24 August 2010
I’m 63 and I’m Tired
In his February 19, 2010, posting to his blog, The Old Jarhead (http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com) Robert A. Hall vented his spleen on how life is being unfair to him. Each of his complaints deserves a response:
1) How do you decide which are the lazy people?
2) One benefit of government regulation would be to save stupid people from themselves.
3) It looks like Hall is envious of outspoken millionaires.
4) You do have to look back centuries for Christian analogies to the outrages of today's Muslim societies. It's not Islam that has prevented uniformity in world progress.
5) Race was all that mattered when slavery was common. We shouldn't resent the fact that we are still having to make up for it.
6) Condi Rice is a sycophant who would never use her free judgment in a way that could spark resentment from someone like Hall.
7) It's easy to knock over straw men.
8) We might as well complain that drilling for oil in Alaska is unfair because it's too cold there.
9) Hall should be concerned about global warming if only because of its potential impact on the lives of his daughter and granddaughter.
10) Educating potential drug addicts--instilling in them the same self-control that Hall apparently has--would be a better way of to avoid the cost of dealing with them after they become burdens on society.
11) Who benefits from the availability of undocumented workers? If growers didn't hire them, they wouldn't come. If drug purchasers didn't buy drugs, the "undocumented pharmacists" would have to resort to the tactics of giant germs stuffing powder up innocent noses.
12) Reasonable Muslims are no doubt just as ashamed and embarassed by the terrorists who act in the name of Islam as we have been by the atrocious behavior of abusers at Abu Ghraib or helicopter gunners in Baghdad.
13) Politics has always been a dirty game.
14) All admitted mistakes are the same. Willfull errors are not a birthright but learning experiences, the consequences of which can often be better compensated for by the rich, but have to be lived with even by the poor. It's the schadenfreude of people like Hall that is undeserved.
15) Who should take responsibility for Hall's being tired of everthing?
In his February 19, 2010, posting to his blog, The Old Jarhead (http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com) Robert A. Hall vented his spleen on how life is being unfair to him. Each of his complaints deserves a response:
1) How do you decide which are the lazy people?
2) One benefit of government regulation would be to save stupid people from themselves.
3) It looks like Hall is envious of outspoken millionaires.
4) You do have to look back centuries for Christian analogies to the outrages of today's Muslim societies. It's not Islam that has prevented uniformity in world progress.
5) Race was all that mattered when slavery was common. We shouldn't resent the fact that we are still having to make up for it.
6) Condi Rice is a sycophant who would never use her free judgment in a way that could spark resentment from someone like Hall.
7) It's easy to knock over straw men.
8) We might as well complain that drilling for oil in Alaska is unfair because it's too cold there.
9) Hall should be concerned about global warming if only because of its potential impact on the lives of his daughter and granddaughter.
10) Educating potential drug addicts--instilling in them the same self-control that Hall apparently has--would be a better way of to avoid the cost of dealing with them after they become burdens on society.
11) Who benefits from the availability of undocumented workers? If growers didn't hire them, they wouldn't come. If drug purchasers didn't buy drugs, the "undocumented pharmacists" would have to resort to the tactics of giant germs stuffing powder up innocent noses.
12) Reasonable Muslims are no doubt just as ashamed and embarassed by the terrorists who act in the name of Islam as we have been by the atrocious behavior of abusers at Abu Ghraib or helicopter gunners in Baghdad.
13) Politics has always been a dirty game.
14) All admitted mistakes are the same. Willfull errors are not a birthright but learning experiences, the consequences of which can often be better compensated for by the rich, but have to be lived with even by the poor. It's the schadenfreude of people like Hall that is undeserved.
15) Who should take responsibility for Hall's being tired of everthing?
Comments:
Thank you for posting a link to my piece, "I'm Tired." I am not, however, the actor Robert D. Hall, on CSI. Someone assumed there could only be one Robert Hall in the world and added his photo and bio information as this went around the net, and unthinking people passed it on or posted it.
Second, it was not a letter to President Obama and it was posted in 2/09, not 1/10.
People who wish to comment on it can find it on my blog: www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com under February of 09. If you liked it, you may also like the posts below, or my almost daily political digest. ~Bob
I’m Tired
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/02/robert.html
This I believe
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/03/this-i-believe.html
The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/03/essay-coming-collapse-of-american.html
My books
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html
Economic Facts of Life
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/08/economic-facts-of-life.html
Why I’m a Republican
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-im-republican.html
Change that would fix America
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/03/change-that-would-fix-america.html
I’m dying
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/05/im-dying.html
Who’s eating your lunch?
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/08/essay-whos-eating-your-lunch.html
Global Warming Articles
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/03/global-warming-articles.html
Historical figures look at the stimulus bill
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/02/historical-figures-look-at-stimulus.html
Agent Orange Fact Sheet
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/12/agent-orange.html
E-mail courtesy and techniques
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/06/e-mail-courtesy-and-techniques.html
A Religion of Peace?
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/04/religion-of-peace.html
Angry Liberals
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2008/11/angry-liberals.html
When the guardians fail
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2008/11/when-guardians-fail.html
Reading list for the war on Terror
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2008/11/reading-list-for-war-on-terror.html
The Next Terrorist attack on America
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/09/essay-next-terrorist-attack-on-america.html
Includes my 1998 column predicting 9/11
Why the Future Looks Bleak
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-future-looks-bleak.html
Helping Obama
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/10/helping-obama.html
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Second, it was not a letter to President Obama and it was posted in 2/09, not 1/10.
People who wish to comment on it can find it on my blog: www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com under February of 09. If you liked it, you may also like the posts below, or my almost daily political digest. ~Bob
I’m Tired
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/02/robert.html
This I believe
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/03/this-i-believe.html
The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/03/essay-coming-collapse-of-american.html
My books
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html
Economic Facts of Life
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/08/economic-facts-of-life.html
Why I’m a Republican
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-im-republican.html
Change that would fix America
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/03/change-that-would-fix-america.html
I’m dying
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/05/im-dying.html
Who’s eating your lunch?
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/08/essay-whos-eating-your-lunch.html
Global Warming Articles
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/03/global-warming-articles.html
Historical figures look at the stimulus bill
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/02/historical-figures-look-at-stimulus.html
Agent Orange Fact Sheet
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/12/agent-orange.html
E-mail courtesy and techniques
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/06/e-mail-courtesy-and-techniques.html
A Religion of Peace?
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/04/religion-of-peace.html
Angry Liberals
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2008/11/angry-liberals.html
When the guardians fail
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2008/11/when-guardians-fail.html
Reading list for the war on Terror
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2008/11/reading-list-for-war-on-terror.html
The Next Terrorist attack on America
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/09/essay-next-terrorist-attack-on-america.html
Includes my 1998 column predicting 9/11
Why the Future Looks Bleak
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-future-looks-bleak.html
Helping Obama
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/10/helping-obama.html
