WE'VE BEEN THROUGH WORSE -- Just A Minute Radio for Friday 05-01-09

Howdy...

 

I’m writing a bit early this week because of a family health situation (brother-in-law in FL) that makes sticking by the TV etc… difficult – and no working portable that will handle what I need to do… so here’s a look at what’s in the air in our world presently.

 

John Adams, who was our second President – and in my judgment – far more fundamentally involved in the foundations of America than anyone besides George Washington – is an exceedingly interesting figure in our American History. I highly recommend the biography that came out several years ago by David McCullough – it’s a thick book – but borrow it from the Library and enjoy re-learning American history. He’s not perfect… but very interesting and teaching lessons for today!

 

Anyway… if you don’t have time for that, Google John Adams’ letters to Abigail (his wife) and read how near to disaster we came as a nation during the Convention in Philadelphia. Also the struggles he went through when he was sharing duties of representing America to France while Ben Franklin was our Ambassador. Finally the BIG ERROR he made in forcing through the Aliens and Sedition Act in which he put editors and others under threat of lock and key for speaking against the government. They were difficult days.

 

Thomas Jefferson… the third President, worked against his own boss – Adams – as V.P.  So if you think we’re going through tough times now… think again. Ultimately the two – who were nearly mortal enemies reconciled and their correspondence is fascinating in the years when they were both out of power… and they died on the same day – one in New England and one in Virginia. It’s an amazing story in our history I never get tired of re-examining. I wonder why I didn’t learn all that in High School? Oh well… I’m wiser now. (J)

 

Have a great week-end.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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WE’VE BEEN THROUGH WORSE

JUST A MINUTE – If you’ve just come through a knothole – you’re thinking -- “If it’s all the same, I’d rather not do that again.”

Americans from Wall Street to Main Street, wonder: Where’s the American spirit that just after 9/11 caused us to unite and pull together? Why are we now hurling hurtful words at one another?

I just re-read John Adams’ letter to his wife Abigail written in Philadelphia just after the Constitutional Convention finally hammered out a document the majority ratified. His emotion is palpable as he exults with his wife about the joy of agreement, even though there were yet many bloody bumps in the road.

Today, in America – and in our local political scene right here in the Southeast – dark and divisive words are in the air.  Are we not able to review the sacrifice and efforts made by our forebears and forego animosity?

In Christ we have the foundation of liberty, not license; of honor, not raw power.  Success will only come with individual, spirit-lead effort. May God’s blessing be upon us as with those who have gone before.

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IT'S A LONG, LONG TRAIL A-WINDING...:Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday 4-29-09

            Howdy … it’s mid-week time again – and…. TA' DAH!  Fan fare and drumroll…

 

            It’s the 100^th day of Barack Hussein Obama’ s term of being President.

 

            People seem to not question where that moment in time came from. Most everyone supposed it dates back to the time of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt – beginning in the early 30’s – but not so.  It’s actually a couple hundred years earlier when Napoleon was imprisoned on the island of Elba and escaped to lead the battle of Waterloo where he was defeated by Wellington. It was a period of defeat and failure for the Little Emperor.

 

            Just thought I’d throw in a bit of history I happened to run across in today’s search for triple “I” stuff… Interesting Internet Items – it’s certainly not due to my mastery of history. (J)

 

            I also read the three major commercial networks were meticulously counting days ahead in their schedule, knowing there would be a blank spot there as far as commercial time was concerned…and they tried to schedule programs nobody would miss greatly. I guess they succeeded – I don’t know, I don’t watch that much. But there was a story they would lose about 19 million dollars worth of revenue split between them and the cable nets I guess – although the cable guys seem to have more flexibility in ‘make goods’ as they are called.

 

            Also I see where a blogger who has posted promises kept, broken and still in the works on the Internet has won a Pulitzer prize for his work. First time a blog has won a Pulitzer… things are a-chanin’ fast as Billy-bob & friends would say.

 

            Have a great mid-week.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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IT’S A LONG, LONG TRAIL A-WINDING

BB: JIST A MINITE – OK Fellers… an Miz Pearl …

MizP: What’s th’ big ‘nouncement Mr. Beelie?

