IT'S NEVER RIGHT TO DO WRONG, TO DO RIGHT! -- Just A Minute radio for Monday 06-01-09

            Hello again…  Beginning a new week – with lots of water in the well!

 

            When it comes time to appoint a new Supreme Court Justice some of the best and worst in people comes out. The battle is often partisan and bitter. This one will be no exception despite the “advice” from RINO Repubs and the major media dishing out what we Conservatives “must” do or risk going out of business.

 

            Frankly it has been forever thus. In 1964, I was on the losing end of the contest. I happened to be working in Washington for the Republican National Committee when the “proverbial” sky fell in – and the ‘chicken little’s’ of that era pronounced the GOP DOA at the political emergency room. Republican Senator Scott of Pennsylvania was one of the most despairing voices I recall. Hardly a man alive remembers that famous day and year.

 

            But two years later “Cowboy Actor” Ronald Reagan – that’s how the critics billed him -- had won the governorship in California and quipped to fellow GOP office holder and another actor Senator George Murphy – “Well, George – here we are on the late show again.”  It was a midnight swearing-in ceremony. Senator Barry Goldwater’s record of carrying only five states in 1964, stood until Democrat presidential candidate George McGovern came along and erased it by carrying only one!

 

            So… politics is rather like the stock market – subject to sudden and drastic reverses from time to time. I’m not making any predictions – just reciting history. But make no mistake. We’re in for a rather grim time in the short run.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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IT’S NEVER RIGHT TO DO WRONG, TO DO RIGHT.

JUST A MINUTE – You’ll remember Ricci vs. DeStefano. It’s the case Mr. Obama’s Supreme Court nominee has hanging about her neck. It’s a blunt example of what’s called ‘empathy’ by the President that fails to "administer justice without respect to persons” which she must swear to joining the Court.

You will read elsewhere the details of her one-paragraph opinion killing the possibility of promotion for a dyslexic, hard-striving candidate who did not belong to the minority with whom she empathized. Federal Judge Sotomayor disqualified Ricci and all 19 of his Hartford Fire Department colleagues simply because none of them belonged to the racial minority she favored.

The result is unquestioned, unvarnished, unfairness, which will certainly be overturned, this summer. Her brand of “justice” rips the blindfold from the depiction of the symbol epitomizing fair judgment, regardless of plaintiff or defendant. 

You may not fully understand this until you read the case particulars, but it exemplifies what most Americans determine is justice denied. This will be an historic blot on Obama’s legacy.

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PRAYING OR PRAISING NOT PERMITTED - For Friday -- May 29, 2009

            Howdy at the end of another week…

 

          Seems like this past week has consisted of ‘picking up the pieces’ of the explosions that have happened in the past few days. We have bankruptcies and benchmarks (as in Supreme Court’s bench) that have all been on the front burner every day this week. I’m thinking the whole public is getting burned out on these insoluble problems – but they don’t have a *focus* on what to do about it.

 

          After you hear today’s report, perhaps you’ll get a focus and take pen in hand or pick up the phone to communicate with your favorite lawmaker to express your approval, or deep concerns. In either case – it’s that process – that causes the pot to begin to boil. Mix that with the heady foam called ‘representative government’ and you have the quintessential spirit of America’s genius of self-government. We don’t have it 100% right even half of the time – but it comes closer than most of the other major governments of the world.

 

          Well, enough of my sermonizing… be sure and listen in and register your reaction however you think best.

 

          Cordially, IN HIM

 

          Jack

 

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PRAYING OR PRAISING NOT PERMITTED

JUST A MINUTE – A San Diego Pastor, is threatened by a County official with escalating fines if they continue to hold Bible studies in their home, reported a local TV station. According to The Western Center For Law & Policy the county interrogation went like this:

Do you have regular meetings in your home? – Yes.

Do you say, ‘Amen?’ – Yes.

Do you pray? – Yes.

Do you say praise the Lord? - Yes.

