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Random Thoughts for July 2023

 

Random Thoughts for July 2023

Robert A. Hall

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Health: Everything stable. Six-month review 7/6. Back aches a lot, so bought posture and back braces. Too early to tell, but I think they will help.

 

Blogspot stopped publishing my “Random Thoughts” because, after 10 years, it violated their “community standards.” Also, they wouldn’t publish a list of my books. Both denials came back instantly. Must have key words in its algorithm. Several news stories have been unpublished for the same reason.

 

Update: They stopped unpublishing my posts for violations of “Community Standards.” I don’t know why. Been trying to understand WordPress, but despite buying a book, I’m making small progress. We shall see. If I go to a new blog, I will keep you posted. Meanwhile the current one www.tartanmatrine.blogspot.com is working.

 

I will be shopping less on Amazon. I bought an item that didn’t work as advertised. Then I discovered it had to be returned through Whole Foods, about an hour’s drive with traffic to the other side of Madison. I went through hell getting a UPS label. I won’t buy anything that might have to be returned.

 

Our PayPal account was hacked. There were several charges on my credit card for orders from PayPal to Walmart. I called both and think I got through voicemail hell. Also told my credit card company the charges were bogus. The cancelled my card; sending me knew ones. Walmart informed me my items were shipped to Owasso, OK and Hildalgo, TX. I wrote the police department in both towns. The Owasso PD informed me the address was outside town, and the Kenneth that two items were shipped to had died last year. The Owasso PD has been great at follow up. He said scammers often ship to empty houses to make collection easier. I could file a complaint with the Sheriff but would have to file an identity theft charge here to get them to take action. Nothing from Hidalgo, TX. Sigh.

 

Rude, Crude, and Lewd Jokes: Something to Offend Everyone by Robert A. Hall. $6.99

https://www.amazon.com/Rude-Crude-Lewd-Jokes-Something/dp/B0BYB934MW/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1680049861&refinements=p_27%3ARobert+Author+Hall&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Robert+Author+Hall

This book has over 700 jokes, limericks, quips, and one-liners, that will make you a star at the bar, but a pariah at the church social.

 

Now Available in kindle for 2.99: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C937QPQY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OP6UTMUMHX1K&keywords=rude%2C+crude+and+lewd+jokes+robert+a.+hall&qid=1687544368&s=digital-text&sprefix=rude%2C+crude+and+lewd+jokes+robert+a.+hall%2Cdigital-text%2C109&sr=1-1

 

I asked a cute girl, not yet nine, in one of my Chess Summer Camps, what she wanted to be when she grew up. She said, “A chess teacher like you.” It was a lovely compliment, but I told her she should find something to make more money and do chess on the side.

 

What makes companies think that their customers want the woke agenda shoved down their throats?

 

Tee shirt: “You know that little thing inside your head that tells you when you shouldn’t say something? Yea, I don’t have one of those.”

 

“You will be amazed at how many big U.S. and multinational corporations who are enthusiastically celebrating “Pride Month” have significant operations in countries that criminalize homosexuality. It’s not just China and Saudi Arabia, and it’s not just manufacturing in countries such as Pakistan or Indonesia. No, you’re going to be flabbergasted by which particularly controversial company at this moment has operations running in . . . Uganda, which just enacted what are probably the most anti-gay criminal laws on the planet. Corporate America gets to market to LGBT consumers stateside, and then turn around and make a bundle in some of the most anti-gay countries in the world, and apparently everyone is just fine with this systemic hypocrisy.” ~ Jim Geraghty

 

Tee shirt suggestion: Straight, White, Christian, Male. My life matters as much as yours.

 

Friday Fish fry is an institution in the Midwest. Saw this tee shirt on a waitress: Thank Cod it’s Fryday.

 

Is charisma more important than ability? We know race is.

 

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." ~ John Adams (1770)

 

“Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.” ~ Patriot Post

 

“It is impossible to eradicate all errors from obstinate minds at a stroke; and whoever wishes to climb to a mountaintop climbs step by step." ~ Pope Gregory to St. Augustine, c597

 

Tee shirt: “Every time I think things can’t get worse, there’s an election.”