BB: Well Ah don’t ritely know. I din’t git no ‘structions frum th’ White House tho I left my number.

HOMER: That don’t surprise me Mr. Bill… Ah was promised a job by th transitory team an

hit ain’t never come thru yet.

MizP: Ah thought they was a-gonna make you an assistant car-Zar or sumpin…

HOMER: Tha-ut was bein’ battered about… but nothin’ never come of hit.. I never even

          got bus fare ta' Warshinton.

BB: Yeah,.,, that is kinda disappintin’ ain’t hit… with awl th’ promises th’ Prezdint has made look like he cudda sent you some bus fare.

MIZP: I’ll say… hit’s down rite unthoughtful… spechly since you’s made awl  them green signs

BB: Yeah Homer - -when you made them big signs with the green doller signs awl over… that was thougty HOMER: Aw shucks – ‘twern’t nuthin.. Ah jist thought the best *green* job ya could git would have a

lotta them green dollers a-headed fer yer pocket.

MIZP: But you don’t want ta' be jist greedy, Homer… 

BB: At’s rite Homer. At’s whut’s got awl them banker an car makers in trubble… money.

          An Ah heer’s Congersman Boony Franks a-blamin’ hit awl on th’ banks.

MizP: Well,,, Ah thank he cud save some of th’ blame fer hissef – a lettin’ Fannie Mae an

          Freddy Mac git thangs in such a mess.

JACK: I think there’s enough blame to go ‘round.

HOMER: Oh Hi, Mr. Jack I fergot you wuz heer you’re s’quite an all.

JACK: Since it’s Mr. Obama’s 100^th day in office, an he’s going to use up about

19 million worth of advertising time on the networks tonight … I thought I’d watch you folks a-celebratin’

BB: Ah thank we better git our celebrantin’ this year cause I don’t thank we gone have

          enough ta' buy a root beer float nex year.

MizP: Tha-ut bad huh.

BB: From all I hear.

Jack: With that cheerful note I think we’ve run out of celebrating time today – I’m Jack Buttram

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ONE AUTOCRAT LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER -- Just a Minute Radio for Monday 04-27-09

            Good Monday to ya!  Here we go for another weekly adventure…

 

            I don’t mean to sound rejoicing – it’s just that we can often get a bit down-in-the-dumps from even the folks on our side who seem to be so deadly serious *all the time* -- hardly stopping to take a breath. Yeah… at 77 I already know it’s serious business – I also know you can’t exist on soda-water and vinegar alone.

 

No question: The world is in terrible shape and getting worse. Crime is up I see, even the New York Times reports the Southern Baptist denomination has baptized fewer folks last year than in the year before… They put that in the same column about the subway fares skyrocketing soon … But the really important thing for Bible believers to keep before them is the BIG PICTURE.  The Lord is *still* on the throne… and HE will be in charge even ‘til HE comes back to rule and to reign over this world, which, by the way, is HIS -- HE made it.

 

            This weekend I happened to see the most recent gloom & doom book Christopher Hitchens has on the market from which he draws a comfortable living. It was in an airport newsstand. Thankfully I saw there were still a LOT of copies on the shelf – and not a very prominent shelf at that. They didn’t look to be “flying off” -- I took it as an encouraging sign. (You’ve got to look closely for them these days – otherwise they sail right by.)  I also happened to read of a pollster reporting the American people are “fed up” with both parties. So… I suppose we’re up to Mercutio’s famous line … “A plague on both your houses….”

 

            Well… it could be that – it also could be the emotion car salesmen often recognize as ‘buyers remorse’. When the buyer walks away from the seller’s stall saying “It is nothing… nothing… but when he gets out of earshot he  boasts…What a deal! Proverbs 20:14  Maybe voting for a king-sized dollop of CHANGE isn’t what we really had in mind.

 

            There’s a saying that probably describes most of us at one time or another: “Why pray, when you can worry!” Let’s get down-on-our-knees serious about praying for our nation and for its leaders.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

            Jack

 

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ONE AUTOCRAT LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER  

JUST A MINUTE – What’s with all the furor over President Obama having his picture taken with Hugo Chavez?

