Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Sunday, April 24, 2022
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Califortnia Fleeing'
California Fleein'
The tax base is down (the tax base is down)
And the future’s gray (it’s more black than gray)
I’m now in my car (I am in my car)
Heading far away (drivin’ fast away)
I can keep some money (well, at least a little)
If I run away (headin’ Phoenix way)
Fleein’ California (ciao California)
And headin’ Phoenix way.
Goin’ to Arizona
Or maybe Texas way.
As soon as I get there (soon as I can get there)
I’ll demand they change (I’ll demand they change)
They must be hip and with it (must become with it)
Just like California (like California)
The day I ran away.
The tax base is down (the tax base is down)
And the future’s gray (it’s more black than gray)
I’m now in my car (I am in my car)
Heading far away (drivin’ fast away)
Where I can speak English (If I can speak English)
I’m leaving there today. - Tom Kratman
J. K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling compares demand to accept transgender wokeness to the drive for conformity in the Soviet Union
Friday, April 22, 2022
White House refuses to apologize after border patrol agents cleared of ‘whipping’ migrants
White House refuses to apologize after border patrol agents cleared of ‘whipping’ migrants
National Guard Soldier Missing after Trying to Rescue Migrants from River
National Guard Soldier Missing after Trying to Rescue Migrants from River
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Kill my first Jew
UK: Knife-Wielding Muslim Attacks Jewish Man, Screaming ‘I Want to Kill My First Jew’
Sunday, April 17, 2022
Imprimis
Imprimis
The Continuing Importance of Thomas SowellGood article. Imprimis subscriptions are free.
Saturday, April 16, 2022
cutting VA Services?
Team Biden Floats Plan of ‘Pulling Medical Resources’ from VA to Serve Illegal Aliens
Not verified
Articles from National Review
"Eyes Wide Shut," by Ruy Teixeira
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/04/18/eyes-wide-shut/
Must read if
you can get past the paywall.
Saving the Ayatollahs by Reuel Marc Gerecht & Ray Takeyh
Good article, no paywall
The End of Illusions by Jay Nordlinger
The Adventures of Hunter Biden by Andrew McCarthy
Friday, April 15, 2022
76th Birthday, 4/15/22.
Went to Fitz's on Lake Wisconsin in Okee. Wonderful food, especially the Lemon Meringue Ice Cream Pie!
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
We have become the Tower of Babel
It is the most comprehensive and amazingly balanced essay on our society's changes and problems that I have ever seen. Detailed discussion and totally nonpartisan, with great insights in where we are and how we got here. And how dangerous things have become, and how we need to change things if we are to keep the society from falling into real and devastating chaos. It's not a short read, but every second spent on it is worthwhile.
Del
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
New York Lieutenant Governor Arrested on Bribery Charges in Alleged Campaign-Finance Scheme
New York Lieutenant Governor Arrested on Bribery Charges in Alleged Campaign-Finance Scheme
The Big guy
NY Post Breaks Down ‘Hunter and The Big Guy’ Scandal so Even the Liberal Media Can Understand It
Friday, April 8, 2022
Reading
Americans:
1. According to the National
Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), 21 percent of adults in the
United States (about 43 million) fall into the illiterate/functionally
illiterate category. Apr 29, 2020
2. The average American is
considered to have a readability level equivalent to a 7th/8th grader (12 to 14 years
old). This level is actively used as a benchmark for written guidelines in the
medical industry. Mar 22, 2017
3. The share of Americans who report not reading any
books in the past 12 months has fluctuated over the years the (Pew Research) Center
has studied it. The 23% of adults who currently say they have not read any
books (not even a junk novel) in the past year is identical to the share who
said this in 2014. (This is scary. I read 4-5 books a month. And we
wonder at the political mess we are in. ~Bob)
Muslim with illegal guns
New York state: Muslim pulled over for speeding, is discovered to have 58 illegal guns
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Book Recommendation
The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941: The War in the West by James Holland
This is part of a planned
trilogy; I have already ordered book two. Holland is a novelist, so holds your
attention, even tough the book goes into great detail about the first three
years of WWII. He focus not only on the
leaders on both sides, and the battles, but the men in the lower ranks.
His account is balanced as good
history should be. He is not afraid to point out mistakes and errors by both
sides. Though I have an Med in history and am well versed in War Two, I learned
a great deal. I highly recommend it.
