AN AFGHAN ADVENTURE - Just a Minute for July 23, 2008

Hello again Folks –

 

            I just never quite know how to answer the question this time of year… “Hot enough for you?”  If I say yes… am I being sincere? Or a masochist? – If I say no… am I just being stubborn or trying to live above it all and apparently giving the impression of a down the nose look? Maybe just best to retreat to the air-conditioned room if I can.

 

            Anyway…it has been entirely hot enough --- AND humid enough too just to fill out the picture. But I think he heat has gotten to the squirrels enough that their load of fat from scoffing down the bird seed combined with their all-season fur coat makes them just lie up in the tops of the trees where they may catch a breeze.  Even the birds that do come to the feeder do so with beaks apart like they are panting… and maybe they are.

 

            I wonder how the Washington press corps – and the three network anchors are feeling the heat over there in the Middle East?  Barack’s visit just flew by almost without my notice. Time flies when you’re having fun. I noticed the Media Research Bureau caught Diane Sawyer sort of trying to hammer John McCain for laughing about Obama – similar problems for Jack McCafferty of CNN. Everybody seems a little uneasy in the heat.

 

            Anyway there’s a lot of chatter on the net now that the obvious and overwhelming bias of major media people becomes more of a factor in their coverage. “Will it help or hurt?” Seems to be the theme of a lot of the discussion.  Most everyone chooses “It will help.” – A few look a little more realistic saying it’ will hurt especially if the public – “The great ‘unwashed’ as H.L. Mencken of the Baltimore Sun used to characterize his readership – decide all this super sweet coverage is a bit too much. It is ‘over the top’ as the current saying is – but what the harvest is in unintended consequences – I’m not sure.

 

            Just stay cool, stay in the Word, and don’t get panicked by big media. They are *very good* at NOT admitting any mistakes.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

AN AFGHAN ADVENTURE  

Jack: Just a Minit – What are you makin’,  Miz Pearlie?

MizP: Hit’s an Afghan, Mr. Jack.

BB: Afghan like Afghanistan?

MizP: No, Silly Billy-Bob

Homer: Looks like a rug you’s a-knittin’...

MizP: Well hit ain’t a rug – and I ain’t a-knittin’ hit – I’ze crocheting (croshaying).

BB: Both use them needle thangs …?

MizP: Yeah… but ast any woman – knittin’ ain’t crocheting and vice versi…

Homer: Ah don’t git hit, Miz Pearl…

MizP: Thas th’ point, Homer… you an the fellers at th’ Bait Shop an Shushi Bar thank you know everthang… but sometimes you don’t know …

Jack: You’re speaking an object lesson, Miz Pearl?

MizP: Egg-zakly.

Jack: So you want to say … ?

MizP: Obama has done run off, spent about two hours each in Iraq an Afghanistan – now headed fer Jordan an Europe an he don’t know nothin’. Even tho he din’t support th’ surge an, even tho hit’s now a-workin – maybe – He thanks a surge ought to be done in Afghanistan with more troops …  

Jack: And you think … ?

MizP: Hit’s two different countries… I been readin’ up. The jogaphreey is different, The Russkies know now th fightin’ has to be different … Well – if I kin croshay this Afghan does he thank he can?

BB: You don’t thank he knows…

MizP: He don’t know knittin’ frum crocheting an thas a fack.

Homer: I’ll try to git Secretary Gates on th’ line …

Jack: <> I’m Jack Buttram.

 (END)

 

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