WE NEED TO GET THIS OVER WITH

The FBI has been involved in a criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton and other members of her criminal enterprise for well over a year. It is not now nor has it ever been a “security review” or whatever Hillary calls it. It is a criminal investigation. All during this investigation there have been little leaks released which clearly would lead any thinking person to the conclusion that indictments were on the horizon.

At the same time this criminal investigation is going on, Hillary is running for President. It boggles the mind.

The first point I want to make is this. The FBI doesn’t go through these types of investigations without good reason. There is now and there has been sufficient   evidence to conclude that crimes have been committed. And not just with the e-mail scandal. There is evidence that favors were bought and paid for by foreign governments and foreign individuals as well as our own citizens while Hillary was Secretary of State. That money has been dutifully deposited in the catch-all cesspool known as “The Clinton Foundation” which incidentally is being managed by Chelsea Clinton for a salary of $3,000,000 per year. The dirty money in this so-called fund is in the hundreds of millions.

And so the Democrats wait for the other shoe to fall. Obama had withheld his endorsement of Hillary waiting for the coast to clear. Joe Biden is crossing his fingers. Bernie doesn’t know what to think. He knows that the system is rigged against him but he also knows that she may well be in an orange jumpsuit by Election Day. Meanwhile the country waits.

Attention FBI Director James Comey, quit slow walking this investigation. If you have a case, get the indictments and serve them. Attention Justice Dept. Stop looking for ways to excuse this criminal activity and get on with the jobs you are supposed to do. It is obvious to anyone who pays attention that Hillary Clinton has violated the law and exposed this country and our top secrets to foreign eyes. There is little doubt also that the Clintons have become obscenely wealthy by selling access and favors to anyone who is willing to pay the price. By withholding the information from the American people, the FBI is exposing us all to a huge problem.

Here is what will happen. If, after all that has been leaked, Hillary isn’t indicted, there will be riots in the street. If the FBI waits much longer in this election year to release their findings and she is indicted, there will be riots in the street by both Bernie fans and Hillary fans. Quite frankly it is unfair to all parties to slow walk this investigation.

Personally I don’t give a “tinker’s damn” if Hillary is inconvenienced. I don’t even care if the Democrats are thrown into a bigger mess than they already have. My concern is for this country. The sight of a Presidential candidate doing the “perp” walk in an orange jumpsuit, while appealing to many of us, would be horrendous to the country’s psyche. I worry about the financial markets. The sooner this is dealt with and past us, the better for all concerned. Hillary doesn’t have the grace to do the right thing and bow out. She is going to wait for the judicial system to bow her out. Oh well.

To those of you who don’t believe this country will prosecute Hillary, let me give you this bit of truth. If we don’t, the very idea of law and order will be thrown out of the windows. The Justice Dept. will have no choice. We just need to get this over with.

Ron Scarbro

MORE ON GUN CONTROL

When I was seventeen years old and still awaiting graduation from high school, I joined the Army. They allowed me to stay on in school until I graduated.

Within days of my induction, and still a seventeen year old kid, I was assigned a weapon. It was an M1 rifle. We were required to take our rifle with us wherever we went. At night our weapons were stacked up in formation for easy and rapid reach in the event of an emergency. The fact that this was peacetime made no difference.

Again, within days of my being assigned a rifle, I began my training in the use of this rifle. There were endless hours of training in care and cleaning of the weapon as well as hours of “dry firing” to get used to the trigger pull and the proper stance when firing. I listened and I paid attention to the instructions. Also during my eight week basic training I was required to learn and shoot many other types of weaponry such as .45 caliber handguns, machine guns of several calibers as well as hand grenades.

Next we were taken to the gun range where we were finally allowed to actually shoot the weapons. Some days we had firing line duty where we shot the targets and some days we had target duty where we erected the targets and repaired them after the shooting. It was hot, June at Ft. Benning, Georgia, and it was tiring.