Lincoln
Guests of the Great Emancipator
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/04/04/guests-of-the-great-emancipator/
Happy Tartan day
National Tartan Day, observed in the United States on April 6 every year, commemorates the day that the Declaration of Arbroath (or the Scottish Declaration of Independence) was signed in 1320. The reason it’s so important is that the American Declaration of Independence was actually modeled on the Declaration of Arbroath and quite a big proportion of the Founding Fathers were of Scottish descent (almost half of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and nine of the 13 governors of the newly established United States, were Scottish!)
Monday, April 4, 2022
Biden's Black support
NEW MARQUETTE LAW SCHOOL POLL NATIONAL SURVEY FINDS NEAR-EVEN SPLIT IN APPROVAL OF PRESIDENT BIDEN’S HANDLING OF UKRAINE, AMID SHARP PARTISAN DIVIDES IN GENERAL AND NO REBOUND IN DECLINE IN BLACK SUPPORT
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Friday, April 1, 2022
Random Thoughts for April
Random Thoughts for April, 2022
(I don't know why the blog double spaces these posts?)
Robert A. Hall
Feel free to post or forward.
Health Update: The
small carcinoma tumor they took off my face is healing well.
Renal detected a "microscopic" trace of blood in
my urine, may be a small tumor in my bladder. If so, easy to fix if you
don't mind a camera being jammed up your hoo-hoo! Had a urine
test retake to see if there is still blood in my pee, waiting results.
There are still two spots in my lung. They are a fungal infection, Penicillium. Thankfully not aspergillus (why they took my left
lung out). Not considered very dangerous. The bronc was cancelled. They say
they will treat it aggressively and will schedule another CT scan.. We shall
see.
Starting to have pain in my left hip, so another hip
replacement may be in my future.
Will keep you posted.
*****
Turning 76 on April 15, past my sell-by date and
the biblical three score and ten. I continue to march.
Are you a hero on “Call of Duty”?
The Ukraine is calling.
I tell the VA nurses that I might
not look like much now, but back in the day I was almost average.
People who fear for their
children are not amenable to calm discussion.
More people have died of COVID
under Biden than under Trump. So much for his promise that he had a plan to end
COVID.
Only a fool judges the past by
the standards of today.
Question experts.
They want to reduce carbon, and
you, my friend, are a carbon-based life form.
Being smart isn’t enough. You
have to be smart fast enough.
From the Net: “The government
says they can stop global warming. But they can’t stop robocalls.” (I get 8-12
a day.)
March 7: Gas is $4 a gal in
Wisconsin. Time to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. Time to open fracking on public
lands. And is it too late for Keystone?
“Freedom and Whisky gang
together.” –Robert Burns
“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent
people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.” – Dostoevsky, Russian novelist
You cannot do everything needed
to fix the world. But you must do something.
I haven’t seen liberals rally to
defend their position, in this case Biden on fuel prices and Ukraine,
since…well…since the Rittenhouse verdict. –George S.
Don’t mess with me. I used to be
a bouncer in a daycare.
When politicians send me an email
marked, “Confidential, do not share” I know it went to a mass audience and it’s
a request for money.
You want to replace something?
Trust me, they don’t make that kind anymore.
The first principle of
leadership: Set the Example.
Rhetoric is nice, money is
better, steel is best. –Eric Abrams, NR
Malinvestment is a term mostly associated with the
“Austrian” school of economics, which nobody knows about in Austria, the key
figures of the Austrian school having emigrated to the United States and
England as they fled Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s. Malinvestment is what
happens when some public policy or other source of economic distortion makes
certain otherwise unprofitable investments look profitable or makes them
temporarily profitable until the underlying economic reality asserts itself.
The (very simplified) Austrian explanation of recessions is that when
politicians goose the economy through loose monetary policy, that lowers the
cost of capital and makes certain investments more profitable than they
otherwise would be, resulting in a misallocation of capital that lasts until
the artificial stimulus ends. –Kevin Williamson.
Once offended, never mended.
Defeat Vlad the Invader.
“The
main thing I always said was you have to do the best possible work and you
don’t have to worry about looking for work; your reputation follows you. …
People are where they put themselves in life. No one is entitled to anything.
You have to show something, goodwill or work, to get something.” –91-year-old
Marine veteran I interviewed.
"The idea of conquest was central to the Sultanate,
intricately interwoven with its holder's position as leader of the Muslim
world. ... Only spectacular conquests could legitimize a sultan." Roger
Crowley, Empires of the Sea.
"What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private
property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own
property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the
control of the means of production is divided among many people acting
independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals
can decide what to do with ourselves. If all the means of production were
vested in a single hand, whether it be nominally that of 'society' as a whole
or that of a dictator, whoever exercises this control has complete power over
us."
-- Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
[1944]
Don’t buy products from Robo-callers or spam emails. It only encourages
them.
Many people claim to want peace-of-mind. But when they get it, become
bored and seek out drama and chaos.
As government expands, liberty contracts. –Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address.
“He meant well,” is one of the worst tings you can say about a person.
To be able to think long term is a gift.
The secret of weight loss is discipline.
Facts are more important than feelings. Ability is more important than
identity. –George S.
Get the collection! My “Random Thoughts” from
2009 through July, 2013 are collected in this book: The Old Jarhead's Journal: Random Thoughts on
Life, Liberty, and Leadership by Robert A. Hall
The Old
Jarhead’s Journal is a collection of Random Thoughts on politics and
life and Conservative Political Essays, mostly published on the author’s blog,
including the essay “I’m Tired” which went viral on the Internet in 2009, “The
Hall Platform,” “This I Believe,” and “Why I’m a Republican.” While they will
be of interest to conservative thinkers, they are collected here in book form
as a service to readers who wish to give a copy to favorite liberals and watch
their heads explode. All royalties are donated to the
Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund.
*****
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 twelve books are listed here: http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html. His blog
of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com. He currently volunteers
as a writer-editor in the My Life, My Story program as the Madison VA hospital,
interviewing vets and writing up their life histories.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Monday, March 28, 2022
SCOTTISH COURT RULES THAT DEFINITION OF ‘WOMAN’ CANNOT INCLUDE BIOLOGICAL MALES
SCOTTISH COURT RULES THAT DEFINITION OF ‘WOMAN’ CANNOT INCLUDE BIOLOGICAL MALES
Hunter Biden had Defense Department encryption keys on his laptop that no private citizen should have
Hunter Biden had Defense Department encryption keys on his laptop that no private citizen should have
Biden's ad libbing
Biden’s Ad-Libbing Becomes More Dangerous
Excerpt: There’s a place for strategic ambiguity, but this isn’t one of them. Alas, this weekend, President Biden exclaimed, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power!” and then his staff rushed to clarify that the president “was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change,” which is the opposite of what the president actually said.
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Friday, March 18, 2022
$10T for Russia
Biden’s handlers’ new Iran deal allows Russia to cash in on $10,000,000,000 contract to build nuclear sites
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
inflation
Former Obama Economist Says Biden Was 'Wrong' to Blame Ukraine War for Inflation
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/former-obama-economist-says-biden-was-wrong-blame-ukraine-war-inflation
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Saturday, March 5, 2022
From National Review
Down for the Count National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/03/07/what-reforming-the-electoral-count-act-can-do/#slide-1
Reefer Madness
Heavy use of cannabis can lead to psychosis, explain husband-and-wife psychiatrists.
DOJ Entices Its First Seditious-Conspiracy Plea — by Not Mentioning Trump
DOJ Entices Its First Seditious-Conspiracy Plea — by Not Mentioning Trump
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Ukrainian National Anthem
A wonderful performance of the Ukrainian National Anthem by the Metropolitan Orchestra and Chorus and conducted by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. You will notice one singer, a young man in the middle of the group, who has his hand over his heart, and needs no song sheet. Because he is Ukrainian, and knows the anthem of his beloved country by heart.
Pass it on as a form of your support.
Del
Random Thoughts for March, 2022
Random Thoughts for March, 2022
Robert A. Hall
Feel free to post or forward.
Health Update
I had my six-month lung checkup 2/10/22. Mostly good. However the CT scan
showed three small nodules in the lower part of my lung. Looking at the scans,
if the doctor said I’d live 20 years, or die tomorrow, I’d have believed him.
They meant nothing to me. I might be aspirating my food as I eat fast (Thank
you Parris Island). The danger is that they will lead to infection that could
eat away my (only) lung. Another CT sca
& meet with Dr. on 3/10.
Might also be aspergillus, which forced the removal of my left lung in
2020. But this is my last one!
I’ve been to Respiratory Therapy
to get forced sputum tests, with mixed results. Tacrolimus lab sad I need to
lower my tac intake by .5mg.. Doc wants me to eat slower (good luck) and to
sleep with a wedge pillow they got me. He ordered a swallow test on 3/1. Results
mixed.
Had two biopsies on the left side
of my head. One was pre-cancerous. The other was Basil Small-Cell Carcinoma, a
not-too-dangerous cancer. They called at 9:45 am 2/22 for me to come in by
12:00 noon to have it removed, or wait until May. I was there at 11:45AM. They
said it shouldn’t come back. Stitches out 3/1.
