Random Thoughts for August,
2018.
By Robert A. Hall
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Political correctness or Freedom of Speech. Pick the one you
are for.
Some people believe “The Right Not to Be Offended” is in the
constitution.
An old military axiom is, “Take the high ground, or they
will bury you in the valley.” Politicians of both parties should remember it.
Muslim shoots at Jew, Jew ducks. Islamophobia! Jew shoots
back…attempted genocide!
Everybody has an agenda. Everybody’s a partisan. When you
can’t trust the partisans of either side, including the media, to give you all
the facts, and facts without spin, then it becomes impossible to make an
objective decision about an issue, except by your own visceral partisan
reaction. And the public grows ever more cynical of politicians, pundits and
the media.
Saw a tee shirt: “Honesty is the best policy. Unless you’re
guilty.”
People say, “It’s the exception that proves the rule,” as
though the exception makes the rule true, which is inane. Back when the slogan
was coined, “prove” meant to test. So, it really means that the exception tests
the rule.
If the US is like Nazi Germany as progressives say, why are
so many trying to get in instead of out?
Education for poor black and Hispanic kids will never
improve until schools have the will and the power to permanently expel the
disruptive, the violent and the drug pushers, despite the fact that many of
them are also minorities.
Tee shirt at the VA: “Some people just need a high five. In
the face.”
If you have to resort to insults and name calling, your
arguments are pretty week. I know this has been said before, but with this type
of anti-civil behavior increasing on both sides, it needs to be repeated often.
Many people are still slaves. The greedy are slaves to
greed. Druggies to their drug. Alcoholics to their booze. Smokers to tobacco.
And smart phone or video game addicts to their screens.
The more government grows, the more private organizations (churches,
clubs, local associations, etc.) shrink. Ask a liberal what is the right size
for government to be, when it will need to expand no more? Government is now
24% of GDP. Imaging when it is 50%? 75%? 98%? Of course, the collapse will come
first.
I won’t be here, but I bet in 30-40 years all those wind
turbines will be abandoned. The economics don’t work.
This must be tee shirt month. Saw a teen girl in a
restaurant wearing what I think was a sports tee shirt, maybe soccer: “Everyone
must under-go one of two pains. The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”
Very true.
If someone steals our girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse away, you
should be grateful and thank them for getting someone unworthy out of your
life.
From my Marine buddy Bill: "Life is not
the way it's supposed to be - it's the way it is. The way you cope with it is
what makes the difference."
What’s
the difference between legal abortion and infanticide? About five minutes.
Long
ago I learned the old law: “Hard times make strong men. Strong men make good
times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make hard times.” Look around. The
strong men who won WWI, WWI and Korea are mostly gone. They gave us the good
times we have enjoyed for 60 years. Strong men fought in Vietnam, but they were
a minority. Strong men have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, but they are a tiny
minority. Look at the majority of weak men. And Women. And tell me that hard
times are not coming.
When
I rest and think, I feel 35, maybe 40. Then I get up and walk and I’m suddenly
aware that I’m 72.
If
you are young, you may think that time is your friend. It’s a lie.
People
are entitled to their own opinions. My opinion is that most of them should sit
down and shut up.
Nothing
is as annoying as super-rich Hollywood celebs, who have mansions bigger than 20
of our homes combined, preaching that we need to take in more immigrants, when
they haven’t invited even one to live in all their wasted space.
Trump
reportedly said that Montenegro (with it’s 2000-member military) is strong and
aggressive and might start WWIII. The Montenegrins responded with how peaceful
and friendly they are. It would have been funnier if they had given Trump five
days to surrender!
If
you are driving and trying to keep a safe distance from the car in front of
you, someone is sure to cut in.
Trump’s
top advisors after things like the recent summit must feel like the guy with
the shovel and rolling barrel following the elephants in the parade.
Scriptures say man is made in the image of God. I suspect,
however, that many of them are actually cheap knockoffs.
In the 50s and 60s, the John Birch Society was raving about
Russian Communists (like Putin who wants to restore the USSR) infiltrating and
undermining the USA. Now the progressives are raving about Russian Communists
(Like Putin) infiltrating and undermining the USA. Maybe they should join the
John Birch Society. If it’s still around.
Good habits make life easier. Bad habits…
Sign on local liquor store: “Beer as cold as your ex’s heart.”
I was thinking again today of how many things you could say
in the office 30 years ago they couldn’t say on TV and how much they can
discuss on TV now that you can’t say in the office.
Years ago, “Man” was generic and meant both genders. So,
they put a stop to that at the expense of convoluted and inelegant language.
But now the young women say to other women, “You guys want to have lunch?”
Women have made “guy,” which used to be exclusively masculine, into a generic
word for both genders.
When I see signs that say, “Speed lime 20 MPH when children
are present,” I wonder what if you have a couple of kids in the back seat?
What they really need are signs that say, “Traffic doing the
speed limit, keep right.”
Note to Millennials: Life is not a video game, bad decisions
have real consequences. Often irretrievable consequences.
Would the world be poorer without you? Or better?
Since Joan Baez sang a hit song, “The Night They Drove Old
Dixey Down,” bemoaning the fall of the Confederacy (or “The slave Power,” as my
New England ancestors called it), does that make her an Alt-Right racist?
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