So the county notified the Pastor and his wife the 15 person Bible study, was in violation of county regulations, and they received a written warning listing "unlawful use of land" and admonishing them to "stop religious assembly or apply for a major use permit".  – Which could possibly cost in excess of several thousand dollars.

News of the case has spread across Internet blogs and the American Family Association – at www.afa.net.

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HOW MUCH WORSE KIN HIT GIT? - Just A Minute Radio for 05-27-08

            Howdy everybody and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY … to us!

 

            Fifty six years ago on the BJU campus in the War Memorial Chapel (hmmm was that prophetic?) presiding at the ceremony was Dr. Bob Jones, Jr. the University President -- Barbara and I tied the knot that has lasted this long. We were the last or next to last of a string of six or seven couples who did the insane thing of getting married on our graduation day. But – crazy or not – so far it’s been a wonderful ride… with it’s definite ups and downs – but always proving, especially to us, that God is faithful in what HE promises.

 

            We won’t go into all the wonderful details – maybe that’s a book – but then almost every happily married couple has such a book stored away. As we are fond of saying we’re in pretty good shape for the shape we’re in… and unless something untoward has happened, Barbara had her second cataract surgery *this* very morning at Jervey Eye Group’s surgery suite in Cross Creek Medical Court near Greenville Memorial Hospital. We didn’t exactly plan that as a wedding anniversary gift – but we’ll take it!

 

            You know when you’re in the company of “Seniors”. – We start talking about surgeries and medicines and showing the visible scars. We are thankful for the skill of the medical people we’ve encountered – and the Lord’s grace to bring us this far along together. We’re just *looking forward* to – as Paul Harvey used to say – the rest of the story!

 

            So far the score card reads three boys and two girls… thirteen grandchildren … and 5.6 great grandchildren. How can we be more blessed. We’re having all this health care hassle for them!  We’ll not say more.

 

            Have a great rest of the week. We plan to – concentrating on a good eye surgery recovery – and awaiting the Lord’s return any day now. May the Lord bless you all!

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

            Barbara and Jack

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HOW MUCH WIORSE KIN HIT GIT?

MizP: JIST A MINITE – Mr Jack – Whut in the worl air we a-goin’ ta' do ‘bout Nawth Korea?

JACK: I’m guessing you’re talking about North Korea and their nuclear experiment?

MizP: Eggzackly rite.

BB: Ah thank we ought ta' bumb them back into the stone age.

HOMER: Mr. Billy ..

BB: Ah know  –  hit makes hot unner th’ koller…

MizP: You’d be a- startin’ worl waw three.

BB: Whut d you air you a suggestin…  twiddldy winks?

HOMER: Now kam down Mr. Bill…

MizP: we don’t  haff ta' act like tawk TV.

Jack: There is a key Mr. Bill…

BB: OK whut is it?

MizP: Mebbe we shud call the Newnited Nations.

BB: Oh them idjuts…

HOMER: Don’t git him started agin Miz P. Tha-ut’s sort of a typical reaction Mr. Bill.

BB: Fer gooness sake --- whut do we do?

JACK: Siddown… take a deep breath.

MizP: Count to ten if’n you have to…

HOMER: Er twenny…

JACK: And repeat after me – “What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee.”

 MizP: That’s in th’ Bible ain’t hit?

JACK: Exactly right Miz Pearl – Any idea where?

HOMER: I b’leve hit’s in the Psalms.

JACK: Right again Homer… it’s Psalm 56 verse 3.

HOMER: At’s what one of th’ fellers over at th’ Bait Shop and Sushi Bar said.

JACK: Very good. See one of the first things to do in any emergency is remember to whom

               you belong….

MizP: I ‘member bein’ a little girl an bein’ scaired and my Daddy said “At’s all right little girl I’ll take

               care of you.

HOMER: And hit’s a whole lotta comfort when you know you b’long ta' th’ one who made

               Th whole worl.

MizP: Indeed – th’ whole universe.

