Random Thoughts for June
2020
By Robert A. Hall
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Sorry this is late. Been in the VA Hospital. Was coughing up
a lot of blood Thursday, now settled down. It’s due to a growing fungal
infection in my old lung. I go in the VA again Monday to have it taken out.
Given that I’m 74 and immune suppressed from my lung transplant in 2013, this
is fairly risky. May not be a June Random Thoughts in July, and if it
goes bad, I’ll go dark.
However, I’ve made a career of beating the odds. They told
me I was two small and unathletic to be a Marine, but I was. Thy told me with
my high school grades, I had no chance in college, but I did well. They told me
that a Republican couldn’t win my 4-1 Democrat senate district. I served five
terms, retiring undefeated. They told me that with my history of, shall we say,
appreciating the ladies, my marriage would never last. It will be 28 years of
faithful marriage if I live to September. They told me a couple of the
associations I took over were hopeless. I turned them around, membership was
up, and they were all in the black. When I was Dx with pulmonary fibrosis in
2006, they said the average time to death was 3-5 years. They said when I had
the lung transplant in 2013 that 50% died in the first five years. The VA docs
thought I was checking out in May of 2014. And here I am. They said my working
days were over. But as a PT writer-editor for the VA, I’ve written 326 life
stories for vets in three years. Now this. But I tell people, “Don’t bet
against Bob Hall!”
Thanks to being born in a modern, free-market democracy, I’ve
lived longer and better and 99% of the people ever born. Thanks to my Marine Dis,
I’ve had a long, happy and successful like. So I have no complaints coming.
Note to friends on Facebook. I do not do messenger; I just
delete them.
Recent DNA tests show
that King Tut died of COVID-19
Nothing says “Back Lives
Matter” like white Antifa thugs burning down Low-Income Housing or destroying
businesses and putting black folks out of work.
Are Republicans looting and
burning down black businesses? Or is it the left?
Facebook is the best
non-prescription low blood medicine available
It must be hard being a fake all the time.
A great many of
the people rioting would have killed George Floyd for a $20 bag of drugs. But
that's different.
Any social
order that denies the existence of the sacred is better described as an
anti-culture. - Philip Reiff (Freud scholar)
“Ought to be”
and “is” are vastly different.
We will never
know how many people died due to Covid-19. We will never know how many died due
to easing of the lockdown. We
will never know how many died due to the lockdown. And we will never know how many hundreds of thousands were reduced to
poverty by the lockdown. But everyone will have an opinion.
A conservative Democrat
is now one who believes you shouldn’t kill babies after they are five days old.
Leaders eat last.
–Marine maxim.
Antifa are
enemies in a war against civilization. Past time to treat them as
enemies in this war they started.
There is no
situation that cannot be made worse by panic.
If Saint George
needed to slay the dragon today, he’d have to file an environmental impact
statement. Then he’d have to get a special dragon hunting permit from the
government. The media would get a hold of it, and PETA would lobby that dragons
were an endangered species. Th disarm-yourself lobby would get bills introduced
in Congress to ban assault swords or high-capacity lances. He would be trashed on
social media, and there would be a boycott of anyone who used his services. By
the time he got permission—if he did—the dragon would have destroyed several
villages and carried off countless maidens.
Some people ask
God for too much.
If Trump loses
in November, gun dales in the next two months will break all previous records.
Agenda-driven
journalism will be the downfall of the Republic.
I had a lucky
call today. I had no idea they’d been trying to get ahold of me because my car
warranty had expired.
I woke up early
and decided to make something good of the day. So, I went back to bed.
Pro tip: If you
want people to stay six feet away, don’t shower.
“They say,” is
a liar. Quoted in Mary Chestnuts Civil War.
“For a woman to
come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start
off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about
is real, whether or not she forgets facts, whether or not it’s been made worse
or better over time. But nobody fails to understand that this is like jumping
into a cauldron.” –Joe Biden
Being an adult
is not about driving, or voting, or drinking, or signing contracts, or having
sex. Being an adult is about accepting and fulfilling responsibilities. Too
many never do.
The next
internal Democrat debate will be about having large portraits of Lenin, Stalin
and Mao at their convention.
“They Say” is a
liar. Quoted in Mary Chestnuts Civil War.
There is a nice irony in rich progressives having vapors
over slavery in the old south, ended by Union troops like my Great Grandfather
Sgt. Oliver Vernal, over 150 years ago, and at the same time buying tons of
consumer good made by slave labor in China. Every society on earth was blighted
by slavery. Some people estimate there are more slaves in the world today than
ever before. It certainly was a stain on our American democracy, and we’d be a
better country today if not one slave had been brought to north America. But
you cannot improve the future by erasing or falsifying history.
Stop blaming others and take responsibility for your life.
If I croak during this COVID pandemic, I think they should
bury me now, then have a “Celebration of Good Riddance” later. I expect a big
turnout. As they say in Hollywood, “Give the people what they want and they
will come out.”
The last person who hated western civilization as much as
today’s progressives was named Adolf.
WHO needs new leadership, that’s not in any funder's pocket.
Death resolves all your issues.
The destroyers are loose, and civilization is losing.
There are good bacteria, that you need to live. But I’ve
never heard of a good virus. Or fungus except to make penicillin from.
The Nation of Islam puts the NOI in noisome.
I wonder what Casual Friday looks like at the Vatican.
It is not surprising that progressives have had little
comment on the ISIS attack on an Afghan maternity ward. They view killing
babies as “life affirming.”
Note to Obama and Company: Saepe Intereunt Aliis Meditantes
Necum.
Your second amendment rights: Best if used before the end of
the Trump administration.
It’s not that politicians don’t have principles. It’s that
for too many those principles are flexible, especially when it comes to taking
care of themselves and their families.
Gravity always wins.
Our grandfathers were made of sterner stuff.
If Trump said the Earth was round, Progressives and the
media would say it was flat. Moderate Democrats would say square.
If black lives
really mattered, they would be protesting the far higher number of black on
black murders. But that's not a chance to loot and riot.
If Nancy Pelosi filled a bill to spent $20 billion to dredge
the alimentary canal, every Democrat in congress would vote for it. And the
media would say that voting against it was racist.
Democrats
used to Have Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners. Haven't heard much about that
lately. Now they probably have Lenin-Mao dinners.
Bring back napalm.
This is all part of the new
mediocracy...government supporting all that is mediocre...as opposed to a
meritocracy, where the best rules. I’m taking credit for inventing this word,
and ask that it be used widely. –George
The so-called Green New Deal…is
less a legislative proposal and more a slop bucket into which almost any
leftwing proposal can be poured. –Kevin D. Williamson.
If a state legislature has
bought votes from state employees by increasing pension benefits that they didn’t
put the money aside for, they don’t need a bailout. If a state has the funds to
provide stimulus payments, healthcare, food, housing, Iftar dinners to Muslims,
etc. to people who are here illegally, they don’t need a bailout.
I do get tired of explaining
what “satire” means!
“Liberal violence is construed
as speech, and conservative speech is construed as violence.” --John James, former
Army aviator and ranger, black republican candidate fort the US senate from
Michigan.
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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
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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. During the
crisis he is working from home.
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