Random Thoughts for September,
2013
Robert A. Hall
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“Random Thoughts” from 2008 through July, 2013 are now 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
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or her head explode. All royalties are
donated to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund.
The public is strongly against military intervention in Syria.
But the public is strongly against Obamacare, and strongly for the Keystone
Pipeline and Voter ID laws, so what the people want does not matter a whit to
the elites.
Remember when the anti-war movement was considered to be a
force, before they were bought off by Obama Phones? Good days.
The three-step plan: Muslims hate America, which they think is
controlled by Jews. America
attacks Syria.
Muslims rally to Syria.
95% of gun violence is New
York City is from blacks or Hispanics. But better to die
than profile, because it’s racist, you know. And the fact that the vast majority
of the victims are minorities? Tough for them. Better by far that they die than
that a white cop loses his career to a racism charge.
I know that “wrong site surgery” is a problem, but I don’t
think if they call me for a lung transplant, they are likely to replace a
kidney by error.
Surprised people aren’t going around beating up anyone who
looks like Obama, yelling, “This is for Brian Terry, Chris
Stevens and the SEALs dead in Benghazi!”
I mean if “Justice for Trayvon…”
Typical leftists, want to boycott and hurt the millions of
residents of an entire state because they didn’t agree with the decision of six
jurors.
Funny how the media tried to make every Republican responsible
for Todd Akin’s comments on rape, but Weiner’s and Filner’s actions are theirs
alone.
Read a story about a guy with two kids and one on the way
who was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis at 28, dead at 29. At 67, I have
nothing to complain about.
Phony scandals: IRS targeting political groups. Fast and
Furious (hundreds dead). Benghazi
(four Americans dead. NSA spying. Real scandals: Romney put dog on car roof
years ago. Romney has binders full of women. Romney wants to defund Big Bird.
Got it?
Cable News: 40% commercials. 20% beating a story to death
where there is no real new news (Casey Anthony, Edward Snowden). 20% human
interest “news” about things like a two headed goldfish. 15% talking heads
shouting at each other. 5% news of interest. This is why I almost never watch
Fox, CNN or MSNBC.
Let’s see, we are being drawn into
Syria to “do something”
about all the civilian casualties, while getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan, thus increasing
civilian casualties. Have I got that right?
Hawaii
is buying airline tickets for the homeless to return to the mainland.
Maybe Michigan should buy bus tickets to other states for Detroit’s
poor.
The military is thinking of having Atheist Chaplains. We had
them back in my days in the USMC, but we called them “bartenders.”
I saw a bumper sticker in Madison, WI
that just said “99%.” Big deal. 99% of us, including the vast majority of
Romney voters like me, are in the “99%.” After all. If the 99% had all voted
for Obama, Romney would have received less than 1%, especially considering that
a lot of 1% folks, including Obama, Buffet, Soros, Michael Moore, Jon Corzine,
the Kerrys, the Clintons and most mega stars in Hollywood, whose incomes are
large and cognitive powers small, were for Obama.
The Obama administration is hitting the country on so many
fronts that even the well-informed can’t keep track, never mind the low
information voter. ObamaCare. Benghazi.
Fast and Furious. IRS. NSA. Pigford. Muslim Brotherhood. Tax dollars to
political cronies at failing green energy companies. Race baiting. Voter
ID. And on it goes. It’s like having
your position overrun by a human wave attack. You can’t shoot enough of them
fast enough to change the outcome.
Both the Boston Globe
and the Washington Post have been
sold. We call that, “Cashing out before the crash.”
They are planning to hold a “running of the bulls” in Chicago. Apparently
someone thought that Chicago
didn’t have enough stupidity. Even money that someone gets in the pen and
paints gang signs on some of the bulls before the run.
A True Progressive never rests. There are always more people
whose behavior you must control “for their own good,” because you are wise and
they are stupid.
Are all those moms-to-be wearing tee shirts with an arrow
pointing down and the caption “Baby” pro life? Wouldn’t it say “Fetus” if they
were pro choice?
Every time I see “Impeach Obama,” I think “President Biden”
and shudder. But unless Democrats in the Senate get behind it, zero chance.