JACK: OK – what’s the verse?

MizP: “What time I’m afraid I will trust in Thee.”  Psalm 56 verse three!

JACK: Right… We can talk more next week. <> I’m Jack Buttram.  (END)

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GOD ORDERS THE END FROM THE BEGINNING - Just A Minute Radio for Monday May 25th 2009

            A very good Monday to all!

 

            Here we are at the beginning of a new week – all rarin’ to go. It’s MEMORIAL DAY. One of our ‘misplaced’ holidays I’m afraid… along with President’s day and Veteran’s Day and other holiday’s that get ‘slud’ off their ‘real’ days and moved into a ‘long weekend’ slot. I think it kinda messes up the calendar – and certainly makes things difficult for the trash collectors to have their days all scrambled up. But such is the price of progress – at least we haven’t been submerged in the metric system yet.

 

            Some years back I was just completely impressed with the effort some of the Veterans of WW I (back a few years there were more WW One Vets still around – now they are very rare) who went to great pains to make sure every veteran’s grave in the municipality where my wife grew up flew an American Flag on Memorial Day, July 4^th and Armistice Day (Nov. 11^th – the end of WW I). Most of these fellows were in their late 80’s and beyond. Of course it was difficult for them to do the flag placements – so they were vigilant in trying to recruit Boy Scouts and others to be sure no one’s loved ones were forgotten. I was really struck by their dedication to the memory of their Veteran buddies.

 

            We lose a lot of that in today’s society. Even among our own family members – it’s difficult to remember and make the effort. But I was reminded of the efforts made by some of my cousins to make sure their parents are remembered as well as other relatives. Of course we don’t have to be ‘slavish’ about that – but it warms the heart nonetheless to see younger folks remembering the efforts, time and treasure put into their lives. Our nation – our society is much the poorer because of the decrease in remembrance.

 

            America is a different nation than it was 50-60 years ago – no doubt about it. But we could do better and be better if we recall the sacrifices made on our behalf and put something into the recall. It never hurts to be thankful.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

            Jack

 

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JUST A MINUTE – If Bible believers hold true to our profession, we believe God orders all things in His time and for His purpose. Re-reading some not-so-distant history, I’m impressed that Michael Reagan’s words:  "I believe that everything happens in God's time and His time and our time are not always on the same plane. We wanted my father to get the nomination and win in '76 but God had other plans. Now, looking back, those plans are clear as they were not at the time... If Dad had won in ‘76, who would have been in place then to bring about the momentous events in the 80s that saw the Evil Empire destroyed?”

Michael reminds us none of the key players were onstage when the senior Reagan was defeated in his bid for the Republican nomination in 1986. Mrs. Thatcher was not the British prime minister… Mikhail Gorbachev was not Russia’s leader, and Lech Walesa was just an electrician in a Polish shipyard. Everyone is here by God’s arrangement.

On this Memorial Day – let us remember, God was in charge then and He hasn’t changed.

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REMEMBER OUR HONORED DEAD -- Just a Minute Radio for May 22, 2009

            Hello at the end of the week… with a holiday in prospect!

 

            There’s a great anticipation around our house for the beginning of Summer… which I always take happens about Memorial Day even though it isn’t officially here until June 26 at 1:46AM for you early risers. The seasons always seem to be lagging a bit for my taste… but then I don’t design the calendars… and it’s a good thing too!

 

            I know Veteran’s Day – which in my growing up years was called Armistice Day – and I don’t really appreciate this messing around with the real holiday days – Veteran’s day comes in November 11^th on my calendar. It’s one of the few dates I can remember since I was coached on it in Elementary School – Wasena School in Roanoke, Virginia. Funny… other historical notes don’t stick in my brain so well.

 

            But I believe time just flees too fast … especially as we get older. It’s like watching the telephone poles speed by on a train picking up speed. But then most of you havn’t been on a real passenger train either. Ah well… we’ll have to pick some new pictures.

