Play On!

The U.S. is right on course as it barrels down the road toward becoming a Third World nation as predicted and helped along by George Soros, the Hungarian-American Lefty whose name appears so often in the news. Soros & Co. are against anything that smacks of good old-time Americanism, and they have great financial muscle that they flex on cue as needed to the destruction of our cherished national values. This man is as much our enemy as were the British in the American Revolution. What Soros has to gain in this controversy seems to me after reflection to be only pure evil.

Obama the sultan?

President Obama continues his hell-bent gallop to spend every cent within his reach. He is intent on proving Keynes was right after all, despite the abject failure of his last “mega-stimulus bill,” which brought us nothing more than immensely increased debt. We wonder what kind of ménage the pre-White House Obamas kept. Did they live like sultans, while running up bills on every side, bills they could never hope to pay? Of course, our great national need continues to be jobs, and our president’s answer is solely to create more government jobs. He understands only how to increase the debt-side of the equation, an act that produces no increase of income. We are more and more engulfed in the hopelessness of Obama’s economic ignorance. Are we so immature that we entrust the job of producing employment to a politician who has, himself, seldom held a job not handed him by voters? I wonder how many of his aides have ever worked in competitive business.

Popularity kills

My English friend Trevor told me that he once invited his fiancée Elizabeth to drive out to a tearoom in a small village near London where teatime was famous for outstandingly good scones with strawberries and heavy cream. When the waitress came to their table, Trevor told her that he had raved about the scones he had enjoyed in that tearoom through the years when he was a student at Oxford. Now he wanted to share this pleasure with his fiancée.

The waitress seemed suddenly dejected and said, “I’m sorry sir, but we no longer serve the scones you remember.”

“Why not, in heavens name?” my friend asked.

“Well sir,” the waitress said, “our scones became so popular that everybody was coming here asking for them, so we simply had to stop making them!”(True story!)

Up standing

One particular two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word. That word is “up.” It is listed in the dictionary as an adverb, preposition, adjective, noun and verb.

Grammar battle

My b.w. is a whiz about grammar. Me and her talk about it lots. Grammar is a damn fool thing to me. People get so persnickety about the way other people say anything. They fight about whom has done what to who as though the doing, isn’t, after all, the main thing. I like to drove my teacher bonkers in the fourth grade, and she passed me fast just to get me out of her class. It was like that the whole way through school. But now I run my own business, and I decide whom is who.

Who is Roney?

Harvard’42—Distinguished Prof, Em.—UCF

2004 Fla. Alliance for the Arts award

(Assisted by beautiful wife Joy Roney)