Random Thoughts for June, 2023
Robert A. Hall
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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.
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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 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.
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