POLITICAL DIRTY TRICKS OF THE LOWEST KIND

By now everyone has heard of the allegations of this professor from California regarding Brett Kavanaugh. She claims that during a party when they were teenagers she was sexually abused by Kavanaugh. This would have been over thirty years ago. She further claims that she had only remembered the event recently during a psychological session when it magically came back to her. She claims Kavanaugh and a friend of his were “stumbling” drunk, incidentally she admits to also being drunk, and they tried to take her clothes off but she managed to escape.

Both Kavanaugh and this friend categorically and emphatically deny the allegation. In addition, some sixty-five ladies who were all together during the period in question have written glowing letters of support for the Judge suggesting that he was always a consummate gentleman and in their view incapable of the act for which he has been accused.

So, what do we think? The allegation is either true or it is a lie. If it is true, Christine Ford has a right to be heard. If it is a lie, both she and her Democrat operatives who are pushing this, should be ashamed. To me it stinks of dirty politics of the worst kind. Senator Feinstein, who was allegedly given this information, sat on it for several months waiting for the right time to drop it on the American people.

Of course the Democrats, the party of Bill Clinton, Teddy Kennedy, Al Franken, and Keith Ellison, are up in arms. What they want above all else is to see Kavanaugh not confirmed. Their second choice is to delay a vote on the confirmation until after the midterms so that Democrat Senators won’t have to vote. Many “red state” Democrats know that if they don’t vote to confirm him, they could be in serious trouble with their own constituencies. This whole deal stinks to high Heaven.

Here’s my question. If the allegation is true, what then? Are we as a nation going to punish a man who has lived an exemplary life for acts he may have committed as a teenager? And by the way, there is no way on earth to prove this act ever even took place. If this is nothing more than a political dirty trick, it is sadistically brilliant. While the accusations cannot be proven, the denial cannot be either. This is classic “he said, she said” and wouldn’t even be permitted in a court of law. The reality is she can only accuse. Is the accusation enough to ruin this man? If it is, we the people should be ashamed.

My next question is what if this is all a lie? What if it is just a political dirty trick of the lowest kind?  Dr. Ford has finally agreed to appear before the Committee to give her version of this event, but only under some very strange circumstances. For example she says Kavanaugh must go first. What? I heard one legal expert say that would be like swinging at a pitch before it is thrown.  And no reporters will be allowed to be present. In addition only certain people will be allowed to ask questions. She also is demanding another FBI investigation. Kavanaugh has been investigated by the FBI six times already. They have refused to do it again. Such an investigation would take several months. Well past the midterms. Hmmm. Sorta makes you wonder, huh?

Finally, Ford’s attorneys and handlers are all Democrat activists who are on record as part of the “Trump resistance.”

Like so many others, I don’t believe this hearing is a search for truth. Truth has nothing to do with this accusation. This is just a Democrat tactic to undermine the will of the American people and to destroy what appears to be a very fine gentleman. If we let this happen, shame on us.

Ron Scarbro

IT BOGGLES THE MIND

I admit to being a “gee whiz” kind of guy. I am always amazed by what we can do today and how far we have come in such a short time.

A few years back I wrote of a trip my wife and I took, driving from our then home in Minnesota to Yellowstone National Park. We were driving along the highway which paralleled the same route taken by early settlers headed west in wagons. On that particular day it was pouring down rain and at the same time it was very warm, maybe in the 90s. I became aware that I was traveling at about seventy miles per hour, had my windshield wipers on intermittent, and had my cruise control set, and had my stereo radio playing beautiful music. Of course, we had our air conditioner on as well.

As I was deep in thought about the miracles I was experiencing, my cell phone rang. It was my brother calling, incidentally from his cell phone, while he was also traveling from his home in Los Angeles to the Grand Canyon National Park.

