Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Random Thoughts for June

 

Random Thoughts for June, 2022

Robert A. Hall

Feel free to post or forward.

 

Health Update: I’ve been doing well lately. Walking around the block with the dog, sleeping well (had a sleep study and the kept my BiPAP at low pressure). May be able to go into the VA to do interviews. Till need the cane as my balance is bad.

 

And just like that, it was summer in Wisconsin. In one week it went from high 40s to the high 80s/low 90s, and the leaves and  flowers popped out.

 

If you think KGB Agent Putin can be deterred, you probably know nothing about the famine the Russian communists created in the Ukraine in the 1930s, to suppress potential rebellion in the area, at a cost of an estimated 14M lives (compared to the 6M Jews murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust). Leftwing progressives denied it happened until the truth came out after the collapse of the USSR--since then they just ignore it, meaning that everyone knows about the Holocaust, though it is denied by Muslims and Neo-Nazis, but few know about the Ukraine Famine.

http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/ukraine_famine.htm http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/ukraine_famine.html

 

The situation in Ukraine is very troubling for liberals, who are desperately looking for a way to blame it on Israel, Trump, Global Warming or Racism.

Pregnant men are outraged at the leaked decision to overturn roe.

 

Ben Franklin was postmaster of the colonies. Despite having greatly improved the mails, his enemies in England got him fired for his political views. Cancel culture has a long history.

 

I personally advocated for a very old earth/universe (current estimates are above 14 billion), where human beings are on a pathway to maturity in Christ through the centuries, and the great flood was a regional flood in a location that experienced many massive floods. Even though views like these have been around for centuries, American popular Christianity seems to be near bullied by Young Earth Creationist groups outlawing such perspectives. ~ Pastor Isaac Fleming

 

The problem with saying that health care is a human right is that healthcare is unlimited. I could have a nurse here 24 hours and a doctor stop by every day. Great healthcare, but is that everyone’s right? Who could afford it?

 

I’m not the black sheep of my family. Maybe dark gray through.

 

You get what you get, not what you deserve.

 

To be a liberal, you must be for "The Poor," while being for policies that makes the poor destitute through high energy costs, high food costs and lack of jobs at the entry level.

 

“Pardoning the Bad is injuring the Good.” ~ Ben Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1748

 

“Patience is a virtue” they say. But for how long? ~ RAH

 

Do transgender dogs squat or hike their leg to pee?

 

At 76, I feel like I’m in a battle, with good friends regularly dying all around me. I continue to march.

 

“Printers are educated in the belief that when men differ in opinion, both sides aught to have the advantage of being heard by the public, and that when truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.” ~ Ben Franklin. (Editorial explaining why his paper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, published opinion pieces from both sides.)

 

Clever wins more battles than courage.

 

The people who started a government board to combat “misinformation” believe that men can have babies.

 

“Politics is the means for men without principles to lead men without memory.” ~ Voltaire

 

The prospects for a “two-state solution” are zero since one state wants to exterminate the other.

 

You can’t call Biden a liberal. He’d have to move sharply to the right to qualify.

 

When I return a call and the receptionist says, “May I tell him why you’re calling?” I’m always tempted to say, “Yeah. I’m his bookie and he’s late on his payment, which ain’t healthy.” I haven’t. Yet. So I say, “Beats me. He called me.”

 

Fill up your gas tank just before you go to vote.

 

Don’t mow the dandelions. They are pretty and good for bees.

 

Obama blamed Bush when gas went to $1.84 a gallon. Can we get Bush back to do this again?

 

I’m old enough to remember when Obama was against gay marriage and Dick Chaney was for it.

 

Anyone on a fixed income who votes Democrat deserves to starve. And likely will.

 

Working on my genealogy. I appear to be descended from Geoffroi "the incompetent"

 

The must-have electronic gizmo for Americans suffering from Bidenflation is the new iBroke.

 

You can say a lot of mean things about President Biden, but “overqualified for the job” isn’t one of them.

 

If the President had to put gas in the White House limo out of his own pocket, I bet he’d have approved the job-creating Keystone Pipeline.

 

Some wives call their husband, “The other half.” Mine thinks of me as, “The dark side.”

 

When politicians can no longer tax or borrow enough money to pay for all the things they promised, they print money, causing hyper-inflation. It’s coming, friends. (I first posted this in 2012!)

 

When I was a State Senator, they were going to name a street after me, but they realized no one crosses Bob Hall and lives.