 

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” ~ John Stuart Mill

 

During discussion the other night one of the women, clearly a person of color, asked for the definition of white culture. So, I started thinking…what are those things that apparently the woke reject as racist or demonstrations of whiteness? Here’s my list: Getting the right answer, exemplified by math being labeled as racist. Being polite, such as holding doors open, and saying please and thank you. Being prompt or on time. Using a trash can. Valuing education. Valuing the nuclear family. I believe the woman who asked the question noted the white value of materialism, yet she ignored the rampant looting of stores.” ~ GS

 

“Only in Washington-speak is keeping spending the same considered a cut.” ~ National Review.

 

"The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families." ~ John Adams (1778

 

“When politics enters the room, principles often fly out the window.” ~ Diana Gabaldron, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade.

 

“Few men are brave; many can be made so by care and the force of discipline.” ~ Vegetius

 

I had to get on the Internet through my laptop. The log-in wasn’t cooperating. I had to call tech support at TP-Link. The guy there was very patient working through my problems to get me on-line. Five stars.

 

I hate voice mail. Companies drone on while you just want a person.

 

Like anger, ideology is a bad master.

 

The FBI is now Biden’s Staatspolizi.

 

Son: Dad, I know about Silly putty. But is there Serious Putty?

Dad: Son, let me tell you about C4. From the Net.

 

At Costco I saw both peanut Butter Whiskey and Cookie Dough Whiskey. I assume they had a really bad batch of bad whiskey and had to put that stuff in it to make it sell.

 

With some people you think they threw out the baby and kept the placenta.

 

“Nuns have three vows that they take when they join their religious orderchastity, poverty, and obedience.” I’d make a bad nun.

 

“The difference between us: You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your positions exists to provide those people with Freedom. And I go to make sure they have it!” ~ William Wallace.

 

I’m surprised the media didn’t blame the titanic sightseeing sub implosion on Trump.

 

“In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own.” ~ Ben Franklin

 

I must have missed all the stories about women who transitioned to male fighting to use the men’s restroom.

 

“When it hits the fan, nobody calls the pronoun people for help.” ~ From a meme

 

“Agreeing to allow more Federal debt is pretty much Washington’s definition of a bi-partisan agreement.” ~ National Review

 

(Dad) “knew that the bast way to prevent a boy from becoming a predator was to raise him as a protector.” ~ Robert P. George

 

“If you have something to say, silence is a lie.” ~ Dr. Jorden Peterson

 

“Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”  ~ David Horowitz.

 

Civilization, freedom, progress, prosperity—none of these are the normal order of things. We had to create them. And WOKE will kill them.

 

Affirmative action is systemic racism.

 

Earlier generations of Americans would be appalled at the bureaucratic regulations that govern our lives.

 

*****

Email from a retired professor: Your book of quotations arrived and I plunged right into it! Yes, the section on guns was one if the first things that I read. You have compiled an impressive set of wise comments. Bravo.

 

*****

Quotes for the Conservative Heart: Ideas as Weapons of Defense

Print $9.99:

Kindle $2.99: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B576XFSX?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

 

Quotes for the Conservative Heart is a collection of over 1,900 quotes, thoughts, and adages that will make you think (which may be an uncomfortable experience), which will help you defend yourself against ad hominin attacks, and which will help your writing and speaking. They will inspire you to fight a bit harder and a bit longer. As necessary to your security as an extra magazine, this book will help you identify threats to you, your family, and your culture. Open carry (of this book) is encouraged. We hope it will be a constant companion and a treasured possession. If you like it, please review on Amazon, and tell your friends.

 

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 books are listed here: https://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2023/06/books-by-robert-hall_15.html

 

His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com. He was a writer-editor in the My Life, My Story program as the Madison VA Hospital, interviewing vets and writing up their life histories. He is now teaching chess to kids after school.

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Random Thoughts for June, 2023

 

Random Thoughts for June, 2023

Robert A. Hall

Feel free to post or forward.

