EVEN THE TREE RODENTS WANT CHANGE -- Just a Minute for Friday 10-17-08

            Howdy Folks…

 

            I get a mail-gram from the Wall St. Journal crew daily that has a section from James Taranto, editor of the Opinion Journal online edition… and there’s a section he writes with some help from his staff… THINGS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL…. Or something close.

 

            Today’s JUST A MINUTE is along those lines… Something you wouldn’t expect to happen just taking a walk in the park.  Check out the script below… or click on the links to read the script and hear the audio. It’s just a break from the usual hand wringing and unjustified optimism related to the current circumstances. Apparently it causes emotional swings that filter back into the market.  The lemmings run from one side of the ship to the other – it’s called ‘rockin’ the boat.

 

            Today I heard an “expert” on Bloomberg saying things would ‘calm down soon.’  Wonder how she knows since *nobody* in government or out – on Wall St. or Main St. seems to have a realistic clue.

 

            The best clue I have I’ve already shared – but it bears sharing again: “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.” Proverbs Chapter 3 vs. 5,6.  And for confirmation of all that I’d suggest reading in Genesis where Moses gets the Children of Israel across the Red Sea… or a bit later on where they cross the Jordan miraculously. In fact all the major miracles of both Old and New Testaments occur *without* the visible hand of God being seen.

 

            Well… that’s me – Johnny One-Note… but I know the note to play. It works for me – and I’m sure it will for you.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

http://www.jebcovoice.net/audio/jama10-17-08.mp3

 

http://www.jebcovoice.net/scripts/jamt10-17-08.doc

 

 

ãJebco (Prepared for air on10-17-08SquirrelAttack)

“JUST A MINUTE”

EVEN THE TREE RODENTS WANT CHANGE

Just A Minute – The Springfield Illinois Record-Journal newspaper ran a front page story reporting an Iraq veteran was attacked by a Fox squirrel as they walked in the city’s Washington Park.

Animal control officers are puzzled why the bushy-tailed animal left his tree perch and assailed Frank Garren, a 6-foot, 4-inch former Army sergeant who’d been awarded a Purple Heart after surviving a roadside bomb attack in Iraq in 2004. He’s tough but admitted the sudden tree-rodent’s attack baffled him and left him with bloody scratches on his head and left cheek.

Garren and his girlfriend were completing a community college biology assignment gathering lichens when he spotted the squirrel as “Large as a softball…” Garren gave a squirrel call and the squirrel scrambled down to jump on his head.

After they recovered their wits -- and stopped laughing -- he went to a neighborhood first-aid center. No stitches were needed – just cleansing the bloody scratches -- and his shots were up to date. But Garren and his girl decided they’ll defer any more walks in the park until the political season passes. 

You never know when you might be mistaken for a noisy nut.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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