 

At 76, not only are a lot of good people I know no longer around, but a lot of places I know aren’t there anymore.

 

Biden’s energy policy: Pound the Poor at the Pumps.

 

True “Rights” are indivisible. I get equally as much freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly as Warren Buffet, George Soros, John Kerry, Liz Warren, Michael Moore, Barack Obama or other “One Percenter” liberals. But if health care, education, food, shelter, etc. are “rights,” everyone should get as much as those rich folks. We don’t and never will, because they are “goods,” not “rights.”

 

I told my wife I don’t believe in special treatment for Gays. They should have to get married and suffer like the rest of us. She was not amused.

 

In Second Grade, my class put on a Christmas Play. This was, obviously, before Political Correctness stabbed its nihilistic knife into the heart of our culture. In a clear example of type casting, the teacher selected me, without discussion, to be the villain, a bad little elf who screwed up Christmas by, for example, making the train run backwards. My parents said I had all the other kids’ lines memorized as well. After this triumph, I retired from the stage.

 

Afghanistan. Once a "war of necessity; a war we must win" according to Obama, it is now the future home of the next ISIS province. You read it here first. ~ RAH (I published this on my blog in April, 2015.)

 

After going to two funerals of friends younger than me, I told my wife that I don’t want a luncheon after my funeral. I want a Scotch tasting. That should increase turnout.

 

I can’t believe that changing the name of the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians hasn’t stopped minorities from shooting each other.

 

We went to our grandson’s grade school for “Wax Museum” day. (He was Harley & Davidson) On the wall was a homemade campaign poster: “Elect Shelly S. Student Council President. No bullying guaranteed.” Campaign promises start early!

 

Political correctness: The elevation of sensitivity over truth. ~ Bill Maher

 

Cats and dogs are no more amenable to reason than people are.

 

I read that Israel has no problem with school shootings, despite frequent attacks by Jihadists. And I read they have armed guards at every school.

 

Worst school attack on children in history: Bath School disaster, 1927
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
The attacks killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults, and injured at least 58 other people. (Not done with guns.)

 

It's not just the US. 16 schoolchildren and a teacher in Dunblane, Scotland, were shot dead in  their school 26 years ago.

 

"The conservative worldview is grounded in the past. It can therefore be verified. The primary arguments are about what should be eliminated and what should be amended or strengthened. This is not an exciting agenda. The progressive worldview is grounded in the future, which means it is not grounded in any verifiable reality. The arguments are, therefore, about desirability rather than feasibility. To oppose the resultant programs is thus to deny the desirability of the identified end, or in other words to desire its opposite. This is the formula for demonization,  and why progressives resort to it so readily." ~ Rev Alison Bucklin

 

The Democrats have managed to bring back the 1918 pandemic, the 1929 depression, the 1968 race riots and the 1973 gas prices - all at the same time. ~ From the ‘Net

 

“The (Bagpipe) noise was like that a man might make if he was being skinned alive, but it seemed to fill the enemy with fear just as it inspired the Scots to slaughter.” ~ Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe’s Revenge

 

 

Get the collection! My “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

http://www.amazon.com/Old-Jarheads-Journal-Thoughts-Leadership/dp/1490500162/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksandie=UTF8andqid=1373907206andsr=1-1andkeywords=Old+Jarhead%27s+Journal

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 heads explode. All royalties are donated to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund.

 

*****

 

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 volunteers as a writer-editor in the My Life, My Story program as the Madison VA hospital, interviewing vets and writing up their life histories.

Starbuck cup size scam

Not sure true, have seen debunked other places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWVQFtYpGnY

Muslim migrant who plotted to kill Bush entered US on tourist visa, stayed on bogus asylum claim

 Muslim migrant who plotted to kill Bush entered US on tourist visa, stayed on bogus asylum claim

https://robertspencer.org/2022/05/muslim-migrant-who-plotted-to-kill-bush-entered-us-on-tourist-visa-stayed-on-bogus-asylum-claim

Sunday, May 29, 2022

Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi arrested, charged with DUI in California

 Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi arrested, charged with DUI in Californiahttps://www.msn.com/en-https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nancy-pelosis-husband-paul-pelosi-arrested-charged-with-dui-in-california/ar-AAXRqZ44

These schools say arming teachers ‘can be done right’

 

These schools say arming teachers ‘can be done right’


Saturday, May 28, 2022

Fall of Constantinople

 http://vaviper.blogspot.com/2017/05/may-29-1453-fall-of-constantinople.html

The May 29 is the anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Muslim Crusade, destroying the Eastern Roman Empire, and turning their holy places into mosques. 