I’m old (67) and now quite ill. But in my heart, I’m still a
serving Marine.
Pvt. Bradley Manning, meet your new cellmate, Bubba.
Pro Sports: My hired criminals can beat your hired
criminals.
The future belongs to the fertile. (Hint: It’s not western
civilization. Mark Steyn says that 1,000 German men will have 400 sons, while
1,000 Afghan men will have 4,000 sons.)
The more we learn about Sydney Leathers, the clearer it is
that she and Anthony Weiner (D-Carlos Danger) deserved each other.
Maybe Weiner’s wife is so understanding because she is a
Muslim, and the Holy Qur’an, as revealed by Mohammad (PBUH) allows men to have
four wives and unlimited concubines and slave girls.
President Obama, his administration and the Pentagon thinks
that the Fort Hood murders were workplace violence,
nothing to do with Islam, and were not Jihad Terrorism. But the murderer, Nidal
Hasan, clearly disagrees. He says that his killings were done in the name of
defending the Taliban as part of the Jihad to establish Islam everywhere as the
perfect religion.
We were in a store parking lot recently, and I noticed the
“Reserved for Expectant Mothers” parking sign was lying on the ground. “Look,
Dear,” I said to my wife, “The Knocked Up sign got knocked down.”
People who praise sacrifice, from money to lives, are always
more interested in having other people do the sacrificing.
The fact that you tick me off doesn’t make you special.
On a five-week tour of the west in 1903, President Teddy
Roosevelt gave 263 speeches. All without using a teleprompter.
Suggested tee shirt: Anthony Weiner sends me the wurst
tweets.
The boycott against Russian vodka is growing, because
nothing says you support gays like sticking it to the workers who make vodka
and have no say over Russian government policy on gays.
Heard the media called “White House Fluffers.” Gotta love
it.
If speeches could turn around the economy, no one would be
unemployed or under-employed.
All you need to know about Obamacare is that the Congress
that passed it and the IRS employees who will enforce it don’t want to be part
of it.
My wife is a Saint Louis Cards fan, while I root for the Boston
Red Sox. That doesn’t mean we ever watch a game or could tell you what their
standings were on any given day. But if they get in the series, we do check the
game results. Usually.
As I get older, I think my tolerance for stupidity is
declining. Hate wasting my limited time, I guess.
I realize the media has to refer to killers as “alleged
perpetrators” to protect the jury pool from challenge. But I’m not aware of a
legal reason they need to refer to a thug as “the gentleman.”
It’s amusing how the media never mention the race of a
shooting victim or the shooter except in the rare cases when the victim is
black and the shooter is white. Or can be declared white like registered
Democrat, Obama voter and Hispanic George Zimmerman.
If Hilary Clinton is elected President in 2016, who will she
blame for the mess she inherits? Bush blame is getting kind of long in the
tooth.
See if I understand. It’s racist to treat Obama with the
same level of criticism and ridicule that other presidents have been subjected
to. Have I got that right?
Rodeo Clown in Obama mask: Racist hate crime. Left wing
rapper making sex tape denigrating the heroic Harriet Tubman? Crickets.
Democrats are always brining up the KKK, but to be fair,
since the Klan was all Democrats in its heyday they should know the most about
it.
I know a lot of liberals who were opposed to developing the
Osprey. Now that First Dog Bo has his own, I wonder how they feel.
Is it possible to disagree with an Obama policy or statement
without being called a racist?
If you can’t stand the heat…pull out the race card.
Yuppie college student being denied free birth control? War
on Women! Teen rape victims being stoned to death by Muslims for “adultery”?
Multiculturalism!
Climate Change Deniers? How about Benghazi Deniers, IRS Targeting Deniers, Fast
and Furious Deniers, NSA Spying Deniers…
Obama’s policies cannot stand on their own against
criticism, must be protected by charges of racism as the only defense.
Since the left feels that Canada
and Mexico
are much more ethical and progressive than we are, we should only require voter
ID when they do.
Wouldn’t it be cool if Obama would say, “Jesse Jackson Jr.
could have been my son”?