But, because I had paid attention as well as having been involved with hunting most of my life, I was a very successful shooter. I qualified as, what the Army designated, “Expert.” I was awarded a medal to affix to my uniform. Later on during my service, I was assigned to a military rifle team where I was involved in shooting competitions. It was great duty.

In addition to the above military training I also have attended and graduated from the NRA gun safety school as well as a sixteen week civilian police academy where I was trained in police tactics and weapon use.

Now why am I telling you all of this? The first thing I want you to know is this. I am qualified to carry and operate weaponry of many kinds and calibers. The second thing is that there are literally millions of us in this country with similar experiences. Many if not most of us are armed. Many if not most of us would be ready and available to take up arms to defend this country and our way of life at a moment’s notice.

When some little slick haired, “metrosexual” politician with shiny manicured nails tells me that I shouldn’t have the right to carry or use guns, I am insulted. Most of these so-called leaders in office today have never had any kind of military service. Many are  protected by armed bodyguards. Our own President doesn’t have a clue and even worse than that, he refuses to listen to the military experts who are there to advise him. There is no one at any position in life or office who is qualified to tell me that I should not be allowed to carry and use guns.

The Second Amendment guarantees my right to have guns. That right is there to protect me and this country from our own government and from these little politicians who think they run the show.

Since the shooting in Orlando, the noise has gotten louder. The liberals are screaming for gun control. They can’t stand the fact that I have the right and the weaponry to defend myself. To them all I have this to say. You better hope that I and others like me will be there to take care of business should the need ever arise. You cannot have my guns. I will never allow you to take away my ability to defend myself. So, get over it.

Ron Scarbro

NOT NOW AND NOT EVER

And so it begins again. Some low life radical Islamist terrorist walks into a nightclub which caters to homosexuals and starts shooting, hitting well over one hundred individuals, killing so far forty-eight, before meeting his only possible fate, that of being gunned down by police.

A brief examination of the facts shows that the gunman obviously chose this target because, one, it was full of homosexuals, and two, the target would be soft because no one there would be armed making his the only gun.

Under Sharia law homosexual acts are not only illegal, but are punishable by death. In fact most Middle Eastern countries which are predominantly Muslim and under Sharia law enforce this law by liberally using the death penalty for homosexuals. Killing homosexuals is encouraged and ordained by this ancient law. You want to go to Heaven? You want your seventy plus virgins waiting for you? Just kill a homosexual. The more you kill, the greater your place is in Heaven.

I say again, and so it begins. What I am referring to is the incessant talk of gun control. Obama, instead of identifying the killer as a radical Islamist, concerned himself more with the fact that the killer had a gun. Hillary has and will use this opportunity to rail against advocates of the Second Amendment. These liberal morons cannot bring themselves to understand that whether this clown had a gun or just a bomb made of household cleansers, his intent was to kill and kill he was going to do.

I have a simple question. What if, in the crowd of over three hundred attendees at the nightclub, ten or fifteen of them had conceal carry permits and were armed. What if they took out their weapons and mowed down the shooter early in his assault? Remember this killer shot over a hundred times which means he had to stop and reload several times during the assault. We have heard it before and it bears repeating. The only way to stop a gun is with a gun. The time for negotiating and conversation has ended. The time for shooting back has begun. Unless you can run at 3800 feet per second, you cannot outrun a fired bullet.

The answer is clear. Instead of there being too many guns, as the liberals would have you believe, the people in this nightclub suffered from there not being enough guns.

Over the coming months there will be investigations of this shooter and his associates. His family will be investigated as well as all of his friends. We will doubtlessly learn that he was already a radical Muslim. We will learn that he hated all that this country stands for. In his self righteous mind we will learn that he felt justified in killing homosexuals or anybody else that he thought might be infidels. We will learn that some were suspicious of him but could not bring themselves to report on his activities because of “political correctness.”

The liberals will, of course, figure out a way to blame America for this moron. We were not nice enough to him and his kind or we didn’t let in enough of his relatives as refugees. We are just too mean and we deserve the retribution of the ancient Muslim world.