          Well -- in Spanish it’s Ooo go… not Hugh Go. You drop the ‘h’ and go on to the next letter…And I know on the campaign trail you say you’ll do ‘whatever it takes’ go one up on your predecessor – and in Mr. Obama’s opinion it takes a lot.

          But what about all those who have suffered imprisonment even death, at the hands of Mr. Chavez or his good friend Fidel? Is the President going to fly Mrs. Pelosi and Harry Reid down to shake hands with political prisoners assuming the prisoners can be found?

          The Wall Street Journal points out autocrats always have a huge problem propping up their authority and legitimacy – so while for the Obama minions it’s just a photo op – for Chavez it’s a treasure. Being seen with the President of the Free World enhances his stature and disheartens his opposition… it’s in the same category of giving aid and comfort to our enemies. 

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FRIDAYS LOOK SO DREARY - SOMETIMES! - Just A Minute Radio for Friday 4/24/09

            Howdy – It’s Friday the end of the week again –

 

            And today a little lesson in paying attention to the news. It’s a technique that’s been around for quite a while – and often employed by those who are less than sanguine about having you pay attention to some particular announcement or event. It’s known as the “Late Friday afternoon news dump.”

 

            The technique is to release unpleasant or news you’d just as soon not receive a lot of attention late on Friday afternoon before the weekend. Often newsrooms are leaking people for weekend outings and the substitute crew may not be up to speed or are perhaps overloaded with getting out the Sunday paper or booking the weekend shows etc. and the ‘less than sterling’ news may get trampled in the rush.

 

            Today’s JUST A MINUTE has about five full-fledged examples of actions taken or announcements made on the Friday afternoons since Mr. Obama became President. Not to say he’s responsible in every instance – but when you’re President everything that happens on your watch you’re supposed to know about.

 

            There are many cases of campaigning officials or newly minted Governors and Presidents promising to be the “most honest” and transparent pol on the block. In my experience going back into the early ‘60’s – those kinds of promises are readily made and even more often ignored.

 

            So … here we are on a Friday… perhaps there will be things of which we ought to take note that will appear in the Saturday paper… or perhaps not at all – and our activities cause us to pass them by. I find it’s worthwhile to ask the Lord to increase my vision at such times… and often get rewarded with information I might otherwise not notice.

 

            Have a blessed week ending.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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FRIDAYS LOOK SO DREARY – SOMETIMES.

JUST A MINUTE – Why are Fridays marked for bad news?

In Washington it’s been a method that sometimes works – to release news you’d rather hide, late on Friday afternoon. Here’s the Obama White House record compiled by the pro-life Susan B. Anthony list (dot) com  

Friday afternoon, April 17^th NIH released new guidelines for stem-cell research letting our tax dollars pay for what most of us oppose.

On Friday, January, 23^rd Mr. Obama overturned the pro-life Mexico City Policy – ignoring the March for Life two days before. This action also allows more tax dollars to fund international abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.

On Friday, February 27^th The President announced a rollback on conscience protection rules for Doctors, Nurses and medical workers who conscientiously won’t participate in abortions.     

And on Friday, March 6th, President Obama signed an executive order  allowing tax dollars to fund embryonic stem cell research.

Wonder what pro-abortion measure might come down the ramp today?

Contact ­SusanBAnthonylist.com to contribute.

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YOU LOOK A LITTLE FUNNY! -- Just A Minute for Wednesday 04-22-09

            Hello Once Again… in the middle of the weak –

 

            And slings and arrows are flying *everywhere* it seems. No place is safe – even space. Today’s Just A Minute’s subject centers on UFO’s and a certificated expert – Dr. Edgar D. Mitchell from MIT has come forward to tell the world he believes “WE ARE NOT ALONE.”  That is our universe is occupied by beings we don’t understand well enough to observe.

 

            Dr. Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon – and says in a scientific meeting report printed in The Washington Times, since he holds the record for the longest moon walk he believes these-out-of-space aliens perhaps believe he’s trustworthy enough to carry their message. He doesn’t say he’s been given the job – but he does believe the US and other nations have so deeply classified existing information and secreted it away from their citizens, the US may wake up one day to find the French or Germans or British have unlocked their secret files and are exposing what our secret labs know – but have never revealed. He says “We are not alone.” And some others back him up.

