CHRISTMAS 2019

This is my favorite time of the year. In my life I have lived in many different parts of the country. I have experienced white Christmases and I have enjoyed Christmas in eighty degree weather. I loved them all. When the kids were small it was definitely more fun but Christmas continues to be wonderful.

This blog will not be a rant about the politics of our time. There will be time enough for that later. No, this is just a warm greeting to you all. It is my hope that your Christmas brings you all that you desire. Our new year will be exciting and again I hope it brings you all that you could wish for.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Ron, December 25, 2019

PUT YOUR PARACHUTE AWAY

PUT YOUR PARACHUTE AWAY

Back in my younger days when I was in the Army, I used to get hops on military aircraft. I could go to any military air base and sign up to travel free of charge to wherever a plane was going. If you had a particular place in mind you just had to sign up and wait for a flight going to that place. In many cases the aircraft were high ranking officer’s planes. I often traveled on a General’s plane. 

Now needless to say, there weren’t any cute flight attendants on board or any safety speech about what to do if we crashed into the water, etc. We were told however, that the way to know if the plane was in any trouble, was to watch the highest ranking officer and when he put his parachute on, it was time to panic. Military airplanes were equipped with parachutes for all passengers the way your fishing boat has life preservers. 

Fortunately I never had to don my parachute although there were some scary flights.

I bring this up because of what is happening in this country with the Mickey Mouse impeachment nonsense going on in the Congress. You will notice ever since this all started, the stock market has exploded. New records are set almost daily. What this should tell everybody is that the stock market doesn’t much care one way or another about the silly attempt to remove Trump from the Presidency. The traders know what everyone else should know and that is Trump will not be removed from office by this bunch of lefties who seem hell-bent on making it happen. The real likelihood is not only will he survive this attempted coup but will probably be re-elected in 2020 by a landslide. This is kinda like the time to panic is when the General puts on his parachute or when the stock market gets nervous. Until then, it’s mostly just a colossal waste of time and money.

There are thirty-one Democrat Congressmen who were elected in districts that Trump carried easily. It just might be time for them to get nervous or even panic. They are now going to be forced by all of this to put their careers on the line and vote for a situation they know is a giant nothingburger and may well cost them their job. Every single one of them who votes to impeach this President should be sent packing period, and probably will be. I almost feel sorry for them.

Nancy Pelosi lost control of the House when she started listening to the left-wing media as they tried to shine love lights on Ocasio-Cortez. Her biggest failure was to understand that this country is a right-of-center moderate-thinking people who will never accept or endorse socialism. The Democrats may never regain their previous status in the politics of America. And that’s okay with me. 

Now Christmas is upon us. I intend to take this special time to reflect on the true meaning of this season. I am not going to let a few socialists destroy my holiday. It is not time to put on our parachutes. It is instead a time to enjoy the flight. To enjoy family and friends. To dig in to the food of the season. Maybe even an occasional adult beverage. In a few days, if the House even passes this crap, the Senate will put it all to rest and the leftist coup will have failed again.

Merry Christmas to you all and may the peace of the season envelope you with calm and beauty.

Ron Scarbro, December 18, 2019

ARE YOU KIDDING?

Concerning the Democrat contenders for the Presidency in 2020 some things are just not in dispute. I am going to lay out some of these facts for our review. 

First, there is this little matter of Hunter Biden sitting on the Board of Directors of Burisma, an energy company in Ukraine. It has been reported that Hunter earned anywhere from fifty to eighty thousand dollars per month for his efforts. Anybody with an ounce of brain matter knows the only reason Hunter Biden got that plush job was because his father, Joe Biden, was at the time Vice President of the United States and in charge of our relationship with Ukraine. There hasn’t been any report as to whether Joe got any of that money, but you can come to your own conclusion. Hunter held that position for about five years and pocketed some serious money.

Joe insists there was nothing illegal about any of this. Maybe, I’m not a lawyer or a judge. But I am a voter and I know when something smells, and this smells. In fact, it stinks. Anybody in this country who doesn’t see the problem with this is either stupid or just blind to reality. 

A cursory investigation of Hunter Biden is also quite revealing. He was kicked out of the military for cocaine use. He is not of sterling character. He was also completely unqualified to sit on any board of anything. No, this was political quid pro quo. When Ukraine attempted to investigate Burisma and their connection to Biden, VP Joe threatened to withhold aid to them unless they fired the prosecutor and ceased the investigation. Then Joe bragged about his bullying. It got his son off the hook. 