Here is some bad news for that Muslim world. Eventually we may to have to go over there and end their existence. Either they clean up their acts and learn to coexist with the modern world, or they will meet their virgins much earlier than they expect. We will never revert to the seventh century. We will never submit to their Sharia Law.

This final note to the gun control advocates. We, the American people, protected as we are by the Second Amendment, will never turn over our guns to anybody. You got that? Never to anybody. Not now and not ever.

Ron Scarbro

THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR HONOR

I was watching Congressman Jason Chaffetz, R. Utah this morning talking about illegal aliens who have been convicted of crimes, sentenced to jail, and then released when their sentence is served. These convicts are not deported as the law requires but rather just released back onto our streets. Mr. Chaffetz was upset and concerned as he should be. When asked by the interviewer why this was happening and what Congress was doing about it, Chaffetz said, “They don’t give us handcuffs. We refer it to the Justice Department.”

Wrong answer. This is classic passing of the buck. The fact is the Congress has something much better than handcuffs. They control the purse strings. Jason Chaffetz is Chairman of the House Oversight Committee and as such has authority that puts handcuffs to shame, so go out and oversee. The problem is simple. The Congress, a Republican majority duly elected by the people for the purpose of reining in uncontrollable government excess, isn’t doing their job.

I get weekly emails from my Congressman citing all the problems facing us as a country. What I don’t hear from him is how we are going to solve them. I know about the problems. What I want to hear is what are we going to do about them.

It is no wonder that the electorate is upset. We elected a Republican Congress for the purpose of controlling Barack Obama and his minions and they are just not getting it done and now they want to be re-elected to continue the “fight.”

The liberal policies of the past seven years are destroying our economy and the Congress is just sitting by and allowing it to continue. Obamacare has been described as the biggest single deterrent to progress in our economy in recent history. The unemployment numbers are pure fiction. Illegal aliens are overrunning our borders and now Obama wants to allow Syrian “refugees” into this country without proper vetting.

We are also now learning that our own government lied to us in order to get this “Mickey Mouse” so-called treaty signed with Iran. Where is our Congressional oversight? While all of this is happening the media is busy tearing up the presses reporting on bathroom parity. It’s like I woke up on the other side of the universe. If I see a man going into a public restroom where my wife, daughter, or granddaughter has just entered, he is going to have a much bigger problem than where to tinkle. Just saying.

All this having been said, I happen to like Jason Chaffetz. I like many of the people we have elected to Congress. We just have to insist they do the jobs they were hired to do. Our continued success as a country isn’t guaranteed.  It requires constant monitoring and effort. We are a law and order country. Nobody gets to break the law and nobody gets to choose just what laws they will obey regardless of their rank or station in life. People like the Clintons, who continue to rape and pillage the world for their own gain, must be put away. We have prisons for lawbreakers and we need to use them.

I am getting to be an old man. I have never before seen the mess we have gotten ourselves into. There is no substitute for honor and law. To those of you who still support Hillary, shame on you. Your blindness to her criminal activity will come back and haunt you if she stays out of prison.

Readers of this blog, contact your Representatives and insist they take care of business. They were hired for a specific purpose. They have to turn this runaway train around. The country you save may well be your own.

Ron Scarbro

IN MEMORY OF...

Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? That haunting question has been asked over the years. That is the subject for my Memorial Day column.

Every day we grow older. Our friends and loved ones grow older too. I look in the paper every day to see the birthdays. The heroes from my youth are listed. They are celebrating birthdays of eighty and ninety years. Tarzan at eighty? Are you kidding me? Once the love of my life, Debbie Reynolds, a senior citizen. But, why shouldn’t they get older, I am. The good news is that so many of them are still around. It is sad to consider that many never see their senior years.

Of course, I am also now a senior citizen. But I remember one day as a small child,  I saw my grandmother all dressed up and it wasn’t even Sunday. I asked her where she was going. She said today is “Decoration Day” and we are going to the cemetery to decorate graves of our loved ones and our military heroes. That day is now known as Memorial Day. The day set aside to remember our friends and loved ones who have passed on.

