EARTHQUAKE ALERT? Just a Minute for 7-30-08

Howdy Folks…

 

It’s been a busy 24 hours. Earthquake yesterday near L.A. – fortunately way down in the earth – and not nearly the kind of damage and loss of life like there was in China. But still enough to worry people – especially people headed for Beijing and the Olympics.

 

President Bush met with Bob Fu of the China Aid Association yesterday in the Oval Office. It’s an attempt on the part of friends and relatives of the Chinese people to get the President to speak sternly to the Chinese leaders about the leadership they need to exert in treating Christians right in the Middle Kingdom. International negotiations and ‘speaking sternly’ in a diplomatic setting sometimes have unintended consequences. We – the United States – need China to use its leverage on the North Koreans to get them to cancel out their nuclear program. What the Far East *doesn’t* need is a rogue nation saber rattling it’s nuclear arms just to get attention and to get its way. So it’s not as easy as it may look.

 

Meanwhile the Chinese as a nation have a huge national pride. They won the bid of the International Olympics Committee two years ago… and snagged the date 08-08-08 (very good luck they believe) as the opening for these international games. As was proved years ago in Berlin, terrorists are not immune to the knowledge the world is watching what’s happening in Beijing. It’s a coward’s game – but there are plenty of cowards out there ready to try the patience and courage of the U.S. and other allies as well as the nerve of the Chinese to see how they will react to attacks within their system. It would be a large blot on the Chinese record to have international terror incidents happen in their home town on their turf.

 

So these are tense times – and the sufferings of the Chinese from the earthquake and from years of rulers who are more interested in aggrandizement than in their people may choose this time to call in their chips and make things tough all ‘round.

 

It’s a time to be praying – as it is at all times.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack Buttram

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

EARTHQUAKE ALERT?

MizP: Just a Minit – Didja heer that bump?

BB: I felt hit. I was over’t th’ Bait Shop and Sushi Bar an I thot a dump truck done hit a

            Big pothole.

Homer: D’ya thank that hit wuz a earthquake?

BB: Naw… t’warn’t big eenuff fer an earthquake.

Jack: They come in all sizes you know.

MizP: An we is on one of them faulty lines ya know.

Homer: I din’t know that-ut. You shore about tha-ut?

MizP: Sure as I’m a sittin’ here eatin’ a sardine an ketchup samwich. Want a bite?

Jack: I’ll pass for now Miz Pearl – thank you anyway.

BB: Ah heer they’s very good fer keeping yer mem’ry sharp.

Jack: Sardine and Catsup sandwiches?

BB: Naw… I mean gittin’ hit up side th’ head wif a earth quake… if’n ain’ too hard.

Homer: Ah reckon gittin’ hit anyways would jar yer brains.

MizP: Yeah… but hit depens on how many you got. If’n your skull is kinder empty then those you has is liable to rattle around too much.

BB: Yep – thas whut happened to my Cousin Lucy… went to a baseball game – got hit by a foul ball – ever after they called her rattlebrained.

Jack: I expect that’s what hit Mr. McCain.

Homer: A fowl ball.

Jack: No… he pledged no new taxes then on one of the Sunday shows when asked about saving Social Security he said *everything* was on the table.

Homer: Even taxes?

BB: Looks like he’da larned sumpin’ from th’ first Presidint Bush an “No new Taxes.”

Jack: Yeah looks like it.

MizP: Not a good development.

Jack: Right Miz P… I’m Jack Buttram

(END)

 

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