bernie, or Biden, or
Trump. Then ask those who said yes, that if they were sure no one would know,
would they fix the election for their guy, or to defeat the perceived “evil”
guy? How many would throw Democracy under the bus?
From my
friend Todd: Ignorance
is bliss, only until we face the reality of decisions made in ignorance.
From the ‘Net: COVID stands for; “Chinese
Originated Viral Infectious Disease.” Funny, but not true. CO-Corona, VI-Viral,
D-Disease.
“Don't question your ability to teach
your child. Question putting your child into the same system that left you
feeling incapable of teaching your child.” - Anonymous
You think you
have problems? How’d you like to be Executive Director of the Wuhan Tourist
Board?
Both knives
and minds need regular honing.
Hall’s first
law of motion. A body at rest tends to remain at rest until it needs to go to
the bathroom.
Vulgarity is
now the coin of the realm.
To be a
journalist today, you must be steeped in the three Ps: Pen, Prejudice, and Poison.
When I
interview a veteran and they tell me their wife had a still birth, I notice
they say we lost the baby, not the fetus. And they tell me the baby’s name,
which I put in the story for them.
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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
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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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