Today I think about the many friends and loved ones who have gone on. I still miss them. I still think about them. I also think today about the friends I have who are suffering illnesses. Some very serious. Mike is going through his fourth cancer. Jack just had triple bypass surgery. Jerry is suffering from macular degeneration. My brother has had one bout with cancer as well as both knees replaced. My sister just had a hip replacement. Others too numerous to name are, or soon will be, in the same boat. “Time and tide wait for no man.” Time marches on. The machine that is our body begins to break down from use and abuse. In times past when we talked on the phone, it was usually about sports, or other friends, or other mundane events. Now it is all about the latest doctor visit or the latest prescription. I never thought I would see the day.

When a friend or loved one dies, it hurts. It hurts deeply. Sometimes you might ask, wouldn’t I have been better off if I never knew that person rather than suffer the pain of their loss. Then the flood of memories comes back. The fun times. The fishing trips. Just the times when we were together. I think how my life would have been less having never known them. I have long believed that one of the penalties of living a long life is suffering the loss of old friends and loved ones. None of us are going to get out of this life alive.

And so, we remember. We have Memorial Day set aside for remembering. I suspect most of us don’t need a special day to remember. We do so automatically. I know I do. In remembering the old friends and loved ones, I smile. I smile at the memories I have. I remember the antics of my grandfather. It used to drive my mother crazy. He was the devil in the flesh according to her. But he was the greatest kind of grandpa a kid like me could have. He took us fishing and taught us how to catch the big ones. They got mad at him because he would occasionally have a beer in front of the kids. When they griped, he would just put another chew of tobacco in his mouth and grin. I still miss him.

Today is a day of memories. I hope yours are as sweet as mine. I also hope when I am gone, someone will have good memories of me.

Ron Scarbro

THE KING AND HIS COURT

Over the past few Presidential elections it has become clear to me that Presidents are chosen by a few big densely populated states and major cities. That’s the way the system seems to work. Those states have huge populations and they are predominantly Democrats.

Our House of Representatives, on the other hand, is based on the population of all the states. There are 435 voting members of Congress each representing a Congressional District. The Senate is made up of two Senators from each state thereby totaling 100 Senators.

Our Constitution allows for three branches of government. The Executive which would be the President, the Legislative which is the Congress, and the Judicial, those being the Judges and the courts. Each branch has a specific job and specific responsibilities. It is not now nor has it ever been the job of the Executive Branch to make laws. That job is left to the Congress. It is not now nor has it ever been the job of the Judiciary to make laws either.

The election of Obama started the country in a different direction. A direction the majority disapproved of. While he was elected President, he decided to be King. He has chosen to ignore law and the Constitution. The people then decided to slow down this egomaniacal would-be King by electing a Republican Congress. That appears not to have worked out so well.  This newly elected Congress of Republicans has decided to be the “King’s Court” instead of doing their real job of holding the reins on Obama. Is it any wonder that outsiders are dominating the election conversation today?

I can’t speak for the majority of Americans but I think a lot of people would agree with me that we are headed in the wrong direction. Of all the problems facing us today, Obama chooses to get involved in an issue that affects approximately .003% of our population, those being transgendered people. His issuance of edicts, which he sees as completely legal, are wrong headed and unenforceable. The people are not going to give up their privacy in the public bathrooms nor are they going to allow that privacy to be compromised in schools. The people are and will continue just to say no.

Obama has signed an illegal treaty with Iran which is completely unenforceable. Now it turns out that the press was lied to and coerced into supporting this illegal treaty. As an aside, it doesn’t seem too difficult to coerce the press into believing the Obama White House. Incidentally all of this has happened while the “King’s Court” stood by and allowed it to happen.

Obama is denuding the military by firing our best Generals. He has always refused to listen or take advice from them so now he seems to believe it is easier just to fire them.