Now, just think about that. Here we are, two automobiles, two thousand miles apart, traveling on the open road, occupied by two individuals having a telephone conversation in real time. It’s enough to boggle the mind. Had one of those settlers on his wagon been able to look over and see us, what would he have thought? I leave that to your imagination.

The reason I recall that event was the storm of this past week. Since moving here to the southern Georgia coast, we have experienced two hurricanes and a named tropical storm. All of that in just the past two years.

In the days before the storms I was acutely aware that the weather was beautiful. The winds were calm and the sun was shining. There was no indication of any storm brewing anywhere let alone just off our coast. The only reason we knew anything was the weather service with their radar and sensing equipment watching the storms and their movement. They knew and reported where the storm was, how intense it was, how fast it was moving and in what direction. We were given ample notice to move inland and thereby suffered no appreciable harm.

Imagine if you were an early American, native or otherwise, who had set up camp on the coast to catch some fish, dig some clams, and otherwise provide for his family. There would have been no way you could have known what was just off the coast until it was too late. I wonder how many died in storms like we have just experienced.  

To coin a phrase, “We’ve come a long way baby.”

I recall my early life. I spent my first few years in a home with no indoor plumbing. We had no running water. We had to run and get it. Baths were taken in huge tubs sitting beside the wood burning stove. They didn’t happen that often either. Water was heated on that stove. We didn’t have a refrigerator. We had instead an ice box. The ice man would come and bring us ice based on the sign we put in the window which alerted him to how much we needed. We didn’t know that wasn’t normal. It is no wonder people died of old age at sixty.   

Look at us today and what we have accomplished in just the last few years. Imagine with me where we will be in the next few years. We may well be like the old settler in his wagon looking over at my automobile. Be happy and glad we have what we have today. We are living longer, healthier lives. And the future, well it boggles the mind.

Ron Scarbro

THE RIGHT TO BE WRONG

How great it is to be an American. We are guaranteed by our Constitution life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We have choices. When we come to an intersection in the road, we get to decide whether to turn right, left, back up, go straight ahead, or just stop all together. We are free people.

Having the freedom to choose doesn’t guarantee that we will make the right decision every time however. In fact you can look back over your life and know that every decision you have ever made has brought you to where you are. It is possible that on an occasion when you turned to the left and went on your way, things could have been very different had you turned right.

Today our country is in turmoil. In my lifetime I have never seen such discord and disarray. We seem to be letting our political differences split us at the seams.

One very serious split is represented by the selection of Supreme Court judges. One of the main reasons I voted for Donald Trump was upcoming Supreme Court appointments. I believe the absolute best chance for our country to survive lies with the Supreme Court and it must be filled with patriotic constitutionalists who can read and understand the simple words in our Constitution and our Bill of Rights, and make rulings based entirely on what the Constitution has to say. It is not a “living” document. Politics should have no place in the Supreme Court. Who could be opposed to that?

Sadly there does seem to be some definite opposition to not only President Trump’s pick for the Court but to the Constitution as well. As I have watched the charade going on in Washington dealing with Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation, I am embarrassed for the Democrats and for the country. Some of those potential Presidential candidates for 2020 have taken moronic behavior to a new low. If you can watch Senators Corey “Spartacus” Booker and Kamala Harris and think they represent America, you would be mistaken. They represent the fringe of this country both on the east and west coast. The vast middle of America is a completely different place. We are center right politically and becoming even more to the right. Fringe, fanatic, far left politics is un-American and should be identified as just that.

Did you hear Canadian Jim Carrey recently bragging about socialism? Someone should tell him that if socialism should ever take hold in this country his entire net worth, approximately 150 million dollars, would be taken away from him and redistributed to people who, according to Carrey’s own words, need to be taken care of. Maybe Carrey should consider taking himself back to his socialist utopia, Canada, if he is so uncomfortable here. If the Hollywood “elite,” as they like to call themselves, spent just a moment to study what socialism is really all about, they might come away with a different attitude. Maybe a quick trip to Cuba or Venezuela could realign their thinking.  

