March 2017 - Joel Solkoff

“Say ahhh. I’m going to pull nine teeth. This is going to hurt a lot.”

Monday, I have an appointment with oral surgeon Stephen L. Engroff, MD, DDS, all around good guy at Tri-County Oral Facial Surgeons, a convent short scooter ride away.

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Please think of this as a donation opportunity

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If you have to have a tooth pulled (I have) or root canal work (I have) TriCounty is the place to go.

[Too longer for a t-shirt or a bumper sticker.]

My fine dentist Harvey Israel recently revised his prediction. Initially, he thought Medicare would only pay for it if I stayed in the hospital overnight and had all nine teeth removed at once. Perhaps, Dr. Engroff can arranged to have four teeth pulled, then another four teeth, then three more.

My motto:”I do not embrace dental pain. Dental pain embraces me.”

Thepulling begins the second week in April immediately following my granddaughter’s first birthday party.

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Step 1. The White House has lost the address of the Senate Agriculture Committee

Chairman Roberts does not understand why President has lost his telephone number.

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Step 2. Profile of President Trump’s choice and the problems that confront him

http://www.altoonamirror.com/opinion/2017/02/challenges-face-new-ag-boss/

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Step 3. Musical accompaniment

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President Trump shames Sony Perdue two days after choosing him to run USDA

“[W]hen I’m interviewing all of these candidates that Reince and his whole group is putting in front, it went very, very quickly, and, in this case, went so quickly — because I would see six or seven or eight for Secretary of Agriculture, who we just named the other day, Sonny Perdue, former governor of Georgia. Fantastic guy. But I’d see six, seven, eight people for a certain position. Everybody wanted it.

“But I met Mike Pompeo, and it was the only guy I met. I didn’t want to meet anybody else. I said, cancel everybody else. Cancel.”

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What’s Past is Prologue

The Politics of Food

“Mr. Butz’s nomination as secretary of agriculture by President Nixon in 1971 was approved in the Senate by a vote of only 51 to 44, an extraordinarily close margin for a cabinet figure, as his ties to agricultural big business coming under criticism. Nevertheless, he asserted himself from the outset in making farm policy.

“Butz’s power as secretary of agriculture seemed overwhelming,” Joel Solkoff wrote in “The Politics of Food” (Sierra Club Books, 1985). “He made one decision to sell the Russians massive quantities of grain that virtually overnight transformed the basic problem of U.S. agricultural policy from what to do with the surplus to how to make up for the shortage.”
—The New York Times, February 4, 2008

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