 

            Well… I’ve heard these stories, and read them – and undoubtedly there are some phenomena that seem unexplainable. And they (the hidden experts) remind us just because you can’t explain it doesn’t mean it isn’t there. To which I’ll agree… But just like it’s terribly hard to prove the “absence” of something it’s also difficult to prove its presence if you don’t have a really good handle on what you’re looking for. Dr. Mitchell – who was the sixth man to walk on the moon, and is on the high end of the scholastic scale at MIT – is a very credible scientist. But so far he’s not been able to unlock credible data to nail down his point.

 

            Undoubtedly, there are many things beyond the present capability of science to pin down and explain. We hear Stephen Hawking – the wheel chair bound and communications handicapped British genius – is reportedly very ill. Our prayers are with him and for him. He’s contributed a lot to the scientific as well as the layman’s understanding of some galactic secrets. But it’s also undoubted that God’s book – the Bible – has mysteries also yet to be revealed. It all comes down to who do you trust? For my part – although I respect and value the scientists for what they know and for what they don’t know – I’ll stick with the evidence produced in the sacred scriptures which seems to me to be by far the most believable.

 

            Cordially, ,IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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YOU LOOK A LITTLE FUNNY!

BB: JIST A MINIT – Has you heered th’ latest on UFO’s an such, Mr. Jack?

JACK: Ah… no.

HOMER: This’n appeered in ‘th Washinton Times.

MizP: What does hit say?

BB: Hit’s a quotin’ an Apollo 14 Astronaut  -- 79 year old, retired MIT professer,  Edgar D. Mitchell who hols th’ recerd fer

            th’ longest walk on th’ moon.

MIZP: Is this fer real?

HOMER: Fa reel Miz Pearl.

BB: See, they had this meetin’ at th National Press Club an th main show  wuz Apollo 14 astronaut Mitchell, sixth man ever to walk on the moon, an ta' th’ citizens of Earth: He’s a-sayin’ “We are not alone.”

HOMER: He’s 79-year-old  an  told th’ hunnert er so UFOlogists "We air bein’ visited!"

MizP: Well ah jist don’t b’lieve hit. I DO b’lieve in angels an super naturals – but ah don’t go fer

            spacy aliens.

JACK: How did you come on this story Billy-bob?

BB: I jist happened acrost the story on th’ Internet – Washington Times.

MizP: Do you b’lieve hit Mr. Jack?

JACK: I guess I’m skeptical – but there are some sightings not easily explained.

HOMER: One of ‘em at this meetin’ was a Air Force Lootenant  who reported a “BLOB” on his radar

screen in Germany big as a aircraft carrier that suddenly took off at sompin like 7000 miles per hour – Mach 10.

MizP: Well what do they want.?

BB: They thank they’s a grabbin’ people an implantin’ little chips that tells ‘em about usn’s and stuff.

HOMER: Th’ comments on th’ TIMES’s web site was there… an then they disappeared when

people started sayin’ they thot Nancy Pelosi an Barny Frank was obviously implants.

JACK: Well now …

HOMER: Ah din’t say that Mr. Jack – that’s whut was on th’ web site.

MizP: Mebbie th’ Aliens is got control of th’ web site

BB: Stranger thangs has happened.

JACK: I think we all better cool off ‘till next week. – I’m Jack Buttram

 

 

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THE LADY FROM WEST LOTHIAN - Just A Minute for Monday 4-20-09

            Howdy… it’s beginning a new week *again* and there are lots of things to be taken care of we know.

           

            This story is remarkable in its telling and in its viewing. Miss Susan Boyle of West Lothian in Scotland decided to try to win the “Britain Has Talent” on British the U.K. Telly….

 

            She’d had a modicum of voice training she says… and been in some other competitions in addition to singing in her church’s choir in West Lothian… Scotland… (that’s a region not a town) Her town is Blackburn – according to Internet contributors – about 11,000 population and she was not mentioned at her church yesterday except for a small note in the bulletin that congratulated her for her successful appearance on the British TV show.  

