REPARATIONS, ARE YOU KIDDING?

Reparations, are you kidding? Hmmm. What does that mean? According to the dictionary it means repayment for damages or other harm usually caused by war. But because this is an election period the word has come up again. While some may say the word means payment to black people for damage done by slavery some two hundred plus years ago, I think the definition of the word should actually be pandering to black people to get votes. We will see the word thrown around a lot over the next year or so. Politicians think offering the idea of reparations will insure them the black vote. 

I have said this before and I will say it again. I never owned a slave and had I lived during that period of our history, I am more likely to have been a slave than to have owned one. I don’t owe anybody anywhere reparation for anything. Reparation has been defined by some as money to be paid to someone who was never a slave, paid by someone who never owned a slave.

I have heard from many black people who think reparations are just another way of holding black people down and victimizing them even more. All people in this country have an equal opportunity to succeed or fail depending on their talent and effort, even redneck hillbillies.

I personally know an individual who was born in poverty in the mountains of Appalachia who spoke with a definite “hillbilly” accent, was basically uneducated, and for whom college was just not available. When he was barely out of high school, he joined the Army and got to see how the rest of the world lived. After the army he took himself out to California. When he saw how those people lived he decided that to fit in and be successful he had to learn how to speak like they did. So he watched TV and listened to the radio trying to change his accent. Eventually he was able to pull it off and went on to achieve a modicum of success. He was further helped greatly by finding a beautiful young lady who put up with his hillbilly ways and worked hard to make a presentable man out of him. Granted this guy is white but I assure you his skin color had nothing to do with his success. Don’t get me wrong. Many of his friends and associates in the country were successful. Most never left but that was their choice.

The point of this example is that success is available to anybody in this country regardless of their beginnings. I personally know many outstanding black people who have achieved success beyond their wildest dreams by hard work and dedication. I also know some folks, both black and white who are still waiting for someone to come along and give them success. For some reason that train never seems to stop. 

As I see it, we have choices in this world.  We can choose to be successful or we can abdicate and just exist. It’s really up to us individually. We can either provide or be provided for. The color of our skin should not ever be a reason for our success or our failure. Neither should our history be a factor. I can tell you for a fact that hillbillies are looked down on. I can attest to the fact that a person with a hillbilly accent is usually considered to be less than intelligent. Don’t tell Jeff Foxworthy that though. He might wonder if you are actually a redneck. 

I oppose reparations of any kind. I suggest you do the same. We, the people, don’t owe any such payment and the proposed recipients aren’t due any such payment. It is nothing more than ridiculous political pandering.

Ron Scarbro

SOME STUFF THAT AMAZES AND ASTOUNDS ME

There is some stuff that really amazes and astounds me. Every time I think it can’t get any crazier, something else comes along that causes me to scratch my head.

The news reported today that because California is now a state which has legalized the “recreational” use of marijuana, convicts in prison can now possess it. Now they can’t actually smoke it, but they can possess it. What idiot liberal decided on this? What do you suppose the chances are that a person convicted and serving time in prison who possesses marijuana couldn’t figure out a way to light up? I have a friend who opined that Bill Clinton had to have a hand in this decision because the convicts can’t inhale. This must have made perfect sense to him.

Did you know that several holding stations on our southern border are now quarantined? It seems that many of the illegal aliens invading our country are bringing with them diseases we have long ago gotten a handle on. Chief among these diseases is chicken pox and mumps. TB has also been reported. Many of these aliens have come from all over the world where they have never heard of preventative vaccines. And the Democrats in Congress don’t think we have a problem. I think we should pack up a bunch of these illegals and move them into the basements of the morons in Congress who think there is no problem. Do you think they might reconsider it then?

This next little ditty will blow your mind. In Los Angeles there are miles and miles of homeless camps. They are bordering major roadways and residential areas. These homeless areas do not have running water or bathroom facilities. The people are living in filth and with open sewage. Well guess what? Typhoid fever has now emerged. Typhoid fever, a disease of the 1500s caused by the lack of sewers and clean water. Thousands of people have died down through the ages caused by this nemesis. Many, many of these homeless people are illegal aliens who broke into this country and because of California’s “sanctuary” policy have been largely ignored by law enforcement. The next problem is that several police officers have resigned because of the danger of this disease. Good job Mayor Eric Garcetti as you represent your sanctuary city in your sanctuary state. All you people need is a few more billionaires leaving your state before your tax base goes completely to zero. Oh, and don’t expect the rest of the country to bail you out.

In case you think I am just picking on California, no, no. New York and Virginia have passed laws allowing post-birth abortion. That literally means that a baby can be born alive, at term, and then killed. And they call this women’s health? What about the baby’s health? Is the baby not a person? If a baby is going to be that inconvenient to you, keep your clothes on. Murder is murder by any name.