My creatinine level
is 1.5. It has been about that for years, though it is above normal. I have
given up caffeine and drink more water—I don’t want to be on dialysis. My FEV
numbers were the same as last time (they are better at home, but declining). My
6-minute walk was better than last time. Diabetes and Osteoporosis are holding.
Will update this as needed.
I continue to march.
*****
The Washington Stupid Sons-of-Bitches
was a close second. –NR
Who would Jesus abort?
The Jacobins are gaining power.
When they have full control, the Terror will be next. Followed by an American
Napoleon. Whether the Republic will eventually be restored is uncertain.
When you pick a candidate based on race and gender rather than competence
and ability, what do you get? Kamala! Joe Biden hasn’t learned this lesson.
You may have to wear a mask to the polls this November, but if you vote
right, not afterwards.
I’m not old. I’m a teenager with special needs.
We are ruled by the hypocrites in the mask-less elite.
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of...We know the
truth not only by the reason,
but by the heart.” --Blaise Pascal
The principal feature of
contemporary American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all
bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific
goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a
self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. People who
care a lot are naturally superior to we who don’t care any more than we have
to. By virtue of this superiority, the caring have a moral right to lead the
nation. It’s a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this
aristocracy is that you don’t have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to
join it, you just have to be liberal. Liberals actually hate wealth
because they hate all success. They hate success especially, of course, when
it’s achieved by other people, but sometimes they hate the success they achieve
themselves. What’s the use of belonging to a self-selecting elite if there’s a
real elite around? Liberals don’t like any form of individual achievement. . .
. Also wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty.
With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery, women from
exploitation. Businesses can be started, homes built, communities formed,
religious practiced, educations pursued. But liberals aren’t very interested in
such real and material freedoms. Liberals want the freedom to put anything into
their mouths, to say bad words, and to expose their private parts in art
museums. --From "Give War a Chance" by the late P.J. O'Rourke.
In many parts of the world, democracy is just a way to get
power so you can kill the opposition.
It is hopeless signing treaties with Communist or Muslim autocracies.
They will only keep them as long as it is to their advantage. Then, so
sorry, the agreement is broken.
Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant. Then it tries
to silence good. –Arch Bishop Charles J. Chaput
People see what they want to see.
“The Democrats are the party that says government
will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn.
The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they
get elected and prove it.” -- P.J. O'Rourke
Truth is whatever a politician can convince the public is true.
“Tories win elections, but because of who runs the British state, Labour
is effectively always in power.” --Steven Edginton
Slaves used to be branded in many countries so you would know them. Now I
wonder if a mask doesn’t serve the same purpose.
Democrats were shrill in lobbying for a $15 minimum wage. Now, because of
Bidenflation, they may get it de facto, if not de jure.
Martin Luther King said:
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever
affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Looking at you, China, Russia,
and big sports.
Here
in the United States, the combined BLM/antifa riots of summer 2020 caused the
greatest property damage claims of any riot in U.S. history, around $2 billion.
The violence eventually led to over 35 deaths, the torching of a federal
courthouse, police precinct, and historic Washington D.C. church, over 1,500
police injuries–and, mysteriously, very few indictments of some 14,000 people
arrested. –
Victor Davis Hanson
In October 2019, Joe Biden
pledged that, “Putin knows that when I am president of the United States, his
days of tyranny and trying to intimidate the United States and those in Eastern
Europe, are over.” So much for that. –Jim Geraghty
The one thing that history really
seems to teach most strongly: people don’t learn much from history. That is,
generations continue to make similar mistakes. –Walter Russell Mead
Honoris, Virtus, Fidelitas
Get the collection! My “Random Thoughts” from
2009 through July, 2013 are collected in this book: The Old Jarhead's Journal: Random Thoughts on
Life, Liberty, and Leadership by Robert A. Hall
The Old
Jarhead’s Journal is a collection of Random Thoughts on politics and
life and Conservative Political Essays, mostly published on the author’s blog,
including the essay “I’m Tired” which went viral on the Internet in 2009, “The
Hall Platform,” “This I Believe,” and “Why I’m a Republican.” While they will
be of interest to conservative thinkers, they are collected here in book form
as a service to readers who wish to give a copy to favorite liberals and watch
their heads explode. All royalties are donated to the
Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund.
*****
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 twelve books are listed here: http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html. His blog
of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com. He
currently volunteers as a writer-editor in the My Life, My Story program as the
Madison VA hospital, interviewing vets and writing up their life histories.
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