           

            The reaction I’ve been able to sample on the Internet is quite diversified. Europe seems to be fascinated. America is even more so – we always are stunned by celebrity it seems – although this lady does not seem to be impressed with her own importance and apparently is keeping her head – “while all about her are losing theirs.” (A Rudyard Kipling paraphrase.)

 

            So… while this site was nowhere near the leading edge of this story – it is one that is welcome nonetheless. I’m glad to see *her* head is not turned by all the attention. And can only wish her well in being able to accomplish one of her ‘dreams.’ [Plus it’s a good story that not until right here did the current political/economic crisis even get a mention. Sometimes entertainment does accomplish something.]

 

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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THE LADY FROM WEST LOTHIAN

JUST A MINUTE – Miss Susan Boyle, totally upset the “Britain Has Talent” show judges and audience with her singing. America loves an ‘underdog’ and when 47 year old Miss Boyle took the British stage last week; snide smirks were thicker than London Fog.  

Cynic Simon Cowell’s, eyebrows were first to show everyone had seriously misjudged the Scottish Lass. Obviously she was not a “Pretty Young Thing” and was marked off as ‘lower middle class’ definitely ‘below the salt.’

But the unmarried, never kissed (she says) church singer sat the judges and audience back on their heels from the first phrase, and brought the crowd to its feet. The cheering is still heard around the world in a reported 41 million plus   You Tube hits.

She says: "I expected people to be a wee bit cynical. But I decided to win them round. … I’d never had a proper chance. It's as simple as that. You just don't give up."  --- “She wasn’t ugly – we were!” said Guardian commentator, Tanya Gold.

Next contest round scheduled for May.

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ASHAMED OF CHRIST - OR... : Just A Minute Radio -- for Friday 04-17-09

            Hello Again….

 

            We’re getting further into Spring – and looks like a beautiful day – at least most of it.

 

            However, on the register of what’s happening during the President’s first 100 days – a rather fake deadline anyway – things are somewhat cloudy. People who measure these things and keep track are firming up an opinion that despite running as a person who could “bring the country together” there has not been a leader who has been more polarizing than Mr. Obama in recent history.

 

            Now it’s true beyond question, the President weathered a test of considerable import in the Pirate Incident on the Somalia coast. And experienced observers are generally agreed he was fortunate – some would even say lucky. I would give him credit for keeping his head and being a cool and steady hand at the tiller. It could have easily been mistaken for uncertainty.

 

            Next time the Barbary Cousins promise not to be so graciously understanding. Perhaps we have allowed our misunderstanding of the brutality and criminal aspects of piracy to send our brains into soft-focus. Despite the good P/R generated for Blackbeard and company by Peter Pan and Patch… piracy remains in the annals of history as a very wicked, immoral and criminal threat – that was dealt with in the Presidency of one of America’s least interventionist Presidents – Tom Jefferson – very decisively. In that case he served very well.

 

            All the same the boat does seem to be rocking. Shallows are ahead and tough reefs for the ship of state. And it’s hard to really imagine what will happen globally to the world’s finances which have never been put through the tasks we are asking of them. I’m not at all confident of governmental policy – it is certainly not a panacea and to quote surviving sea captains… it pays to “Keep a weather eye.” But even more prudent in my way of viewing it is to concentrate on the things that are eternal rather than temporal. We *know* this world will come to an end – and we believe – because of scriptural and historical teaching, Christ will return to rule in peace and joy. We just see through that glass dimly.

 

            Let us be assured by the Holy Spirit and the Blood of the Lord Jesus.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack Buttram

 

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ASHAMED OF CHRIST OR …  

JUST A MINUTE – A religiously offensive event resulted from the President’s speech at Georgetown University Wednesday. The White House demanded Jesus’ name be covered in Gaston Hall, so a black piece of plywood covered “I H S” – Greek abbreviation for Jesus Christ – or “Ichthus.”

