Random Thoughts for July 2023
Robert A. Hall
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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 Several news stories have been unpublished for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.
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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 order: chastity, 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.
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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 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.
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