America is nearing three hundred years of age. Granted we have made some mistakes over these many years, but we have survived and we continue to thrive. We do so because of our Constitution and our way of life. It doesn’t need to be “fundamentally” changed as a recent former President called for. We just need to continue to grow.

I love the fact that we have choices and we must continue to guard against anyone wanting to take choice away from us. Election Day is coming soon. Choose wisely my friends. We have the right to be right and the right to be wrong.

Ron Scarbro

WHAT IS RACISM?

In recent times the word “racism” has been thrown around a lot. It has seemed to be the normal response when there is a disagreement about any individual when that individual is of a different race.

Hillary and her campaign used it to describe anyone who opposed her run for the Presidency. Obama stooges used the term to define anyone who opposed Obama on any issue. Pro illegal immigration forces use the word a lot to identify anyone who doesn’t agree with them. If you oppose the illegal entry into this country by anyone at any time, you must be a racist.

Well today I am going to cite you some facts to see if maybe you too are a racist. Let’s start with crime. More specifically violent crime. Using the government’s own statistics, young black men are responsible for eighty percent of the violent crimes committed in this country. Now let me remind you, the entire black population represents about twelve to thirteen percent of the population. So then eighty percent of violent crime is committed by young black men under twenty- five years of age out of a population of thirteen percent of the entire population. Do you see a pattern here? Did you also know that over seventy percent of black babies are born out of wedlock? They are then raised by single mothers with little or no father influence and many, if not most, are on government assistance.

Does pointing out these facts make me a racist? Or is any reporting of the facts which identifies one race or another mean the reporter is racist? Is the government being racist by reporting this data? I recall recently there was an individual who was accosting women in a major mall parking lot and trying to rob them. When the alert went out over the television network, they refused to identify whether the individual was white, black, Asian, Hispanic, male or female or anything in between. Apparently to have reported any of those details would have been prejudicial.

Reality can sometimes be difficult. It seems that “political correctness” forbids identifying anyone by their race or their gender. I don’t know about you, but for me if there’s a killer/rapist running loose in the neighborhood and police are looking for that offender, the better description available makes that offender easier to find. If the killer/rapist is offended being described by his ethnicity or gender, that’s just too bad.

And to those among you who continue to offer excuses for the runaway crime committed by these young black men, how do you explain all this?

If you are a law-abiding tax-paying member of the black community, how do you feel when so many young black men commit crime? Do you look the other way? Or do you understand that the statistics which I used earlier in this piece reflect on your entire community. When I turn on the local evening news I am bombarded with the latest shootings and killings. Granted, not all of the shootings are done by black youngsters, but far too many are.

I also hear people cry and moan about police shootings especially of young black men. There is a simple way to greatly cut down on such shootings. Quit committing crimes. Quit dressing and acting like a thug. Respect police officers when they contact you. Don’t resist arrest. When a cop says stop, stop. When he says go, you go. Like it or not, the police officers are the law and they have the authority to retain you and inconvenience you. Deal with it as an adult and you will likely go home unscathed. Put up a fight and you’ll likely suffer the consequences.

If you read this and come away thinking I am a racist for reporting facts, I am sorry you feel that way. The only way to fix a problem is to first recognize the problem. It isn’t going to fix itself.

Ron Scarbro

TIME TO PUT THE HAMMER DOWN

I have a confession to make. I watch a lot of reality cop shows on TV. My wife says I have too much time on my hands, but I tell her it is all for research. I don’t think I convinced her but I have learned some very interesting things which I would like to share with you.

Most of the individuals that police encounter seem to be regulars. In other words, most seem to have long records of arrest and conviction. I saw one case recently where the bad guy had a record of eighteen arrests with seven convictions for crimes such as drug usage, drug selling, armed robbery, armed felonious assault, felon in possession of a gun, and felonious flight to avoid prosecution. The big surprise was that he was only twenty years old. This arrest was for murder.