Politics is no longer about solving problems (if it ever
was). It’s about appeasing the base by postponing problems until they are much
worse, but hit on someone else’s watch.
When you tell someone to “man up,” it’s always an insult,
though often a deserved one.
Somewhere at the front in the War on Women: “Okay, men, this
is a dangerous mission, and some of us won’t be coming back. Tonight we are
going in to take out Sandra Fluke’s condom supply.”
I don’t know if the death penalty deters murderers. But it
damn sure inters them.
Progressives: Fundamentally Transforming America into Detroit.
A lot of folks have problems that could be fixed with a
little effort and self-discipline. But they’d rather complain about their
problems than fix them.
One of Obama’s major problems is that he believes his own
BS.
If you like your doctor, you can keep him. If you like your
healthcare plan, you can keep it. If you like your tax rate, it’s not going up
if you make under $250k a year. And if you like your president, you’re
feeble-minded.
There’s no such thing as "idiot proof." We always
breed better idiots.
If you lead a horse to water and he doesn’t drink, a kick in
the gonads seldom improves the situation.
Chicago Blackhawk Brent Seabrook, Jersey Number 7, gave his
new son the middle name of “Seven.” I suppose the kid will be glad dad wasn’t
#69.
People who say there is no room at the top usually mean they
don’t have the energy and determination to try to get there.
Plan B Birth Control: 15-year olds are adults. Health Insurance:
26-year-olds are children.
People are increasingly learning how to fly under the
government’s radar, as they need to do in police states.
Why is it about race if a white (or white Hispanic) assaults
a black. But not about race when a black assaults a white?
I think Bradley Manning and Nidal Hasan would make great
cellmates.
I stopped in Target to buy cough syrup. Young, sharp-looking
black clerk asked me for my ID. “That’s racist,” I said. “I don’t need an ID to
vote.” Exactly,” he said, “It’s stupid, but they make me ask.”
The Obama Doctrine: Apologize. Bow. Hope. Find someone to
blame.
Is it just me, or are the folks calling for us to “do
something” about Assad gassing his own people, the same folks who were all
upset when we “did something” about Saddam gassing his own people?
Baathists are a gas.
Following in trace with Bradley “Chelsea” Manning, I’ve
always felt that I was a Duke trapped in a commoner’s body and I want to be
called “Your Grace” from now on.
If people tell you they are “not a good person,” they are
probably telling the truth.
I want to thank my wife for standing by me when my recent
indiscretion came to light…wait, nothing came to light? Never mind, just
kidding.
If college is a “right,” isn’t getting a PhD a “right”? I’m
going back—at your expense!
Democrats are now demonizing Sen. Ted Cruz, thinking he’s a
potential candidate. They did it to Sen. Marco Rubio, until conservatives took
over because of amnesty.
If abortionists started using guns, liberals would be for
the Second Amendment.
LBS ordered spying on Martin Luther King. Nice that Obama
celebrated the 50th anniversary of MLK’s “Dream” speech by having
the NSA spy on everyone. Consistent but inclusive, no?
Just because a conspiracy theory going around the net agrees
with your world view doesn’t make it true. Or that you won’t look like an idiot
f you jump on it without adding qualifications.
Southern slave owners used to claim that blacks were
incapable of supporting themselves independently, participating in free
government, getting an education, competing with whites in the job market and
being civilized without being controlled. Do you think if you resurrected them
and told them today’s black marriage rate, black crime rate, black high school
graduation rate, black non-marital birth rate or black employment rate, you’d
convince them they were wrong? Back before welfare and minimum wage laws, when
the majority of black kids were born into two-parent families, when blacks had
higher employment rates than whites and when an inner-city segregated school
like Dunbar High in Washington, DC educated the children of poor blacks (with
fewer resources than white schools) to score higher on tests than whites and to
be leaders in the black community, because of parental involvement and
discipline, they’d have been dead wrong. Given that I almost lost my life
putting down the slave power (my great, great grandfather, Oliver Vernal, then
childless, was badly wounded twice servicing with the Sixth Connecticut
Volunteer Infantry), it pains me greatly that the results of our policies for
the last 60 years would now confirm the slave owners in their evil beliefs.
*****
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.
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