 

Health Update:  I now think my restless legs are related to alcohol. If I don’t have a drink, don’t seem to have them at night. Had a benign growth removed from my mustache area. All else is stable.

 

The most common delusion is self-delusion.

 

“Luck is the residue of design.” ~ Branch Rickey

 

Our property assessment went up $5k. I wouldn’t mind if they’d spend it on police.

 

“Courage is contagious.”  ~ Coffee Mug Slogan

 

I know it’s not true. I read it in the newspaper.

 

“‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.” ~ F. A. Hayek

 

I thought I would eventually become a forgetful genius. I’m getting there; I’ve got the forgetful part down pat.

 

“Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.” ~ Mark Twain

 

Blogger Dave Blaska (worth reading) calls progressives, “The Woking Dead

 

“Forgive and forget. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties and forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.” ~ Mark Twain

 

If someone over 50 tells you their age, you are required by custom to say, “You don’t look it!”

 

Half of most people’s troubles are self-created.

 

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” ~ Ram Dass

 

The next time someone is trashing western civilization, remind them that since 1990, cancer death rates have fallen by 20% to 35% in the US, Canada, and western Europe (Source: Readers Digest). Aren’t you glad you live in the west?

 

“Take the risk or lose the chance.” ~ Sign

 

Fame should be a byproduct of accomplishment, not an accomplishment in itself.

 

In March, Traute Lafrenz, the last living member of the White Rose Society, died in Germany at 103. If you don’t know what the White Rose was, you need to find out.

 

“Who would have guessed that Bud Light would be unable to tell a faint approximation from the real thing?” ~ National Review

 

Russians are arrested from putting flowers on the bridge where dissident Boris Nemtzov was murdered in 2015. That’s all you need to know about the re-sovietization of Russia.

 

Britain’s military has declined to a shadow of what it once was, but they had us to protect them. Who will protect us if the current decline in the US military is made permanent?

 

“The deeds of a kind man follow him like a shadow all his days.” ~ Buddha

 

I read that unsolved murder rates are at a record high.

 

“A Vermont school is replacing ‘Man’ and ‘Woman’ with ‘person who produces sperm’ and ‘person who produces eggs.’   It is also replacing teacher with ‘person who produces confusion.’” ~ National Review. Well, at least they recognize that men and women are different. This won’t last. The woke will attack them as trans-“women” don’t produce eggs. ~ Bob

 

“The city is being destroyed by the migrant crisis.” ~ NYC Democrat Mayor Eric Adams

 

“Americans may have lost interest in terrorism, but the terrorists have not lost interest in us.” ~ National Review.

 

“Twitter is the mob.” ~ David Harsanyi

 

These policies to impose ‘equity’ by numbers are racist to their core, and must be called out as such. I'm sorry various minority members still carry scars from their own experiences or what they've heard about, but to wallow in bitter victimization doesn't really help them and those attitudes hurt society. We're watching the damage to our institutions continue to climb, in a world and at a time when we absolutely cannot afford to let it happen.” ~ Del

 

“A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.” ~ Nietzsche

 

If our little dog ate everything that we bring home in doggie bags, he’d weight 500 lbs.

 

“Rights come from God, not governments.” ~ lawn Sign

 

During my campaigns, I made up bumper stickers that said, “Fight High Taxes – Vote Republican.” Still true 50 years later.

 

“Civil rights used to be about treating people the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.” ~ Thomas Sowell

 

I suspect a lot of folks saying we should invest in Gold are selling…Gold.

 

If white lives don’t matter to blacks, why should black lives matter to whites?

 

“In certain basic respects — a totalitarian state structure, a single party, a leader, a secret police, a hatred of political, cultural and intellectual freedom — fascism and communism are clearly more like each other than they are like anything in between.”  ~ Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Associate Professor of History at Harvard, New York Times Magazine, Sunday, April 4, 1948

 

“Call me a magician, but I turned a back rub into two kids and a mortgage.” ~ Mewe.com

 

“The first hundred years are the hardest.” ~ Proverb

 

Reality doesn’t change because you think it’s not woke enough.