And in that same vein, Hollywood has decided that they must boycott Georgia because of the bill signed into law by Governor Kemp called the “heartbeat” abortion law. In other words, if a heartbeat can be detected, it would then be illegal to abort that infant. The Los Angeles City Council has even decided to forbid travel to Georgia by any city employee on business. Really? Do you promise? Do any of you morons think Georgians give a fat rat’s patootie that you won’t come and visit us? Think about it.

As a traditional American I am truly amazed by some of the stuff I covered in this piece and I didn’t even get to the part where schools are going to be required to have co-ed showers because some kids just can’t decide whether they are girls or boys. What could possibly go wrong with that deal? This I promise you. There is a price to be paid for stupidity. You’ll see.

Ron Scarbro

IMPEACH OR IMPRISON, HMMM

Nancy Pelosi says she doesn’t want to see President Trump impeached, she wants to see him in jail and she made that ridiculous comment while he was in England on a State visit in violation of every political norm we adhere to. Hmmm. Let’s see now. What does it take to put someone into prison? First you have to commit a crime. Then you have to be indicted, arrested, tried, found guilty based on evidence, convicted by a jury of your peers, and subsequently sentenced by a judge. Attention Speaker Pelosi. It might come as a shock to you but this isn’t some third world banana republic. We are a country of laws. What is needed to put someone in prison is listed above and all you are missing is all of them.

Just because you don’t like someone doesn’t make them a criminal. Just because someone beats you in a free election, that doesn’t constitute a crime. Just because someone is instituting policies that prove conclusively that your policies have been wrong all along, doesn’t make him a criminal. It instead points out the folly of the Democrat position on almost everything.

Wake up and look around you. You represent a district that is an embarrassment to all of America. The once beautiful city of San Francisco is now a ghetto. I used to love to travel there and eat in some great restaurants. No more. I wouldn’t run my sheep through San Francisco today for fear they would be contaminated by that environment.

The Democrat Party, which you control almost single handedly, is largely responsible for an invasion at our southern border that goes unabated and only gets worse every day. This country is watching you. You and your co-respondents are failing at your jobs. Worse than that, your failures are encouraging even more illegality. These illegal immigrants are not going to be Democrat voters. They are much more likely to be inmates in jail or at least deported.

Here’s a thought. Why don’t you try to figure out a way to be supportive of our President instead of the nonsense and disrespect you are showing. You are a Representative of America, not Mexico. You do not negotiate for this country. That’s the president’s job. In the recent past, you could have faced serious consequences for your actions.

The entire Congress seems to be a covey of clowns so deeply ingrained in politics that they cannot do the work they were hired to do. The Democrats in Congress are trying to get a raise. Raise? I think we should fire the whole bunch and start over with patriots of both parties. Patriots who put America first and are respectful of whomever the President is. We have serious problems that are far more important than phony investigations of any opposing point of view. We have investigated enough.

To show you how ridiculous this all has become and how some people are interpreting this, I just read a letter to the editor in my local paper that offered this opinion. The writer believes both Trump and Pence will be impeached, found guilty by the Republican controlled Senate, removed from office, thereby making Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, the next President. She would then name Hillary Clinton as Vice President, resign in favor of retaining her spot as the Speaker and make Hillary president. The writer then opined that would put the country back on the road to recovery. As you can see from this letter, wing nuts live everywhere, even here in the deep south.

I don’t know what this idiot is smoking, but they should guard their stash. It is much too potent to get into the hands of mere mortals. Look what it did to this one.

Speaker Pelosi, your days as Speaker are numbered and you know it. Be graceful. Be respectful. Go out like a lady. Bake cookies, tend your flower garden, join a book club. Anything, just leave this country alone.

Ron Scarbro

JUNE 6, 1944

I was three years old. But what happened on that day has affected me and everybody else in this world. The readers of this blog know clearly the meaning of “D-Day.” I am troubled though by how many people, mostly younger people, who don’t really know or understand the meaning of this most important date in the history of the world.

We should thank God for men like General Dwight D. Eisenhower and for his foresight and genius in the planning and implementation of this historic invasion of Europe. He knew a lot of people would never return. He knew he was sending young people to their death. But he also knew what was at stake.

D-Day was the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler and his murderous regime. It was the beginning of the end of his arrogant belief that he would rule the world. It was the beginning of the liberation of France, Belgium, England, and all of western Europe. But it came with a huge price tag.

All over Europe blood and body parts were strewn in the cause of freedom. There are cemeteries filled to the brim with the heroes of that great invasion. Some might say, “What a waste of young lives.” Not the older French citizens who to this day celebrate the Allied soldiers who came to their rescue. The huge cemetery at Normandy is chief among the final resting places of American men and women and their allies who gave their all. Many older Europeans still remember and pay their respect.

