Random Thoughts for May, 2023
Robert A. Hall
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I turned
77 on April 15th. How the hell did that happen?
Also on
Saturday, April 15, it was in the 80s here. Sunday night to Monday morning, we
got two inches of snow. Welcome to Wisconsin!
Woke progressive Janet Protasiewicz won the open Wisconsin Supreme Court
race, with a LOT of out-of-state dark money, giving the left a majority on the
court and putting in jeopardy everything from concealed carry, to act 110 (repeal
of which will increase property taxes), to babies’ lives. For her the
Constitution is an inconvenient obstacle. Maybe it’s time to move south?
Liberal
judge’s guide: If I like it, it’s constitutional. If not, it’s not.
“To
endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
“In our
sick society, the targeted victims become the political victimizers.” ~ Victor
Davis Hanson.
“Americans check their phones an average of 344 times per day or about
once every four minutes. When you factor in sleep time it’s more like at least
once every three minutes. In total, people spend about three hours a day
staring at their phone on average. On a yearly basis, this means the average
American is staring at their phone for 44 full days a year (again, this is
without even factoring in sleep time, so call it 60 or 70 days a year). Seventy-one
percent of people look at their phones within 10 minutes of waking up, and 74%
say they can’t leave their phone at home without feeling uneasy. It’s hard to
look at these numbers and call it anything but an addiction. Given the long
list of problems in America today, people are not talking enough about this
device addiction.” ~ Neil
Patel
Anyone who
advocates the murder of people because of their political opinions should be
paid in the same coin.
“Avoid
references to a transgender person being born a boy or girl.” ~ AP
style guide
If honesty is
its own reward, voting for liberals is its own punishment. Unfortunately, the
rest of us get punished as well.
The inditement
isn’t intended to convict Trump for the same thing Bill
Clinton did, but to torpedo his 2424 election chances.
“A
generation which ignores history has no past—and no future.” ~ Robert A.
Heinlein
Politicians
are prone to taradiddle.
“He thinks
too much, such men are dangerous.” ~ Shakespeare
“Treason
doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
~ John Harington's Epigrams
of the early 17th century. There is much going on with politicians, activists,
business leaders, and celebrities in the United States that would be called “treason,”
if anyone dared
If you say,
“Well, to be honest,” it sounds like you usually aren’t but are making an
excepting this time.
I read
that women who have the same education and experience as men, and work the same
hours, make on the average more than men. As someone said, if women can do the
same work cheaper and as well as men, why do companies not hire all women?
If you mix
politics with business, expect to lose the business of those who disagree with
your politics.
“The word
Fascism now has no meaning, except in so far as it signifies something not
desirable.” ~ George Orwell, 1945
“(Fascism)
has no valid meaning except as a term of abuse.” ~ Retired University of
Wisconsin history professor Stanley Payne
Hostile
environment? The military trains people to go into hostile environments.
“The switch
from the Ice Age to Global Warming was one of those Eastasia-Eurasia war
bulletins; there wasn’t even a period of Global Stability in between, it
seemed.” ~ James Lileks
When someone
says, “Mistakes were made,” always ask “By who?” (Or is it “By Whom”?)
Ronald Reagan
famously said, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it's
never more than one generation away from extinction.” I think that generation
has now grown to adulthood.
Racial
discrimination is now called “equity.”
(In the
face of declining birthrates) “The future belongs to those who show up.” ~
National Review.
The
country has more material wealth than ever before, but grows spiritually poorer
every day.
“Trust
the science (if verifiable). Never trust the politics of the scientists.” ~
Christine Rosen
It takes
a wise and strong person not to overdo a good thing.
“Weakness
itself is a provocation.” ~ National Review
“Chew
your corn.” ~ Capt. Dan Pease, late skipper of the schooner Lewis R. French
“(People)
spoke of ‘Justice,’ but they seemed to mean ‘Revenge.’” ~ Douglas Murray, The
War on the West.
BLM is
an organization of racist thugs. Antifa is an organization of fascist thugs.
“Speaking
the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” ~ George Orwell
Slavery
was a great sin. The United States would be better off if not one slave had
been brought to these shores. Colonialism was also a sin. The world would be
better off if European powers had not built one road, hospital, airport, or school
in the third world.
It’s
telling that Antifa, BLM, and their woke allies have targeted Winston
Churchill, the greatest anti-fascist in history.
“The demonization
of the west and western people is now the only acceptable form of bigotry at
international forums such as the United Nations. ~ Douglas Murray, The War
on the West.
You
cannot right past wrongs by committing new wrongs in the present.
Make
America Sane Again.
“The
Jewish nigger Lassalle…It is quite plain to me…that he is descended from the negros
who accompanied Moses flight from Egypt (unless his mother or paternal
grandmother interbred with a nigger.” ~ Karl Marx, letter to Engles.
“We find
every tyrant backed by a Jew.” ~ Karl Marx, New York Tribune, 1853.
“Slavery is an economic category like any other. ~ Karl
Marx, 1847
So, in
light of these and other quotes, why have the statutes of Marx not been dragged
down? When people have been cancelled because their ancestors invested in a
company that benefited from slavery, why not Marx? Because he is a left-wing god.
I’m glad
I learned math before 2+2=4 became racist.
The woke
have indulged in revenge and called it justice, in destruction and called it
building, in hate and called it love.
“One way
or another, we are going to have to figure out how to make our multi-ethnic
realities work, and one of the great intellectual projects facing us---in America
and abroad—will be to develop a vision of ourselves strong and supple enough both
to acknowledge the lingering importance of inherited group identities while also
attenuating, rather than reinforcing, the extent to which such identities are
able to define us.” ~ Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self-Portrait in Black and
White. https://www.bing.com/search?q=thomas+chatterton+williams&filters=ufn%3a%22Thomas+Chatterton+Williams%22+sid%3a%22695cdb93-9cf4-cd29-6fe9-b8440bd600fd%22&asbe=HS&qs=MB&pq=thomas+chatterton+williams&sc=10-26&cvid=1C3FD4687E41401C8A5542B381DBCBAC&FORM=QBRE&sp=1&lq=0
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Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the
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Madison VA hospital, interviewing vets and writing up their life histories. He
is also teaching chess to kids after school.
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