Twenty-six states have sued the Federal Government over an Obama edict allowing for the citizenship of illegal aliens. In court hearings, government lawyers lied to a Federal Judge concerning this edict. They told the judge that no one had yet applied or been processed for this new citizenship. That turns out to be a lie. In fact over 100,000 individuals have already been processed. The judge is rightly upset. A number of lawyers could face serious legal problems.

One of Obama’s henchmen, John Koskinen, the head of the IRS is facing impeachment for his illegal actions. The smart money says he will be found guilty and could face prison time.

Another of Obama’s toadies, Hillary Clinton, is barely staying ahead but losing in her fight to stay out of prison. What’s going to get her is the Mickey Mouse foundation she and Bill are using to amass wealth for themselves. She is a short timer in the world of politics.

The people are fed up. The King and his court are in serious trouble. If any Congressperson wants to keep their job, they better get busy and do it.

Ron Scarbro

HAVE WE GONE STARK RAVING MAD?

The Obama Administration has handed down a new edict. Henceforth and forever after, public schools must allow individuals the use of the bathrooms and locker facilities based not on their gender but on their perception of their gender. This edict covers all public schools from elementary through college.

Hmmm. What could possibly go wrong with this latest bit of ridiculous nonsense coming from the infertile minds of brainless leftist morons? Let us consider the first evil thought that comes to mind. What if a teacher, male or female, decided to go over to the other side, in other words, mentally change sexes, and visit the bathroom of the opposite sex? How about the locker room and shower? Would you be okay with that? Under this proclamation from Obama, no evidence or proof is necessary for one’s declaration of sexual identity. Our history is replete with incidences of sexual perversion of adults on children.

Evil thought number two is much simpler. Let’s say a group of thirteen and fourteen year old boys decide to shower with the girls. All they have to do is say they are now transsexual and identify more with girls than with boys. According to the liberals, there is nothing wrong with that. How would you like your young teenage girls to be exposed to that scenario? Again I ask, what could possibly go wrong?

Taken to its logical conclusion, this edict has to include sports teams. Boys would be welcome on the girl’s team and vice versa. Since they are now sharing locker rooms and showers, this has to be the culmination of the liberal’s dream.

Have we gone stark raving mad? Boys and girls are different. They are different for a specific purpose. We, as humans, are a part of the animal kingdom. It used to be said that we were at the top of that kingdom, but now I’m not so sure. The difference between the sexes is for the sole purpose of reproduction. A male, regardless of his preference or choice cannot get pregnant. A female, regardless of her preference or choice cannot produce sperm and impregnate another female.

Now I understand there are homosexual males and females. That’s a mental condition, not a physical one. I raised livestock for many years and of the thousands of animals I have seen, and remember humans are also animals, I never saw a homosexual cow, pig, or horse. So then I conclude homosexuality must just be a human condition, or choice.

But wait Ron, transgendered people are not necessarily homosexual. Okay, whatever. Boys decide to be girls because they like their clothes? And girls decide to be boys because they get to ride motorcycles and drive pickup trucks? Maybe it’s just envy. One gender thinks the other has a better situation. Woody Allen, weirdo movie producer, once said that he would be a bisexual if for no other reason than to double his chances of getting a date. Again, whatever. These are questions better left to psychiatrists.

I am pleased to report to you that so far three states, Texas, Mississippi, and North Carolina have told the Feds that they will refuse to obey the new edict. Texas said they will not be blackmailed by the Obama Administration. The government’s response is that Federal money will be withheld for education. Where do you suppose the Federal Government gets their money? Why from the states, of course. What if Texas and the other states decide that future federal income tax will be sent directly to the states and not the Feds? Don’t forget, we have a tenth amendment to the Constitution. Oh, and Texas isn’t even a state. It’s a Republic.

This latest overreach by the Federal Government will fail and fail big. Sane and sensible people will take charge and the weenies who came up with this latest nonsense will fade into the dust heap of ridiculousness.

Ron Scarbro