Random Thoughts for September 2023

 

Random Thoughts for September 2023

Robert A. Hall

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Health: My back aches. I’m tired all the time. My hearing seems to be getting worse. My balance is bad. So, I’m fine. Had a renal appointment. My kidneys are doing well, creatinine is 1.4, but there were traces of blood in my urine and the amount of protein in my urine is growing. They had me do another urine test the same day, scheduled more blood work in two weeks, and will schedule an ultra sound to be sure it isn’t caused by cancer. Gave me pills for the protein.

 

I have decided to give up teaching chess, though I will miss the kids. One girl said she wanted to be a chess teacher like me when she grew up. A boy sent me a post card thanking me. A girl drew a thank-you card with a dragon on it. Several had their picture taken with me, often with the trophies they bought by earning chess dollars. I had many nice comments from parents. But after teaching six weeks of chess summer camp, Monday-Thursday, three hours a day, I realized I was putting in twice as many hours as I was compensated for, and putting a lot more gas in the tank than what they pay in gas money covered. Not to mention running the printer with special handouts for my kids, or picking up used chess sets at thrift stores to give to kids who don’t have one. Of course, the fact that my vision and hearing is getting worse, and I’m too tired to haul around the 70-80lb. suitcase with 10 chess sets, books, demo board, etc. contributed to my decision.

 

What does Sen. Tim Scott stand for?

https://www.ontheissues.org/House/Tim_Scott.htm

 

I read in National Review that 3/4^th of university Diversity Officers are white. And can make up to $424k a year! There’s a lot of money in discriminating against the Whites, Asians, and Jews.

 

Jim Crow recognized a person as black with one drop of black blood. Will Jim Reparations use the same standard?

 

If parents had a way to determine if a child was going to be Gay, would the left support their right to abort that child?

 

Violence has always been normal around the world in political disputes. Now that Antifa and BLM are bringing increasing political violence to America they will provoke increasing counter violence.

 

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.” ~ John Stuart Mill

 

Fight Fuzzy Thinking!

 

“There remain 73 countries in the world where it is illegal to be gay, and eight in which being gay is punishable by death.” ~ The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murrey.

 

Contrary to what the Left tells you, the Roberts Court has overturned precedent less often than the Warren, Burger, or Rehnquist courts.

 

Nothing is obnoxious as a fundamentalist progressive.

 

Progressives think that if you don’t think just as they do, you are evil. And if their leaders change their minds—say like the Clintons on Gay marriage—they will change their minds, and you better too!

 

When a tech company says you have violated their “Community Standards,” they mean the standards of their far-left Silicon Valley community.

 

Maybe it’s guilt. While companies like Google preach diversity, according to The Madness of Crowds, “Google’s workforce is only 4% Hispanics and 2% African American. At 56%, whites are not over represented compared to the wider population, but Asians make up 35% of Google staff and have been steadily reducing the number of white employees despite making up only 5% of the population.” I guess at Google, competence matters more than diversity.

 

Teaching chess summer camp in DeForest, I turned at a bar and grill that also offered bait and tackle. Welcome to Wisconsin.

 

Gratitude is as dead as chivalry.

 

“The Wolf at the door is your greatest Danger, and not only in Winter.” ~ Russian Proverb, from The Wolf at the Door by Jack Higgins.

 

Putting diversity ahead of ability is racism.

 

If Trump had committed the irregularities that Biden has, the Democrats would be screaming. And vice versa.

 

Sometimes I put my GPS on just to piss it off by taking back roads.

 

When I was a young man, people dreamed of fulfilling Martin Luther king’s dream of a color-blind society. Now “color blind” is racist. Does that make King as racist? After all, anything you did in the past can still be held against you. And everything your ancestors did—except for Kamela Harris’ slave-owning ancestors—can be held against you.

 

And when I was a young man, black people were referred to as colored people. That now is racist, but “people of color” is the height of political correctness. Go figure. There is no avoiding the woke landmines unless you are in a favored group.

 

If you can’t trust the scientists, you can’t trust the science.

 

“A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince.” ~ Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Republic.

 

Do not fall in love with a politician. You will find yourself defending the indefensible. Support the ones you believe in, but keep a clear head.

 

“Doesn’t matter what the press says. Doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — “No, you move.” ~ Mark Twain

 

Nothing fills Wisconsin drivers with despair like a “Road Construction Ahead” sign.

 

Ultinatims are usually a mistake.

 

Money is fungible. If you give a terrorist-supporting country humanitarian aid, it frees up other money to support terrorism.

 

*****

 

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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.