 

            Anyway… I suggest we begin this holiday with a good picnic and grillin’ if that suits your fancy. But above all get the family together if you can and thank the Lord for the blessings we have. They are many – and they may be fleeting. I won’t dampen the occasion any more than that… Rejoice…and again I say rejoice!  For the Lord is at hand. Amen.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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REMEMBER OUR HONORED DEAD.

JUST A MINUTE – "Once each May, amid the quiet hills and breeze-brushed trees of Arlington Cemetery …  the graves of America's military dead are decorated with the flag … these brave souls followed and loved. The scene is repeated … wherever our defenders rest. Let us hold our sacred duty and our privilege … to have fervent prayers and a pledge of total allegiance to the cause of liberty, peace, and country …

Our pledge today is that those of free men and women who know all we hold dear, must be constantly built up … and guarded vigilantly from those in every age, who seek its destruction. We know … peace does not exist without the essential elements of liberty, justice and independence. They are the true foundation stones ... lone and lasting. They light the way blazed by those whom we honor and remember this weekend.

To keep faith with our hallowed dead, let us be sure, and very sure, today and every day … we keep their cause, their hope, their prayer, forever our Nation’s own." – President Ronald Reagan.

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WHAT'S THAT KNOCKING NOISE? -- Just a Minute Radio -- May 20, 2009

            Hello  on a Wednesday right in the middle of the week…

                       

            Intrigue is always fascinating. That’s why mystery stories sell so well. And Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States, apparently could not restrain himself from revealing to his tablemates at the White House correspondent’s Dinner, the undisclosed location – apparently at one time classified – that Biden said former VP Cheney used during the 9/11 crisis. Of course when two people know something in Washington – it’s no longer a secret – especially if one of them is Joe Biden.

 

            There are some aspects of Biden’s story that give rise to thoughts of fiction – like how did the VP get into the underground VP resident bunker on 9/11 when it reportedly wasn’t built until sometime in the *next* 12 months? And although he’s gotten through relatively un-scathed so far, some in the White House Press pool have bets riding on when Joe might unexpectedly drop another unexpected hand grenade. It seems he cannot come near a major news story without injecting himself into it in one way or another. So … if you send him something memorable – don’t be surprised to see it magnified or embedded on TV screens even though you shared it in secret or embargoed. Joe doesn’t play by anybody’s publicity rules but his own.

 

            Nonetheless that’s what makes life in the nation’s capital interesting if not always believable. Joe is not known for meticulous sourcing of his information – in fact, fiction sometimes gets either mixed up or mangled in other facts when they come around Joe. He’s rather like a super- magnet attracting attention and sometimes intricately woven information. He’s made speeches sometimes containing long passages apparently lifted word for word from another source – but presented as his own. He’s not exactly someone you want serving on a security committee.

 

            But he is a cheerful guy, and the other Senators like him for the most part. He has many charming qualities – it just happens that strict adherence to the facts or truthful accounts are not in his bag of tricks.

 

            Have a great day – and keep smilin’ –

 

            Cordially,

 

            Smilin’ Jack

 

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WHAT’S THAT KNOCKING NOISE?

MizP: JIST A MINITE – Mr Jack – I tell you sumpin but  please don’t tell nobody.

JACK: OK, Miz Pearl.  

BB: Oh excitin’ ta' be in on secret stuff…

MizP: Ah don’t know if I’m ‘lowed ta' tell you.

Jack: Billy you’re interrupting Miz Pearl more than Bill O’Reilly.

BB: Oh ‘scuse me … Go head Miz P…

MizP: Ah was a-readin’ ‘bout Miz Elanor’s stuff …

HOMER: Th’ Miz Elanor of Newsweek?

 MizP: One an th’ same. –she’s th’ one that leaked th’ VP done tole her ‘bout th’ seckret

          undisclosed location.

Jack: You’re talking about Biden saying out loud where VP Cheney was when  9/11

stories were happening?

MizP: Rite. He said hit was under th’ Vice Presdint’s rezdince at th’ Naval Obsertometry.