Then in the comments which appeared between eight and nine last night on the Internet: (quote) Are we paying homage to a man DEGRADING the name and the face of our savior Jesus Christ?... People don’t know and realize what their eternity will be by denying … God[‘] Son. Mark 8:38 says: "For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels." … Georgetown University SHAME! No religious institutions where God and His name are honored should comply with any governmental request of [this] degree; … WAKE UP, ask Jesus for HELP and forgiveness!” (unquote)

It’s noted there was no such White House requirement when Laura Bush spoke in the same spot on the Georgetown campus.

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A FISCAL BLOCKBUSTER - Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday 04-15-09

            Well… HAPPY TAX DAY everybody….

 

            See… when you’re broke – tax day isn’t such a bother… You know nothin’ from nothin’ leaves nothin’ – so you’re just as well off when you finish as when you started. Well… perhaps I exaggerate a bit.

 

            But afterall… money is only a medium of exchange – and if we managed to get into this world without it… I guess we can go out the same way… only it might make the undertaker’s job more difficult.

 

            You are familiar with the saying… nothing’s certain but Death and… Fill in the blank. I’m here to tell you today… there’s something more certain and more cheerful or at the very least hopeful. I refer you to the book of Hebrews in the New Testament part of your Bible. If you’ll examine that carefully you’ll find it turns out to be the most hopeful book for people who’ve never encountered the Bible before.

 

            Experienced missionaries say tribal people who have never encountered the Gospel story before are most often thrilled to find the pagan or uncertain ways of salvation that have come down through uncertain paths and provide little in the way of assurance their pagan prayers will be answered – can be set aside through the words of that portion of scripture that reveals how God purposed to show mankind through the messages of the prophets and the fulfillment we’ve just been through at Easter time that Christ, the Lamb of God… provided the sacrifice for those who will believe in Him that is perfect and all fulfilling – that never has to be repeated for salvation.

 

            This verse seems to me to be one of the most striking. Chapter 7 of Hebrews verse 25 – “Wherefore, He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them,”  The job is completed. Death has been defied through the perfect work of Christ – which never needs to be repeated. What a joy to rest in that knowledge backed up by the Creator and sustainer of the Universe.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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A FISCAL BLOCKBUSTER?

BB: JIST A MINITE – Air you a-goin’ to the TEA party Mr. Jack?

JACK: I don’t know of one nearby?

BB: Well whut’s all this I’m a-hearin’ about you makin a movie.

MizP: Where did you git such foolishness…?

HOMER: Hit’s on th’ frunt page of Variety magazine – The hedline says -- rite ‘chere…

MIZP: (PAPER SOUND) Ah don’t see nuthin’ ‘bout Play Fair  …

HOMER: See th’ story -- HBO Films has optioned "Game Change: Obama and

Clintons, McCain and Palin, called th’ Race of a Lifetime,"

MizP: Ah still don unnerstan…

BB: Hit’s an in-the-works Harper-Collins’s book by writers Halperin an’ Heilemann –

and they is both Time magazine fellers a-lookin’ fer characters “biggern life” they says…

MizP: So you thank Ah’m bigger’n life?… Tha-ut don’t soun complimenterry.

BB: No no no… at jist means hit hain’t a-gonna be a plot story… hits gonna be ‘bout characters…

MizP: Well enuf peepul done shore call us characters.

HOMER: See Miz Pearl when these writers had been a coverin’ th’ campinpain…

An they got an idée ta' write a book fer a movie usin’ these HUGE…

BB: No no no… Larger than life is whut they said wud be better characters in a movie than John Kerry

er Bob Dole …

HOMER: An certainly better than Al Gore…

MizP: Oh I reckon… woun’t he be a passion an a chuckle awl tied inta one.

JACK: So these guys have optioned a book to be called “Race of a Lifetime?”

HOMER: At’s rite -- we’s thankin’ we cud play big parts in th’ movie.

MizP: I gets ta' play, Sarah

BB: Ah… Miz Pearl… Ah thank you is more th’ Hillirary type.

MIZP: (off mike) Oh Jes let me fine my our my ortograph book …

HOMER: Kin Ah play th’ Kevin Costner part.

BB: Oh fer gooness sake… you folks done los your mines…

JACK: And I think we’ve lost all the time for today… I’m Jack Buttram

 

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