Louis Roney: Bemusing musings

• Expect President Obama to bring as many people as he can on to the U.S. citizenship rolls and expect their healthcare to be covered by you and me. This concept will, of course, promote the simple buying by him of Democratic votes with our money. The power that you and I now have over our future will thus be further diluted. This is a variation of “divide and conquer.” Regardless of what you are told about health care, expect the costs to rise precipitously and your choice of doctors to shrink. It’s Obama’s “legacy” that we, our children, and grandchildren, will be financing ad infinitum.

• In my early youth, gentlemen in the South often wore “suspenders” under their jackets to hold up their trousers. But, these “galluses” were always covered, and never worn in sight over a shirt without a jacket. The only time I ever saw men with uncovered galluses was perhaps in a North Georgia country store where farmers chatted in a circle around a pot-bellied stove. Now the T.V. fashion seems to be men in galluses without a jacket. Perhaps this is some kind of clandestine signal to prepare us for other more “tasteless” things to come.

• At 12:30 p.m. on Sunday check Channel 14 for “The Joy Of Music.” Great organist Diane Bish plays for 30 minutes on different magnificent organs of the world each week. This rare program is a phenomenal quality treat.

• Under Obamacare, the Federal government is taking over the various and sundry medical incidentals connected with the health of jail inmates and others under Federal supervision.

• Who is the worst president in your lifetime — in your opinion? Personally, I can think of no one worse than our present leader. The guy seems unable to deliver the goods in anything he has undertaken. He may yet outdo FDR in borrowing money. We may end up behind the poor house. His rhetoric is risible, and he is now even getting mixed up in his own lies! What are we going to do about this guy? Nothing. We elected him and we are stuck with him. Can we learn from this experience? One would certainly hope so!

• Live and get disgusted — are we nuts? For many years I lived in Europe where a 12- to 15- percent tip was included on restaurant bills as “service.” Only if service had been especially good did one perhaps chose to leave a 2- to 5- percent small addition as rewarding “Trinkgeld.” Some say “tip” stands for “to insure promptness ” and is not meant to be a charity. Now we hear in the U.S. that a 25-percent tip may become the accepted standard.... Whadda ya mean? Is the waiter going to wash my car while I dine?

• There is much questioning by people of political know-how as to Obama’s true politics, the nature of his love for this country, and the description of his presidency. He has been called everything in the books by various politicos, but, whatever his true politics may be, there is a big difference between making things “fair,” and making things “equal.” Fair is the “American way.” The only true “equality” is in the 24 hours a day each of us is granted.

• Teddy Roosevelt on governing and life: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds…” ’Nuff said!

• Will Rogers advised, “Never miss a good chance to shut up!”