Random Thoughts for October
2021
Robert A. Hall
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Health Update: My new hip is doing okay, still hurts
from time to time and I have trouble putting my right sock on. But I can walk
without pain, so all good.
Big problem right now is I had a large cyst removed from my back. Had one removed there about 30 years ago, and it was fine. This one produces constant pain. I can’t lean against it in a car seat or chair or sleep on my back. Saturday, we were at a block party in our neighbor’s yard. It bleed through the bandage, my shirt and left a big blood stain on the chair pad. Went to the VA ER. They gave me new dressings and said I had to let the body do it’s work. The body better get on the stick! Have a surgery consult Tuesday morning. We will see. It bled through the bandage again today.
I’m still in
Facebook jail, at least for 30 days. They said they don’t allow posts selling
guns, knives or drugs. I didn’t post any such. I went on my I-phone and it said
their community standards don’t allow posts about suicide or hurting yourself..
I didn’t post anything about that either. I requested a review. So far, crickets.
“Don’t think of it as a surrender. Think of it as a mask
mandate for Afghan women.” –NR
There Are Still Americans Trapped in
Afghanistan. Because
it should be repeated every day until it is resolved, more than three weeks
after the last U.S. soldier departed Afghanistan, an unknown number of American
citizens, an unknown but considerable number of U.S. green-card holders, and
more than 100,000 Afghan allies who qualified for Special Immigrant Visas
remain trapped in Afghanistan, despite the president’s promise that, “If
there’s American citizens left, we’re gonna stay to get them all out.” --Jim Geraghty 9/23/21
“It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty
and how few by deceit. –Noel Coward
In the administrative state civil servants “Are no longer
servants and no longer civil.” –Churchill
"If you are going down, go down fighting. your status
in hell is determined by how many side boys you send ahead to announce your
coming." -Robert A. Heinlein
In truly Socialist Countries, sooner or later the government
becomes the enemy of the people.
Margaret Thatcher is famous for saying, “This is no time to
go wobbly.” Joe Biden was born wobbly.
“If you make 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for
the law.” –Churchill
Dame Leslie-Anne ----, KT was on my Facebook friends list,
but she unfriended me. Maybe I’m too common? But hey, Princes M… and Tracy the
Saint are still hanging in there.
“Our officers
and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.” –Major General “Mad”
Anthony Wayne. Are Americans today still “Determined to be free”?
Remember how we
panicked when we couldn't find any toilet paper? What are we going to do
when we can't find a cop? –From the net.
DEFUND THE NFL
& NBA: Don't watch. Don't go. Don't buy. Don't
discuss. It's Not About Football or Basketball Anymore. --From the
net.
As a rule,
ungrateful people are unhappy people.
We are losing
several hundred dead a year in Chicago. We didn’t lose an American in
Afghanistan in the 18 months before Biden decided to pull out. We pulled out of
the wrong place!
Have we yet
learned that negotiating with terrorists is futile and leads only to dead
Americans?
They say pick
your battles. But often your battles pick you.
If you pray for
God to send someone to vanquish evil, do not be surprised to wake with a sword
in your hand.
On Saturday, 9/4,
we decided to go to the Wisconsin Highland games only to discover they were cancelled
for “Infrastructure Problems.” Since we were dressed and half way there we
decided to go to the Bristol Ren Feste for the second time in three weeks. It
was fun and little Dale loved it; Bonnie bought him two wooden battle axes. I
got exhausted walking around on the uneven ground. I really got weak in the
last year as arthritis prevented me exercising. A fellow recognized my
Leatherneck Tartan and said Semper Fi. He has two kilts in it, and his young
son was wearing a kilt in the tartan. He said when he was deployed to Iraq, a
SgtMaj. Green used to wake them playing the bagpipes and wearing his
Leatherneck Tartan kilt. Great way to celebrate our 29th
anniversary, which was September 5th.
Saw a tee shirt on a young woman: “I love female orgasm.”
Indeed.
Have had my Moderna COVID booster. Made me feel old and
tired (LOL—I’m 75)
I think “Woke” is Zombie Apocalypse they have been warning
us about.
Tee shirt at “Pints and Politics”: Everything woke turns to
shit.
Mary Seales: "Those who are afraid
to fight will be eaten by those who are not afraid.
David Azerrad’s
definition of courage: “Bold and principled defiance of the lies of the age.”
I understand that
there are about 400 coal-fired electricity plants in construction in the world
now, mostly in China and India. And Biden is going sto stop global warming with
electric cars?
The more pictures
I see of animals in costumes, the less I’m inclined to do it to ours.
Based on recent
experience, the country is a lot better off. Better off than it will be in a
year or two.
“There is no
cause so hopeless, no creed so mad, no idea so ludicrous that it will not
attract some believers. –Bernard Cornwell, The Death of Kings, sixth
book in his great Saxon Tales series.
Facial piercings don’t make you look attractive or sexy.
They make you look stupid.
The thought may be as bad as the deed, but it sure isn’t as
much fun.
“What, then has
education been doing to our civilization? The very concept of IQ, of
Intelligence Quotient, of the Stanford-Benet test and things similar, is, as
its critics argue, a cultural construct – less a measure of potential than of
capacities already developed. No surprise that persons growing up in
environments that stimulate and enable the development of human possibilities
do in fact develop more of these. Some studies suggest that the complex of what
each generation conveyed to the next made those generations more
intellectually/morally potent than their predecessors though the early
twentieth century, but that this process has reversed itself over about a half
century and average IQ has dropped by some 14 points. The decline seems to have
come at the top of our civilizational pyramid. Speculation about the causes is
less relevant than noting the effects.”
--Angelo Codevilla (RIP)
Saying “to be
honest” sounds like you aren’t always but are making an exception in this case.
“A misrepresented constitution is nothing more than a
political weapon. And a very attractive one for any faction that discovers
rights and privileges for itself.” –Erik Hildinger, Swords against the
Senate. (About the Fall of the Roman Republic.)
We are headed towards anarchy and anarchy is almost always
followed by dictatorship.
The Roman Republic was not a republic, and certainly not a
democracy. It was an oligarchy where the wealthy patricians and nobles held
power and benefited from the use of the state. Rather like the US today.
66% of college
students say shouting down speakers is actually free speech, according to a poll of 37,000
students at 159
top-ranked colleges and universities. Another 23% believe it is appropriate to
use violence to cancel speech. –Blaska’s Blog
On March 8, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci told 60
Minutes, “Right now, in the United States, people should
not be walking around wearing a mask. There’s no reason to be walking around
with a mask.”
Now that I’m no longer employed by the VA as a writer-editor
in My Life, My Story, I just filled at seven forms to volunteer with the
program. I wish that the
president, senators, and Congresscritters were this well vetted!
Courage is also
spelled ... a c t i o n. –Andy Weddington
My cat thinks
the purpose of life is to sleep. At 75, I’m starting to agree with her.
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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
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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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