The Myth That the US Leads the World in Mass Shootings

 The Myth That the US Leads the World in Mass Shootings

Citizens defending themselves

 Citizens with weapons regularly defend themselves or others from dangerous criminals, but those events never get widespread coverage.  Check out the report below.  And while this version doesn't go into all the details, the man with the rifle shooting at the party was a convicted criminal with no legal right to have any firearm.  The woman who stopped him didn't wait 40 minutes for a SWAT team to arrive, didn't back away, she did what was needed at the time.  Maybe that little TX town should hire her to replace the cops they have now.

 
That such things do happen doesn't answer all the problems we have with bad people and too many guns, but at least the other side of the story needs to be seen.
 
Del
 

Friday, May 27, 2022

Protect Schools

 If Democrats Cared About School Shootings, They’d Protect Schools. BY DANIEL GREENFIELD

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Worst school attack on children in US history

 Worst school attack on children in US history

Bath School disaster, 1927
The attacks killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults, and injured at least 58 other people. (Not with guns.)

Hate Crimes

 Using Tragedy for Racial Propaganda

After the horror in Buffalo, President Biden and others peddle an entirely false charge: that whites are the biggest source of hate crime and interracial violence in the U.S. By Heather Mac Donald
Excerpt: In New York City, from 2010 to 2020, blacks were 2.42 times as likely as whites to commit a hate crime, among hate-crime suspects whose race and ethnicity were known. Blacks in Los Angeles committed anti-Asian hate crimes at 4.8 times the rate of whites in 2021, according to internal LAPD data. Blacks in L.A. committed anti-gay hate crimes at seven times the rate of whites, and anti-Semitic hate crimes at 2.4 times the rate of whites, among hate-crime suspects whose race and ethnicity were known. Blacks committed anti-trans hate crimes at 2.5 times the rate of Hispanics; there were no white suspects in anti-trans hate crimes in L.A. in 2021.

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Evers

 Evers drops another $2.2 million from campaign slush fund

Sunday, May 22, 2022

along for the pride

 New Rule: Along for the Pride | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Thursday, May 19, 2022

free book

 Download this book by Dr. Thomas Sowell

https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/Sowell_TrickleDown_FINAL.pdf

Corrupt BLM

 Corrupt BLM Co-Founder Paid Close Friends and Family MILLIONS

The Cycles of Revolutions in Our Midst by Victor Davis Hanson

 The Cycles of Revolutions in Our Midst by Victor Davis Hanson

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Murders

 US records largest annual increase in murders in six decades

Every murder is a "hate crime" to the victim's family.
Except: Stark racial disparities in who is most at risk of being murdered continued into 2020: Black Americans, who make up about 14% of the population, represented more than half of the 2020 victims whose race was known. But the number of murders also increased sharply across racial groups. Compared with 2019, the number of white males murdered rose 27%, while the number of Black males murdered rose 31%, according to data on the victims whose race was recorded. Of the nearly 5,000 additional murder victims in 2020, at least 1,200 were white, while at least 2,400 were Black.

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

California Shooter

 California Church Shooter Was a Chinese Immigrant Motivated by Hate for Taiwanese

Sunday, May 15, 2022

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H. W. Brands

 

Book Recommendation

 

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H. W. Brands

https://smile.amazon.com/First-American-Times-Benjamin-Franklin/dp/0385495404/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2JPBA9URZDBDJ&keywords=the+first+american+h.w.+brands&qid=1652630953&s=books&sprefix=The+First+American%2Cstripbooks%2C108&sr=1-1

You would have to be particularly ignorant not to know of Ben Franklin, but how much do you know? At over 700 pages, this well-researched and well-written biography will fill in all the gaps. Franklin was an in venter (bifocals, the lighting rod, the franklin stove), an international-famous polymath, a diplomat who had much to do with the establishment of the united States, a political leader, a member of the Constitutional convention, organized of militia companies and firefighting units, builder of forts on the frontier, and of course a printer, published, and prolific writer. The only person I can think of today of his intellectual statue is Thomas Sowell, PhD. This book will also educate you in many aspects of early American history. I highly recommend it.

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Saturday, May 14, 2022

Democrat County Supervisor Indicted on 82 Count of Voter Fraud!