HOMER: That’s Observatory Miz P…

MizP: Hit don’t make no diffrunce… everbody knows ‘bout hit now – an.   Ah has no reason

 ta' b’leve Miz Clift is a-makin’ hit up.

Jack: Why would she try to say the Vice President isn’t correct?.

HOMER: Biden acksuhully said he din’t reveal no classified information.

BB: You’d think that a feller who’d been caught puttin’ other people’s words in his speeches ud’

know th’ difference ’tween classified and UN-classified.

MizP: Classified means hit’s secret – not tha-ut it’s in th’ want ads.  

BB: Mebbie Mr. Biden din’t know that.

MizP: He IS th’ Vice Presidint an Presidint of th’ Senate.

HOMER: Tha-uts why he give up runnin’ fer U.S. Presdint… This way he kin be number two

an also be number one…

BB: Homer… you’s jist makin’ tha-ut up.

HOMER: No I ain’t, --  Mr. Biden done took his makin’ up lessins frum Mr. Gore – he makes

up a lotta thangs.  

Jack: How did this conversation get started?

MizP: I ‘b’leve hit b’gin  when Henry Wallace was Vice Presdint –

er was hit Secretary of Agriculture.

Jack: We can’t look it up today.  Have to go <> I’m Jack Buttram (END)

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THE TANKS OF TIANANMEN STILL ROLL -- Just a Minute radio for Monday May 18, 2009

            Hello again… it’s a beautiful Spring day in the neighborhood… [Mr. Rogers thinks so!]

 

            And today we’re delving back about twenty years into events surrounding the student protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. I don’t doubt most of you remember the frail looking Chinese student standing unarmed in front of a Chinese Red Army Tank that could have rolled over him in a moment. It was a stand-off picture carried around the world.

 

            We need to remember the same regime controlling Beijing in those days is still in charge. Last Summer’s Olympics showed that. They still wish to control every aspect of everyone’s life – including no freedom to worship God – that would erode their control. That’s partly why the students were protesting twenty years ago. Nobody knows how many died. Unfortunately the same ideological group, twenty years older, run things in the Middle Kingdom today. They’d like to run things here too – and they hold the lion’s share of America’s foreign indebtedness.

 

[As a side note – they are uncertain about the continued value of American currency and have made the first moves to ditch it and replace it either with the Euro – or a basket of international currencies including their own (which they manipulate to their own advantage quite freely.)]

 

            All that to say – it’s a toss-up as to whether China or India is the most populous nation in the world today. Neither is our “buddy” – but we’re far more likely to suffer as a nation at the hands of the Chinese – especially if they have nuclear ‘rogue’ states to do their bidding. The world is a pretty dangerous place. Our current team seems to think we’re playing marbles and not even for “keeps.”

 

            In any case, today’s program introduces a memoir by Zhao Ziyang, who was Secy Gen. of the Communist Party under Deng Zhou Ping twenty years ago. He tried to calm things down before they got out of hand in Tiananmen Square and got booted out of the Party because of it. In his 16 years of house arrest he realized he’d made a big error in not realizing an effective government needed democratic means by which to effectively govern. He details how he tried to moderate the CP leadership – and for his pains got to spend the rest of his life in house arrest. He died in 2005. But he dictated a memoir – which is due to be released this week in English and next month in Chinese (although I’m sure it won’t make it behind the bamboo curtain unless the RED CHINESE leadership relents.) It’s critical of Communist leadership and ideology.  That’s a no-no even if you were Secy. Gen’’.

 

            So… it’s a very interesting thing to see what happens when the leopard has attention called to his spots. There are a lot of them around.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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JUST A MINUTE – Two decades after the bloody events of Tiananmen Square – Zhao Ziyang’s ghostly memoir will be heard by today’s Chinese leaders. Zhao was Secretary General of the Communist Party under Deng Zhao Ping, and spent his last 16 years under house arrest for daring to sympathize with students asking for openness, less corruption and a freer press.