I have a simple question. Why wasn’t this clown in prison? What does one have to do to be put away for a long time? Had this particular thug been put in prison for twenty or thirty years as he should have been, perhaps his victim might still be alive. This was not an isolated situation. It happens time and again.

I am also amazed by the number of people pulled over by police who do not have valid driver’s licenses or auto insurance. Almost invariably the odor of marijuana comes from their car. When searched, more drugs are usually found and one hears the same response. They’re not my drugs, this isn’t my car, even though you found drugs in my pockets, these aren’t my clothes, etc. etc.

Another bit of information that catches my attention is the fact that many of the people stopped have warrants out for their arrests. Some have many, many warrants. Why is that? How is it possible that people wanted by the police are freely roaming the streets? Are the police so busy that they cannot go out and arrest those who have warrants?

The punk who was arrested for killing that beautiful young girl in Iowa was here illegally. There is no pretty way of stating this. If he wasn’t here, she may well still be alive. And he has been living here for several years. This was a preventable crime. No amount of liberal excuses and alibis can change that fact.

My final points I want to share have to do with the way some people react to police when they are stopped. I often see total disrespect both for the police officers and for the law. Individuals stopped for burned out tail lights, or headlights, no brake lights, speeders, reckless drivers, any of a number of possible crimes are often offended. So offended they sometimes refuse to comply. They argue, they fight, and sometimes they try to run. The police are not mind readers. They don’t know why offenders refuse to comply. Could they have just committed murder, robbery, whatever? What should they then do? If they use physical force the police themselves are often in trouble. Meanwhile the bad guys are laughing at the rest of us.

We are being told that prisons are overcrowded. Probably. We are offered any number of excuses why criminals are turned back out on the streets, but none of this nonsense makes any difference when they finally commit the ultimate act of violence.

As a free society based on law and order, we have an obligation to punish when laws are broken. If we don’t have enough prisons, we need to build more. We are not doing anybody a favor when youngsters, many of whom have little or no parental guidance, are arrested for crimes and the system refuses to punish them. They don’t get to learn a valuable lesson that if you do the crime, you do the time. It is past time to put the hammer down.

Ron Scarbro

A VILLAGE OF MORONS

A few years ago Hillary Clinton made the statement that it takes a village to raise a child. So, what does that mean? Does she think that parents are not capable of raising their own children? Probably. Does she think the government would be a better parent? Probably.

I mentioned the Hillary statement because of a bill that was introduced in the California Legislature, Senate Bill 1192, introduced by Senator Bill Monning, Democrat, of course, which regulates restaurants and their serving drinks to children. Now I am not talking about liquor. No, I am talking about juice and soft drinks. Henceforth, independent restaurants, formerly known as private businesses, can only serve milk or water to children. No soda or juice. This is purported to be an attempt to stem “childhood obesity.” Actually it is nothing more than “nanny state” bullying. Incidentally, the Legislature passed the bill and it awaits Gov. “Moonbeam” Brown’s signature.

Now let’s see if I have this right. Youngsters who, when walking to school, have to step over discarded used hypodermic needles, human waste, and sleeping homeless bums, but will be doing so in a healthier manner because they haven’t been poisoned by Pepsi Cola or orange juice. Also they haven’t taken that poison through a plastic straw. Wow, is that great or what?  Kinda gives you a warm fuzzy feeling, huh?

California, who has blessed this country with the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, will now show the rest of the country how to deal with childhood obesity. Taking over the reins of parenthood seems to be the goal. How about we just take all the children away from these ignorant parents and warehouse them in internment camps where government regulators can control their diets and their drink choices. They could then be sent to re-education classes where they could be taught the glories of progressive socialism without the ugliness of personal responsibility and the rule of law. To the morons in that once beautiful state this must look like utopia. In my research of this new law, I read many comments from supporters of this power grab by liberals. It was truly sad to read how many think this is a good idea.

