Straight From The Hart

CONFESSIONS OF A LINGUAPHILE There’s nothing more diverse than people The things they cherish, that turn them on The things they collect and want to “keeple” Their treasure stashed when day is done. Some like their cars, matchbox or antique Old and battered or shiny and sleek. They polish and buff them then drive them around Taking pleasure in gear shift and motors that sound. Some delight in dishes, with patterns that match And vases and pitchers, or just one of a batch. Some collect ducks, or elephants, or pigs Some look for paintings to enhance their “digs”. But for me, I love words, How they sound, how they rhyme, How they roll off my tongue, Absolutely sublime. Like abstruse and duende, oppugn, fancify, Prodigious and resile, cachinnate,and belie, Vademecum and bedizen, coterminous too Fugacious, inexorable, and then derring-do. I could go on forever for there’s no stopping place, Tapetum is a bright spot on a cat’s pretty face. I’m a logolept and pro

Can you imagine what would happen if one thousand children ranging in age from toddlers in diapers to young teenagers  were dumped out on the corner of Commercial and Jefferson some night and abandoned with no adult supervision? This has become a real life situation for many American cities on the southern border of the country over the past several weeks.  Almost 50,000  unaccompanied children of all ages have been picked up in Texas alone since October, some as young as 3 years of age. This “humanitarian crisis” as the White House refers to it, has come about as a result of a program put into effect by President Obama in June 2012 called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) which allowed minors coming into the U.S. to escape deportation for 2 years, and another two year window was opened up last week. So from all over Central America, especially Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, children are coming through Mexico and into the U.S.  Parents are paying thousands o

Remember back when you were a little kid and did something wrong, whether accidentally or on purpose, and your mom or dad would tell you that no matter how bad it was, you would make it worse by lying about it? Apparently Obama's mom didn't tell him that. Have you been watching the constant news clips where he looks at you with a straight face and says in defense of his decision to  release five Taliban commandos in exchange for deserter Bowe Bergdahl:  "America never leaves one of our military personnel to die.  We never abandon one of them.  Period.  Even if it appears hopeless we try anyway.  It's the right thing to do, that's what America does." Oh, yeah?  First of all we leave Ambassador Chris Stevens to be tortured and killed in Benghazi, along with Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.  The White House said, "we couldn't have got there in time".  So much for "We never abandon one of them.  Even if it appears hopeless, we tr

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