Images of the brave student facing down a twenty-ton tank, or the crowd lifting Lady Liberty before Mao’s placid portrait -- spring forth from Zhao’s tape-recorded memoir, transcribed by Bao Pu, and scheduled for English release this week. The Chinese version, due for released in Hong Kong next month, will give thousands of Chinese a rare inside view of Communist Party Leadership debates.

Once again the unarmed student faces the tank in Tiananmen – he’s memorialized by the ghost of Zhao Ziyang’s memoir – spoken into a tape recorder to forestall forgery – providing a rare insider's view of the Communist Party.

Will that voice be heard by China’s leaders today?  

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WANDERFUL WONDA - Just a Minute Radio - May 15, 2009

            Hello Everybody – ‘Tis Friday Once Again… and we’re closer than ever before!

 

            It’s been a confusing but exhilarating week. Around Greenville, we have friends who live near and work at Bob Jones and this week was the changeover time from school year to summer school. So… that means a lot of coming and going plus sending a grandson whose family is in Hawaii off on another flight out that way – and sometimes welcoming people we’ve known before who are coming back for graduate work or special classes in the Summer. It always seems to have the feeling of Spring!

 

            Additionally we were married in May of 1953… so it was a new beginning for us – and I guess those old stirrings of days a half-century old (Did I *really* say that?) remain fresh in the subconscious. Anyway it’s like having a warm Christmas which will be repeated in the Fall when a new (and old) crop of students return to the campus area. It’s just a part of living and we like it.

 

            For another thing… it gives us something else to concern ourselves with than the usual economic problems or the weather, or the drought, or the war… all those things go on too… but it’s nice to have something more pleasant to think about and on which to concentrate. It’s also the time of summer camps. And I dearly remember as a young teen in the 40’s going off to Boy Scout Camp in the Blue Ridge. I can still work up excitement about that. The old saying is: You can take the boy out of the mountains – but you can’t take the mountains out of the boy. My wife will testify to that…since on our quite short honeymoon 56 years ago she got car sick from me driving her through the mountains of Western North Carolina – but was too embarrassed or timid to say anything about it. I thought she was just sick of me already.

 

            If you’re encouraging newly-weds… just forget it. They never remember anything you say anyway – they’re too occupied with one another.

Have a good weekend… and keep the world turning until the Lord returns.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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WANDERFUL WONDA

JUST A MINUTE – Wanda Sykes, spoke at the White House Correspondents Dinner last Saturday evening breaking with the traditional spirit of the annual event which usually pokes good-natured barbs at the incumbent president. She gave him a couple of soft tweaks, then aimed her flame-thrower at former VP Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh – totally skipping fellow African-American Colin Powell or any other person of color.

She accused Rush of treason, recalling his admitted bout with the pain killer Oxycontin – adding she “hoped his kidneys failed” and suggesting he needs “waterboarding” and was possibly was the 20^th hijacker. Even MSNBC’S - Larry O’Donnell, and the McLaughlin Group’s - Eleanor Clift, assessed her performance as either over the top or excessively harsh.

Other liberal observers found it “disappointing” to see him laughing and smiling during the Limbaugh segment – and supporters are just slightly embarrassed, he came to town promising to "change the tone" from bitter partisan attacks. The venomous criticism simply made Democrat-dominated Washington appear uncivilized and nasty.

He could, if he would, say “I’m sorry.”

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THINK THAT'S FUNNY, HUH? - Just a Minute Radio for 5/13/09

Howdy – It’s the middle of the week!

 

The White House Correspondent’s dinner is an annual event – along the line of a roast, or another parody social event called “the Grid Iron Club” (which President Obama elected to skip this year – unusual) but the jokes are often at the expense of the ‘honored’ guest.

 

This time the President turned the tables – rather mockingly on the correspondents saying all of them ‘voted for me’ – except the ones at the Fox News Table… and Bill O’Reilly said he knew that was inaccurate.