 

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” ~ Louis L”Amour

 

The Federal Bureau of intimidation must be abolished and we must start over.

 

I heard they are changing the name to Federal Bureau of Intimidation.

 

"Truth has become the new hate speech."  ~  Pamela Geller

 

I was at an elementary school where I teach chess. A male teacher, shoulder length hair, was wearing jeans and a “Protect Trans Kids” tee-shirt. I wanted to tell him I had a shirt that said, “Protect Kids From Trans Activists,” but the hoo-rah would likely have gotten me fired from teaching chess.

 

Self-discipline is the most important discipline you can have. Alas, it is in increasingly short supply.

 

Can they say of you, “He is a man of honor”?

 

I got an email addressed to Carol with a survey from Delta Airlines. I said I’m not Carol & I don’t fly Delta. I also get email addressed to Donya about a seminar in Texas they want her to attend.

 

Desperate people are dangerous.

 

You stand with the Jews or you stand with Nazis and Jihadists.

 

“What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

 

“The best is the mortal enemy of the good.” ~ Voltaire

 

“(Reporters are) like roaches, you know. Crush one, and the others all run off into the shadows, But by the time you turn round, there are throngs of them back again, happily feasting on your carcass and spreading filth over your life.” ~ Hal Grey, Duke of Pardlow, fictional character in Diana Gabaldon’s Go Tell the Bees I am Gone. 

 

Being a person of color (not a colored person), gay, or trans is now a top qualification for a job, overriding questions of education, experience, or knowledge.

 

 *****

 

Note from a dental technician who bought two of my quote books: “My dad and whole family will greatly enjoy these as they resonate with everything we value & hold dear. What a gift you have & what a sacrifice of time.” ~ Emily

 

Email from a guy in NC: “I bought four copies of your Quotes. I gave three to friends and one is on my desk.  GREAT WORK!” – Kirk. He followed up that he bought a two more books for other friends! He also wrote a very positive review on Amazon.

 

*****

Quotes for the Conservative Heart: Ideas as Weapons of Defense

Print $9.99:

Kindle $2.99: https://www.amazon.com/Quotes-Conservative-Heart-Weapons-Defense-ebook/dp/B0B44B7F3R/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1655505879&sr=1-1

Quotes for the Conservative Heart is a collection of over 1,900 quotes, thoughts, and adages that will make you think (which may be an uncomfortable experience), which will help you defend yourself against ad hominin attacks, and which will help your writing and speaking. They will inspire you to fight a bit harder and a bit longer. As necessary to your security as an extra magazine, this book will help you identify threats to you, your family, and your culture. Open carry (of this book) is encouraged. We hope it will be a constant companion and a treasured possession. If you like it, please review on Amazon and tell your friends.

 

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 other books are listed here: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7362663422037727028/9086317755245136353

His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com. He was a writer-editor in the My Life, My Story program as the Madison VA Hospital, interviewing vets and writing up their life histories. He now teaching chess to kids after school.

 

 

Books by Robert A. Hall

 

Books by Robert A. Hall

 

Quotes for the Conservative Heart: Ideas as Weapons of Defense

Print $9.99

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B576XFSX?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

 

Kindle $2.99: https://www.amazon.com/Quotes-Conservative-Heart-Weapons-Defense-ebook/dp/B0B44B7F3R/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1655505879&sr=1-1

 

The Coming Collapse of the American Republic: And what you can do to prevent it $12.99/$.99

https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2KTIGCR5V49L3&keywords=The+Coming+Collapse+of+the+American+Republic&qid=1654036800&sprefix=the+coming+collapse+of+the+american+republic%2Caps%2C101&sr=8-1

 

Rude, Crude, and Lewd Jokes: Something to Offend Everyone by Robert A. Hall. $6.99

https://www.amazon.com/Rude-Crude-Lewd-Jokes-Something/dp/B0BYB934MW/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1680049861&refinements=p_27%3ARobert+Author+Hall&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Robert+Author+Hall

 

The Good Bits: The Marines, the Massachusetts Senate and Managing Associations $19.98

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1420888943/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i12

 