As I look out on the world of today, I wonder how many young people, especially college students, even know about D-Day. I fear that because they have never known anything but prosperity, peace, and IPhones, they have no idea of the sacrifice that was given that allows them the freedom they enjoy and take for granted. They loll about sipping on a cup of coffee that cost their parents over five dollars contemplating a future of ease and pleasure without a thought as to how this all came about. That is sad.

To me it’s sad that today’s youngsters don’t have to face a military draft. They don’t have to plan their lives around the possibility of a couple of years of conscripted service to their country. If they did, perhaps they might pay closer attention to what freedom costs. If they did, perhaps they might appreciate more what they take for granted. Freedom is not free. If they had to put on the uniform of their country and do their share to insure our freedom continues, they might see us in a different way.

We must never forget the soldiers and sailors who died for our freedom. We must never forget the holocaust where millions of “inconvenient” people were exterminated by a mad man. We must never forget what can happen when good people stand by and let evil take hold. Don’t think for a moment that it could never happen again. It could.

Today’s military stands guard against tyrants and evil doers. Today’s military stands ready to fight or to help. Our WWII veterans have been called the greatest generation and I don’t disagree, but youngsters of today who give up their relative life of ease to enter the service are rapidly becoming the next greatest generation. God bless them all.

Ron Scarbro

OOPS UH-OH

Oops. The Democrats have had some more bad news. They just can’t seem to get a break. The latest bad news, and this is really bad, President Trump has declassified most of the documents regarding the Russian interference probe. That means that all of the lies that created this phony investigation in the first place will now be revealed in their entirety. All of the players in this phony inquiry will now be confronted with the truth. It is no wonder the Clappers, Brennans, and Comeys are screaming foul. Lisa Page and Peter Strzok are in deep doo doo. They all know what is coming down the pike, and it will not end well for any of them.

It is no wonder the loud mouth Members of Congress who supposedly had hard evidence of collusion are headed for the hills, Adam Schiff chief among them. There is no place to hide Mr. Schiff. You will be called to account for your lies as well as all who conspired with you. Attempting to overthrow the legitimate government of this country is a serious crime and the penalties are severe. What is really bad is that currently we don’t know how high up the ladder this conspiracy goes. How many in Obama’s cabinet were involved or maybe even Obama himself? Time will tell. One thing is certain, you don’t want to be in front of the fan when it all hits.

There is a great deal at stake here. The American people demand an accounting. They demand answers from the FBI. Answers from the Justice Department. The entire Obama bunch which were probably up to their armpits in this conspiracy. No doubt Hillary would have done anything to win that election. To me, in this particular conspiracy, she is less liable because she was trying to get elected. She paid for a phony dossier and would have dictated the contents if she could have and maybe did. But, she was not on the government’s payroll at the time as were most of the co-conspirators. She has much more to be answering for concerning e-mails and the phony pay for play “Clinton Foundation.” Her judgment day is coming.

My question to you today is simple. Do you trust the FBI to be fair and honorable? How about the Justice Department? Do you have confidence in the institutions of government? How do you feel about the Congress? Have you ever wondered how Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and Dianne Feinstein have all become multi-millionaires when none of them have ever actually held a job other than in the Congress?

For the sake of the country we must find a way to clean up these agencies so that we can once again believe in them. Contrary to the opinion of some, I was not around when this experiment called America began, but I’m pretty sure our Founding Fathers would be rolling in their graves if they could see it now. Career politicians enriching themselves at the expense of the American taxpayer was never a part of our founding.

I believe in the election process. I believe the American people, for the most part, try to choose wisely. There have certainly been some hiccups, but for the most part we elect the proper people. We will again in 2020. The Democrats have greatly overplayed their hand and they will get their just reward in the next election. If they persist in this impeachment nonsense, they are only guaranteeing themselves absolute and total defeat in 2020.

Over the next few weeks a great deal of information will be released. The real liars will be identified. The self-righteous, arrogant hacks who thought they knew best will face judgement for their criminal conspiracy. And it can’t happen soon enough.

Ron Scarbro

SHAME ON THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS

We the people have hired a Congress to do the business of government. What we have though is a bunch of self-centered political hacks who are far more interested in destroying Donald Trump than fixing anything. Most of these people are individuals I wouldn’t even allow in my house, let alone in the Congress of the United States.

When the voters of this country elected a majority of Democrats to the House, they opened up the floodgates to an unending series of investigations, subpoenas, and harassment of the President and his cabinet. They don’t care that we are being invaded on our southern border by individuals from all over the world. They pay lip service to issues but never do anything but resist the President. God help any Democrat who may, at some point, get elected President.  