Here’s a question. How could any Democrat look at what Joe Biden did and see nothing wrong and at the same time attempt to impeach a sitting President for a phone call in which Trump allegedly asked the President of Ukraine to investigate the corruption of Burisma and possibly Biden. In this instance there was no quid pro quo, just the idea that Ukraine did have a financial interest in following through. How could Trump be guilty and Biden be innocent? Curious, wouldn’t you say?

How about Mayor Pete Buddigieg? This guy is an avowed homosexual who lives in a marriage with another homosexual and Pete serves as the wife in the relationship. Can you just imagine this clown traveling to different parts of the world, representing the United States as President, and attempting to negotiate with people who are required by their religion to kill homosexuals on sight? 

I know nothing about this guy and I really don’t care. If he wants to live that perverted lifestyle, that is his choice. But if he wants to be President of the United States, then it is the voter’s choice. I would be greatly surprised if he got any more than two per cent of the national vote and that would be too many.

Then we have Elizabeth Warren. Are you kidding? This is an individual who lied about her heritage in order to gain favorable standing at Harvard. That is an insult to both Native Americans and her true heritage. She has screamed hatred for millionaires and yet she has become one. Here’s a question. How? How does a US Senator earn that kind of money?

Speaking of millionaires, never mind. Let’s speak of billionaires. Steyer and Bloomberg have apparently decided to just buy the Presidency. Both are spending millions buying ads trying to convince normal people that they are also normal. Not gonna work. They are elitists who have zero conception of what life is really like. Bloomberg has been on a tear trying to take away our guns for years. He also doesn’t think you have enough intelligence to decide how big your soft drink should be. Both of these clowns think we should look to them for these decisions because they obviously think they know best. 

To them both I say, go away. I neither want nor need your help.

Ron Scarbro

December 11, 2019

BUT ADVERTISING HELPS, OR DOES IT?

In my old age I watch a lot of television. The arthritis I have experienced lately has certainly hampered my ability to get out and move about. Ergo, I spend more time sitting and watching TV. I have developed some opinions of what television has become. 

To show you how old I am, I can remember when commercials were shown once at the top of the hour. Then the networks decided they needed more revenue so they started running commercials at the half hour also. That turned out okay so, lo and behold, we now have commercials every ten minutes. Now, in a one-hour television show, we have six commercial breaks leaving us with forty minutes of programming. Oh, and by the way, Public Broadcasting stations also run the same commercial breaks.

Well, I am a capitalist, so I understand the need to increase revenue when you can so I expect commercials to pay for the programming I watch even though it seems quite excessive.

Another example of the evidence of my advancing age is the preponderance of commercials offered by attorneys and doctors. Just a few years back, that was considered unethical. So, what changed? Ethics or the need for ethical conduct? The only people who seem to run more ads than lawyers and doctors are auto insurance companies. 

One cannot turn on a television program without being inundated with car insurance commercials. We have the famous lizard, excuse me, the gecko, busy selling insurance using an Australian accent. Not to be outdone, we have a group of people dressed as bakers or meat packers, I can’t figure it out or understand the correlation between auto insurance and whatever it is they are pretending to be, but there they are acting as if insurance was a tangible item that comes in a box. I cannot imagine who would be moved to buy insurance from them because of their ads. Have you ever wondered as have I, how much would car insurance cost if the companies didn’t spend so much money on television commercials?

But the ones that really frost me are the prescription only pharmaceutical ads.  I’m talking about the hundreds of commercials which attempt to sell drugs to people with any of a number of conditions from erectile dysfunction to Aids to heart disease. I am especially interested in the ads which say, be sure to tell your doctor if you are allergic to this medicine, or if you have any of a number of other reasons you shouldn’t be taking it. Seriously now, would you go to any doctor who would prescribe a drug to you if he didn’t already know you could take it? 

The drug manufacturers tell us the reason they run these ads is that they experience increase sales when they do. What does that tell you about your doctor if he waits for you to tell him what drug he should prescribe? Pretty scary if you ask me.

It still gets back to the real problem for me and that is the cost of these medicines and these insurance products because of the money they spend on advertisement. I’ve heard it said that even if you live in a wilderness, if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. But advertising helps. Or does it? 

Simply put, car insurance and prescription medicine are too expensive and the cost of advertising has to be a factor in that cost. I have never suggested a medication to my doctor and would be leery of any doctor who would wait for me to ask for a medicine. That’s his job to know, not mine.

Ron Scarbro

December 4, 2019