 Democrat County Supervisor Indicted on 82 Count of Voter Fraud!

Adkins speaks out about 82 felony charges against him
(Had a bad link on the first story.)

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Sunday, May 8, 2022

Harvard

 Harvard president refuses to condemn string of anti-Semitic incidents on campus

Saturday, May 7, 2022

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Random Thoughts for May, 2022

 

Random Thoughts for May, 2022

Robert A. Hall

Feel free to post or forward.

 

Health Update: Lots of little things going on at the VA. Seems to me I may need a left hip replacement. Sigh. FEV numbers were down, but bounced back when I stopped using the wedge pillow. I suspect the wedge pillow they gave me was causing sinus draining into my lung. Got my second COVID booster. Web tells me I died a month ago because of that. Have a sleep study on 5/13 & I am doing a routine to improve my swallowing (which seemed fine to me!)

 

Working on a new book to be called “Words to Live By: Quotes for the Conservative Heart”

 

If you want respect, be respectful. –George S.

 

If the US goes down, it will be because it supped from the poisoned challis of progressivism

 

A true leader is calm in crisis. (So, alas, is someone with no idea what’s going on!)

 

When things feel overwhelming, remember: One thought at a time, one task at a time, one day at a time. -- From the net

 

A damn wet (and snowy) spring.

 

American Literacy:

1. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), 21 percent of adults in the United States (about 43 million) fall into the illiterate/functionally illiterate category. Apr 29, 2020

 

2. The average American is considered to have a readability level equivalent to a 7th/8th grader (12 to 14 years old). This level is actively used as a benchmark for written guidelines in the medical industry. Mar 22, 2017

 

3. The share of Americans who report not reading any books in the past 12 months has fluctuated over the years the (Pew Research) Center has studied it. The 23% of adults who currently say they have not read any books (not even a junk novel) in the past year is identical to the share who said this in 2014. (This is scary. I read 4-5 books a month. And we wonder at the political mess we are in. ~Bob)

 

Neither a fortress nor a maidenhead will hold out long if they begin to parlay. ~ Ben Franklin

 

“The best thing about the Good Old Days was that I wasn’t good and I wasn’t old.” –Tee shirt

 

“The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.”  -JFK

 

The US doesn’t have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem. Like my family.

 

“When there are men who lack honor, there are always others who have within themselves the honor of many men.” -Jose Marti

 

The left is always propping up authoritarian theocracies they wouldn’t want to live under themselves.

 

When they say, “Build Back Better,” I still hear, “Stand and Deliver!”

 

If it wasn’t for people wanting to get money out of us, we wouldn’t get any mail at all.

 

If you voted for Biden, you’re not a victim, you’re an accomplice.

 

Woke culture will make “Gender Reveal” parties obsolete.

 

You may not like big business, but if it wasn’t for their potential to produce arms in the 1940s, you’d be speaking German or Japanese.

 

I got a call from “Spam Risk” today. I was afraid they’d forgotten me. Of course, “Lisa” calls every day to talk about Medicare coverage. She better hope I never find her.

 

Leadership is not what you say. It’s what you do. –Winsome Earle-Sears, VA. Lt. Governor, Marine Vet.

 

I hope Musk goes on to buy Facebook.

 

Where is Guy Fawkes now that we need him?

 

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech” –Ben Franklin at 16, writing under the pen name Silence Dogood.

 

“All citizens undoubtedly in all respects should be equal.” President U.S. Grant speaking to a black delegation from Philadelphia.

 

There have been few wars where all participants didn’t think God was on their side.

 

Force shits on reason’s back. ~ Ben Franklin

 

If the COVID Vaccine is controversial, so was smallpox inoculation in the 18th century.

 

Try as they will, they cannot repeal the law of supply and demand.  

 

“If you would keep your secret from an enemy, don’t tell a friend.” ~ Ben Franklin

 

The solution in the Ukraine? Just declare it a nuclear-free zone.

 

The road behind me gets longer every day. The road ahead shorter.

 

Get the collection! My “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

http://www.amazon.com/Old-Jarheads-Journal-Thoughts-Leadership/dp/1490500162/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksandie=UTF8andqid=1373907206andsr=1-1andkeywords=Old+Jarhead%27s+Journal

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 heads explode. All royalties are donated to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund.

 

*****

 

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 volunteers as a writer-editor in the My Life, My Story program as the Madison VA hospital, interviewing vets and writing up their life histories.