As a former resident and now an outside observer of the California mess, I am astounded. California is drowning in debt from unpaid boondoggles past and present. That state has been run by democrats for many years and it has only gotten worse. California remains one of the highest taxed states in the country and still they cannot raise enough revenue to pay for all their nonsense. They are being invaded by illegal aliens and homeless masses. Once beautiful, clean cities and beaches are being destroyed by the filth of overpopulation and homeless drug abusers. Traffic has always been terrible and it has only gotten worse as the infrastructure has crumbled. The mountains are burning up and they are suffering water shortages. Without water from neighboring states, their once profitable agriculture will continue to wither.

Here’s the real problem for California. This country is not going to bail you out. You, with your choice of lawmakers, made this mess, and you are going to have to clean it up. Instead of fiddling around with soft drinks and plastic straws, your legislature needs to be figuring out ways to stay afloat.

Please, good people of California. You are still in America and America is still a free county. You are going to have to come to the understanding that liberal democrat policies just don’t work. To my lovely friends and relatives living there, stand up and scream. If you sit still and don’t act, once gorgeous California is going to disappear over a cliff. It used to be such a beautiful place.

Get rid of the morons who are destroying your home before it is too late.

Ron Scarbro

SOCIALISM AND OTHER MORONIC NONSENSE

Ever hear of Cynthia Nixon? Me either until just recently when it was announced that she would be running for Governor of New York. She is an actress who is an avowed socialist. I do have one thing in common with her however, we are both married to a woman. Of course my marriage is a little different in that I am a man. But I guess that is a story for another time. If New York elects her, they deserve what they get. It has been reported that she even makes Cuomo look good by comparison.

Speaking of socialists. How about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? She defeated a longtime incumbent democrat Congressman in the Queens area of New York City in the primary election. She has been all over the media with wild eyed programs of free stuff for all. From college education to health care. It will all be free. There are a few problems however with all her talk. Most, if not all of her programs, are completely unworkable and impossible. When asked to appear on a nationally syndicated program hosted by Ben Shapiro for a debate, she refused claiming the request was a catcall and sexist. She was also fact checked by the Washington Post who found most of her claims to be untrue, she again claimed the Post was just being sexist. I guess if you don’t agree with her wild-eyed nonsense, you must be a sexist. I confess. That’s me.

Here’s a thought. For all you socialists out there who are either running for office or thinking about it, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, et al, there should be a law requiring that you spend thirty days in Venezuela. When you return, maybe you might have a different opinion about how governments should be run.  

More stuff to think about. Our Congress is getting “frustrated” with the Justice Department because they won’t release documents Congress has subpoenaed. Attention Congress, our Constitution has given you the most powerful weapon of all in bringing any and all agencies of government in line. It is called the checkbook. You have the power of the purse. That’s a little like a taser. Effective but not fatal. Use it and watch Justice or any other department obey the rules. Failure to use your power is a dereliction of duty.

And this final rant. A new elementary school in Kansas City has decided, in their wisdom, to make their bathrooms “gender neutral.”  Their explanation is that they want the bathroom experience to be more open and less restrictive for either boys or girls. In other words, youngsters shouldn’t have to decide whether they are boys or girls or maybe even something else when they to go to the bathroom. The bathrooms will be a common area.

Well, I’ve got some news for the people who have come up with this ingenious new program. Neutral means no substantial difference. A neutral country doesn’t favor either side in a war, for example. A neutral color for paint means it will go with about anything. In other words, no substantial difference.

There are substantial differences between boys and girls and those differences are there for a very good reason. Were it not for those differences, the human race would have long ago come to an end. Gender difference has existed since time began and no amount of liberal history revision is going to change that. Oh, and speaking of weird, California is experimenting with gender neutral showers for kids. What could possibly go wrong with that? Sometimes I wake up wondering if I am on a different planet.

I will close with this. There is a serious price to be paid for the excesses being practiced by some in this world. God help us.

Ron Scarbro