 

Having been around Washington for some ten years or so back in the 60’s and 70’s – I think the ‘humor’ has sadly sunk to a bottom-feeder normalcy, that unfortunately matches the quality of the overall journalism profession on that level these days. Those folks have become, in the main, overly impressed with their self-identified importance. There’s no joke bigger than the guy who doesn’t know he’s the joke – and continues on his way convinced people are laughing with him rather than recognizing they’re laughing AT him.

 

A large majority of the New York/Washington/Los Angeles media think they’re the center of gravity in America – not realizing to be the butt of the joke and not pick up on it is density of the worst kind. Of course most politicos and high profile business and professional people take a few sips of this potent elixir and begin to quaff it ravenously and endeavor to get more – much more. If you look at TV (and I’m finding it increasingly easy to ignore) do you see many people you would like to eat dinner with?  With Bill O’Reilly I doubt if people at his dinner table are able to contribute much to the conversation. Bill already knows it all and is ready to lay it all on you. Glenn Beck comes in close on the heels of Hannity and Rush – and that’s just the conservative side of the spectrum. Most on the liberal side of the scorecard are worse by far.

 

The problem seems to center in the head – between the ears. These guys and gals are in an industry which by its very character requires them to proclaim to all the world how much smarter, better, good-looking, richer and superior in almost every way they are to anyone else sharing the stage or screen with them. In the olden days movie studios used to hire publicity agents to ‘tone down’ their stars a bit – and the movie moguls were pretty good at cutting them down to size in private (or in public when needed) and kept egos in check to the point of blunting their obstreperousness. Now when *everybody* craves their 15 minutes of fame… we get so inured to their offensiveness it slides right by – but today’s celebrities are for the most part, not people you’d care to be stranded with on a desert isle.

 

Fortunately we don’t have to be. We can turn it off.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

THINK THAT’S FUNNY,HUH?

MizP: JIST A MINITE – Mr Jack – Didja ever go ta' th’ White House Correspondent’s Dinner in Washington?

JACK: Yes, Miz Pearl – during the Nixon Administration.

BB: Was there comedy on the program?

Jack: Yes – at a Birthday Party for Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower we had Red Skelton, who was very

funny and respectful of the guests.

HOMER: Ah guess thangs has changed.

Jack: I guess so.

MizP: Did you get ta' shake her hand.

Jack: No – but my wife got her autograph on the dinner menu.

MizP: Oh tha-ut’s nice.

BB: Quite a change frum what’s a goin’ on now.

Jack: Right quite a change.

MizP: Was they’re jokes?

Jack: It was quite a while ago – I remember we had Ray Bolger – the fellow  who played the Scarecrow in the

                Wizard of Oz. – He was funny; and the Army Glee Club sang for Mrs. Eisenhower.

MizP:  Oh tha-ut was nice, too.

HOMER: That-us was a diff-runt day wasn’t hit. 

Jack: Yes… I’d say quite different.

BB: Mr. Jack you thank we’ll ever git back there?

JACK: We don’t go back and re-live the past – that’s for sure – but there’s no good reason to abandon

good manners and politeness.

HOMER: Rite – well whatta you thank ought to be a-happenin’ better?

Jack: There’s no escaping whether it’s a company or a government, a church or school, the

Institution’s tone and demeanor comes from the leader, or leaders at the top – good or bad.

MizP: I reckon thas a good reason fer usn’s to be involved in choosin’ people of character to be our leaders.

Jack: Astute, Miz Pearl.

BB: I’d say tha-ut’s probly the biggest reason fer the messes we is in no matter which group is in power.

Jack: Another pearl of wisdom. Character isn’t something you can buy in a  50 pound sack.

HOMER: Nossir… My Daddy used to say: reppetation is whut other people thank you are – Character is whut

God knows you to be.

Jack: We are just overflowing with wisdom here today. Well – let’s plan to be back next Wednesday.

               <> I’m Jack Buttram

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