Do you think the Democrats actually believe any of their nonsense is true or are they just looking for ways to gain an advantage in 2020? Let’s face it. The Dems are in trouble. Trump has proven the Republican conservative policies of governing work. He has shown clearly that Obama’s eight years were a dismal failure. President Trump has spent the last two-plus years trying to undo the mess that Obama left us with, and he isn’t finished. He has done all this while under continuous, relentless, attack from the Democrats and their allies in Hollywood and in the mainstream media. Imagine what he could have accomplished in these last two years had he been allowed to just serve as he was elected to do. Note to the Democrats, today Trump’s approval ratings are the highest in his Presidency. Higher, incidentally than Obama’s. So, to put it bluntly, your crap isn’t working.

The Democrats want to impeach the Attorney General. Why? Because he won’t break the law for them. They want to impeach the President. Why? Because he beat their anointed darling, Hillary Clinton. They want to grill Mueller about his investigation. Why? Because he didn’t find what they wanted him to find. The fact that it didn’t exist is unimportant. Even if these radical Democrats manage to impeach this President, the Republican Senate will never convict him. The Democrats will come away looking silly. Oh, and by the way, the Trump Administration just got their 100th judge confirmed. More bad news for the Democrats because these judges can actually read and understand our Constitution.

If I were a pro golfer, which I am decidedly not, I would be what used to be called a “super senior.” In English that means I’m an old man. What’s happening in this country won’t affect me that much. But it will most seriously affect my children and grandchildren. And that concerns me. I want for them what was available to me.

As a young man I had the world in front of me. I was able to achieve all that my limited talent and ability would afford me. I had the freedom to try. I could succeed or fail, but it was all on me. I was lucky enough to find a helpmate who shared my dreams and worked for our success. We lived and continue to live the “American Dream.” I want the same for my children and grandchildren.

America doesn’t need to be “fundamentally” changed. It needs instead to return to the values that were with us from the beginning. Our Constitution doesn’t need to be rewritten, it just needs to be reread.

I am so looking forward to the IG, Michael Horowitz’s report. He has been investigating the investigators. He has been looking into what started all this collusion delusion. I hope and believe there will be indictments and jail time for many from Obama’s Administration. When that report is released the narrative will dramatically change. A whole bunch of people are looking over their shoulders, and they should be.

Members of Congress should be paying attention too. Many, or most of them, will be in the crosshairs in 2020.

Ron Scarbro

CAN WE PLEASE JUST STOP THE CLOCK?

One of the first things I look for in the morning newspaper is the birthdays. It’s probably silly, but I like to see how people are doing as they age. I usually am surprised by the names I read and the ages of those people. These are the athletes, entertainers, people of note, and other heroes of my youth. How did they get so old?

Next, I look to see who died and how old they were. Last week it was Doris Day. She was 97. I was astounded. She was one of my favorites. She was a bright eyed, beautiful lady who seemed so full of life. This morning I awoke to learn of the passing of Tim Conway. Truly, one of the funniest people I have ever known. To those who never saw him perform on the Carol Burnett Show, I can only say you missed it. It would be difficult to pick my favorite skit that he did, but the time he portrayed a dentist who accidentally shot novocaine into his hand and then continued to try to do his dentist chore was hilarious. Harvey Korman was his patient and Harvey lost it. I had trouble catching my breath as I watched it. If you ever get the opportunity to see this bit, even if you have seen it before, I encourage you to see it again.

Recently my wife and I decided to burn a CD with some of our favorite music. We spent a good deal of time coming up with the right songs and the right singers. It turned out great. It was only after listening to the CD a few times that we realized, most of the entertainers on it were deceased. Our favorite singers all seemed to be gone. But when you think about it, why wouldn’t they be? After all, the clock is ticking on all of us.

Our favorite sports heroes of the past are dying off. The same with most of the entertainers of our youth. That’s sad, but at the same time it has its upside. Consider the lives they lived. Consider that one could spend their lives entertaining others and making them happy. What a great legacy. Even today, we can turn on the radio or the sound system and hear the songs we have loved forever again and again. Many of the great events in sports are recorded for all time. We can look at them when we want.

Another thing I became aware of recently was a note from an old friend of many years. He wrote to me about events we were involved with many years ago. He then kindly told me that I had influenced him and even somewhat inspired him in those days. We were both very young and frankly, I had no idea that I had had any such influence on him or anyone for that matter. That then is the point. We just don’t know when we are influencing someone else by our words or by our deeds either good or bad. Rarely do we hear about it.

I think there is a moral here. Sing your song. Speak your mind. Do your dance. But remember, someone is probably watching or listening. You never know how you are influencing them. If you are funny, make someone laugh. If you can sing, please someone’s ears. In other words, give what you have. Share what wisdom you have. Someone’s life may be improved by your actions.

When the anchor announced the passing of Tim Conway just a week after the death of Doris Day, she said, “Can’t we please just stop the clock?” Of course the answer is no. But we can remember. We can enjoy the legacy these individuals have left us with. In our thoughts and our minds people can and do live forever.

Ron Scarbro