A LOT ON MY MIND

There are a lot of things on my mind this week. I try to pick one subject and cover as much as I can. But sometimes it just builds up. 

 

Let's start with this. Now I understand politics has always been a dirty business but, doesn't there come a point where politicians should think of our country first and put their party on the back burner? A poll just released showed a majority of respondents believe the future of America is in jeopardy because of liberal policies. Inflation is killing our economy. Our southern border is completely unsecure. To hear Biden, you would think everything is going just the way he wants it. Is he that stupid? Is he that tone deaf? That silly little press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, is a joke. Even the Democrats, through their media partners, seem less than enthused by her ridiculous answers. 

 

The Texas Governor and the Florida Governor are rounding illegals up and sending them to northern blue states who claim to be sanctuary states only to be met by screams of foul. Texas gets thousands of illegals every day and Martha's Vineyard gets less than a hundred. And they blame Texas for their influx of illegals who were supposed to be welcome anyway. Isn't that what sanctuary means? I'm pretty sure these liberal "progressives" never thought they would actually see an illegal alien except for the gardener or maybe the housekeeper let alone a whole busload. 

 

The brilliant governor of California wants to have Florida and Texas governors arrested for kidnapping. I've said it before and I'll say it again, what a moron. He should be arrested for impersonating a governor. 

 

Did you hear what the Democrat governor of Illinois is bringing to his poor state in 2023? No cash bail. He intends to release murderers, kidnappers, rapists, and numerous other perpetrators back on the street without holding them in jail until their trial. Now does anybody with the brainpower of stale bread believe these thugs are going to show up for trial? Also, does anybody actually believe these criminals are going to suddenly become good citizens and not continue in their life of crime? People are going to continue to die in the streets of Chicago and other formerly great cities of that idiotic state. And the numbers will grow. Where do people like this governor come from? How about the mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot? Are you kidding me? And how do these idiots get elected?

 

The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution allows for cash bail. It also forbids excessive bail and cruel punishment. Nowhere in our Constitution is there any allocation for reduced cash or no cash bail because the perpetrator can't afford it. Just more progressive nonsense. You wonder how they might feel if one of these thugs they release shows up at their house in the middle of the night. They might reconsider.

 

And finally, we are now being told there will be a social security cola increase for next year of about 8 or 9 percent. Wow, thank you social security. I don't know about you, but my costs of everything started exploding about a year ago and it's well more that 8 or 9 percent. It is more like 20 to 25%. It all began when Biden canceled the Keystone pipeline and stopped oil and coal exploration in this country. My readers will remember that I predicted this would be the beginning of massive inflation. I wish I hadn't been so accurate. If recipients do get a nice increase, they will be behind at least a year. The purpose of SSA Cola is to keep senior retirees on an even keel with everybody else and keep up with the cost of living. Oops, pretty obvious that ain't working.

 

Ron Scarbro September 21, 2022

 

 

WISHING WILL NOT MAKE IT SO

2035 is going to be a banner year for the state of California. The esteemed, nearly recalled Governor, Gavin Newsom, of that once great state has decreed that by 2035 all new cars sold in California will have to be electric. Absolutely no fossil fueled cars can be sold.

 

I have a few observations and questions. So, is this the same state which regularly suffers rolling blackouts because too many people turn on their air conditioners at the same time? What would happen if several million people turned on their ACs and attempted to recharge their electric cars at the same time? Recent reports also reveal that they would need at least a million charging stations to have any chance of dealing with that number of electric cars. 

 

California also has regular forest and brush fires that interrupt power transmission. That would be a big problem. 

 

Here's another question. What about the diesel powered semis that haul goods all over the country? Will they be allowed in California? If not, how will California ship their produce and goods to other parts of the country? How would they receive goods from other parts of the country?

 

I haven't even mentioned ships coming into that state's ports. Or the gillions of airplanes that take off and land there or the trains that regularly come and go.

 

I think you all are getting the big picture here. I learned very early in life a simple truth. Wishing will not make it so. 

 

Someday in the future I believe we will probably have new and different power sources. I don't know if our cars will be electric. It would make sense. But, and this is a big but, we would have to be ready for the change. It is not going to happen overnight. It will take years to establish the necessary charging stations and to reduce the time it takes to recharge. The price of these new vehicles is going to have to come down and come down a lot. 

 

Personally I would love to have an electric car. As long as I can travel from place to place without running out of battery before I can find a charger. Also, as long as I can replace my battery without having to take out a mortgage on my home. They cost almost as much as the cars. By the way, the last hurricane we had shut the power off for several days. Can you imagine the problem that would cause? 

 

We need leaders who understand how much fossil fuel is necessary to produce electricity. 

 

Simply put, we need leaders with common sense. Newsom's declaration will look sillier and sillier as we get nearer to 2035. He's running for President and his own family is sending money to his possible opponent and has moved to Florida. What does that tell you? He came very close to being recalled by his own state. 

 

If electric cars are our future, fine. But we have to be ready and we are not close. And…wishing will not make it so.

 

Ron Scarbro September 5, 2022 

 

UPDATE….Newsome was on TV last week asking people to not charge their cars for a while. With the hot summer, they are running out of power. Hmmmmm…. could this be an omen of things to come? What a moron.