ELECTION 2024

Okay, now we can really get ready for the election. DeSantis has decided to give it a go. Most experts will say that Trump has the nomination sewed up. What do you think?

 

 I think the left in this country will do anything to keep Trump out of the White House. Look at what they already have tried. Criminal charges, unlawful searches, embarrassing revelations of past affairs, true or not, and more on the way. They doubtless will try the same for DeSantis. These dirty tricks have less to do with truth and more to do with slander for political reasons. Why do they work so hard to defame Republican candidates? I think one reason is their lack of confidence in Democrat candidates. Let's face it, Biden is a zero and they know it. 

 

If this election is between Biden and Trump, who will you pick? I believe Trump was one of our more effective presidents in modern time, but he was under the gun from every left wing dingbat in Washington. If he is elected again it will only be worse. Why would the lefties leave him alone?

 

Many believe the last election was stolen from Trump. If that is so, why wouldn't it happen again?

 

I’m going to change the subject of this rant to another rant. As of this writing our extremely overrated Congress are playing dangerous and silly games with our economy, and the world’s economy for that matter. They are trying to make political brownie points with our debt limit ceiling vote. Here’s the problem, the money has already been spent. You didn’t spend it, I didn’t spend it, the Congress spent it. Now they are holding America and the rest of the world hostage while they try to get their faces on TV. It is all so totally unnecessary. You and I know they are not going to let this country go into default. Because if they did, they would be chased out of Washington with sticks. Let your congressman know that we have had enough of their silly games. They made the mess, now they need to clean it up without making it worse. The bill that is pending is a two-year reprieve. Then, of course, we have to go through this crap again. 

 

Back to the original subject. I just heard former Governor Christie of New Jersey is also running for the Republican presidential nomination. That only leaves me as the last Republican who hasn’t declared, and I am not a candidate. 

 

Election 2024 promises to be a very messy affair. Hopefully, and with God’s help, we can put a sane, patriotic Republican in the White House. 

 

Ron Scarbro, May 31, 2023

 

UNFORCED ERRORS

The term "unforced error" is used a lot in sports, especially tennis. Loosely defined it is a mistake made by someone who should know better. Often those mistakes are left to others to fix.

 

What's this got to do with what is happening in the world today, you ask? Well I'll tell you. On Biden's first official day in office, he committed his first of many unforced errors. With a stroke of his pen he set in motion one of the worst inflation periods this country has ever experienced. He basically declared war on the fossil fuel industry. Anybody with half a brain knows this country cannot exist without a liberal supply of fossil fuel. Biden, apparently bowing to the so-called progressive wing of his party, made this first unforced error.  Now the Federal Reserve is busily trying to unscrew Biden’s screw-up. I heard the chairman of the Federal Reserve say that the only way to get inflation under control is to raise interest rates. Trump was asked at a recent town hall what he would do to bring down inflation. His answer was clear, "Drill, baby, drill." Now there are a lot of people who are smarter than me, but I believe that is the answer. I don't see how raising the cost of everything with interest rate hikes, brings prices down. Maybe I needed a few more years of economics training.

 

Ever since Biden has been in office he seems determined to destroy everything Trump established. With his war on fossil fuel we are no longer energy independent. Obviously we need the fossil fuel. This then makes us beholding to countries who are not friendly to us. So now we are energy dependent.

 

Everything we have, whether it be food, clothing, or materials, is delivered to us using fossil fuels. Without doubt, if we survive as a human race, alternative fuels will be in our future but they’re not here now. 

 

Another unforced error is Biden’s handling of our southern border. There are more people trespassing across our border than we can imagine. They are bringing their poverty, their diseases, and their illegal drugs with them. Most of our southwest border cities are overwhelmed. Our hospital emergency rooms, our schools, our food kitchens, are inundated with non-citizens. We have to get a handle on this. This country can’t sustain the ongoing invasion of people from all over the world. We also cannot go into foreign countries trying to improve their standard of living so that their people will want to stay home.

 

I want to close this with this thought. Attention Democrats, everything that Trump did was not bad. In fact, most of it was very good. You decided to inflict Joe Biden on us and now we all see what that has caused. We have to end these errors, unforced or otherwise. We need competence in government and we need to get rid of Biden and his gang.

 

Ron Scarbro, May 15, 2023

 

THE BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATIONS

Having been born in East Tennessee, I have a southern accent. It is not as bad as it used to be, but it is still there. When I was a young adult, I moved to California. It became quickly apparent to me that I had to clean up my redneck accent. I felt it would hold me back in any job or business I tried. I watched the anchors on TV and tried to speak like them. It worked to a degree. 

 

Recently, on a road trip across Georgia, I saw a sign on a cattle ranch. It said, "You don't need teef to eat our beef." Cute, but probably offensive to many in the south who have southern accents. Many people associate the southern accent with ignorance. Nothing could be further from the truth. The first people that settled our country spoke with the same southern accent. I know of many people with northern accents who are morons. Remember when LBJ first became President? He sounded like he just fell off a turnip truck. I am truly surprised that the country accepted it as long as they did.

 

The reason I’m bringing all this up is that a high-ranking education official in California wants to change that state’s grading system. He doesn’t believe any student should fail regardless of their test answers. They should be graded on effort rather than results. Another part of this idiotic philosophy is he does not believe certain students should be required to learn or speak standard English. The obvious victims of this nonsense are minority kids. He seems to believe that ebonics is the legitimate language of black people.

 

So what could this lead to? Young black people will apply for jobs unable to speak or write proper English. The disadvantage is obvious. President George W Bush often talked about the soft bigotry of low expectations. It’s still bigotry, it’s still bias, and it still has the same result as hard core, overt prejudice.

 

I have often wondered how people like this California educator get into positions that allow them to affect policies of a state. He obviously hasn’t thought this through.

 

More and more every day we are seeing the need of parental involvement in schools. As parents, we are responsible for raising our children, not some school board sitting in an ivory tower somewhere. The future of our country is in the hands of our offspring. If and what that future holds will depend entirely on the preparation of our children to take over. Right now, I don’t feel so good about it.

 

Ron Scarbro, May 2, 2023