Chaos for Breakfast: Practical Help and Humor for the Non-profit Executive $7.65

(Only available used)

https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Breakfast-Practical-Nonprofit-Executives/dp/0880342927/ref=sr_1_1?crid=23NRIEEP3SQKP&keywords=Chaos+for+Breakfast%3A+Practical+Help+and+Humor+for+the+Non-profit+Executive&qid=1654037143&s=books&sprefix=chaos+for+breakfast+practical+help+and+humor+for+the+non-profit+executive+%2Cstripbooks%2C209&sr=1-1

 

C.Y.A.: Protecting Yourself in the Modern Jungle  $7.99/$2.99

https://www.amazon.com/C-Y-Protecting-Yourself-Modern-Jungle/dp/1481989103

 

Advice for my Granddaughter: For When I’m Gone $8.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/147004238X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4

 

Advice for Boys: From an Old Marine $7.99

https://www.amazon.com/Advice-Boys-Marine-Robert-Hall/dp/1491295775

 

Old Jarhead Poems: The Heart of a Marine $8.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463766211/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i10

 

Share the Cup: Poetry of Love and Life  $8.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475119178/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i9

 

The Hand of the Prophet: A Novel of Islamic America, 2053  $8.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1478160535/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i8

 

Eddie Grabowski's Gift: A Marine Christmas Story $6.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1484165861/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5

 

The Old Jarhead's Journal: Random Thoughts on Life, Liberty, and Leadership $12.99

https://www.amazon.com/Old-Jarheads-Journal-Thoughts-Leadership/dp/1490500162

 

The Old Jarhead's Seabag: Short Stories, Essays and Irish Pennants $8.99/$3.99

https://smile.amazon.com/old-Jarheads-Seabag-Stories-Pennants/dp/1534837590/ref=sr_1_1?crid=24Q3FWOXXLFCG&keywords=The+Old+Jarhead%27s+Seabag%3A+Short+Stories%2C+Essays+and+Irish+Pennants&qid=1654037459&s=books&sprefix=the+old+jarhead%27s+seabag+short+stories%2C+essays+and+irish+pennants%2Cstripbooks%2C109&sr=1-1

 

If you have read and liked any of my books, please review them on Amazon and tell your friends.

 

*****

 

Better than fifty Shades of Gray

Submissive: My Story $9.99

by Martha May McDunn (Author)

https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=submissive%3A+my+story&i=stripbooks&crid=2A5IKNZN5QB5G&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C86&ref=nb_sb_ss_recent_1_0_recent

 

This manuscript came to us through a third-party, so we have not met or spoken to the author. We are inclined to believe that if it is not a thinly-disguised memoir, it is highly autobiographical, as many first novels are. We would compare it to Fifty Shades of Gray if we were sure it was a novel. We will let the reader judge. It is a difficult book to pigeonhole—and to read. We have published it as we have received it, with very little editing.

It details the protagonist’s sexual awakening as a submissive. It does not contain teenage intercourse, like the acclaimed novel Tampa, and many others, as she is a virgin when she starts college. But she has the misfortune to be placed with a foster father at 14 who is into bondage and discipline. Later in college, she falls under the spell two sexually dominant men sequentially. The book details only six years of her life, and the increasing trauma that her situation leads to. She goes into graphic detail of her sexual abuse in college, in which she was a willing participant. The book is dedicated to the mental health professionals who came to her rescue.

 

 

For Men Only: Adult Bedtime Stories $2.99 Kindle Only

https://smile.amazon.com/Men-Only-Adult-Bedtime-Stories-ebook/dp/B09Y38FRKW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2RT0QWYE50LXG&keywords=For+Men+Only%3A+Adult+Bedtime+Stories&qid=1654475265&s=books&sprefix=for+men+only+adult+bedtime+stories%2Cstripbooks%2C105&sr=1-1

These short stories are works of fiction. And resemblance to actual persons or places is entirely coincidental. “Randy Andy” has been writing well-received erotic short stories for men for several years. This is a collection of his best. Enjoy.

 

Women should not buy this book. We can’t stop you, but trust us, you probably won’t like it.