Howdy everbody…. Have we got NEWS for you today.
It’s not every day we get the opportunity to come by a breaking national story here on JUST A MINUTE. But today – according to the folks over at Playfair it’s happened. If you haven’t heard the news so far, I hope you can stick around to 11:30 or 5:15 in the afternoon to hear the excitement in the voices of the folks there.
Playfair, isn’t exactly the crossroads of the world. But the folks there enjoy thinking about themselves as representatives of – well H.L. Mencken referred to them as “The great American ‘unwashed’.” Which I think was very inappropriate of him and rather typical I’m sorry to say of a certain class of pseudo-intellectuals who spend their days looking down their very long noses. However, everybody fulfills a function – even if it’s only to be a bad example – and since Mr. Mencken has long since departed – he can’t defend himself so we’ll let the chips just lie where they fell. (J)
Now I begin to be cheered by the abundance of seeming “bad” news in the Mainstream Media… primarily because I realize, like the preponderance of what the MSM has taken to be the ‘chattering class’ – “They ain’t got no idea of what’s a-goin’ on no way.” [That quote came from a wonderful dear old black preacher who earned his living as an assistant freight conductor on the old ‘Southern’ Rwy… and did the Lord’s work particularly well on the weekends as he tended his rather large and attentive flock.]
The old saying – It’s always darkest before the dawn. – may well be true. I remember some nights camping out in the rain when the tent began to leak and the sleeping bag no longer insulated you from the cold. I felt a lot like the shipmates of
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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“JUST A MINUTE”
IS CAVING IN THE WIND?
MizP: – Mr. Jack – haz you heered ‘bout th’ BIG compermize likely a-comin?
Jack: No I haven’t Miz Pearlie.
Homer: Don’t keep us on tenderhooks, Miz Pearl tell us whut you haz heered.
MizP: My Couzin Clarabelle works in Warshinton you know.
Jack: I didn’t know that.
MizP: She’s a SIEU member an awl – an she cleans confence rooms in th’ Senate. Well, was a- cleanin’ where these six Senators is a conferencing on th’ Health Care thang.
Homer: Oh boy… has she got sum new news?
MizP: Haz you ever heered of th’ Smooth-Hawly Bill?
BB: Thass an old ‘un ‘bout tariffs and such. …
MizP: Er th’ Taffy-Hearty Labor Ack?
Jack: Labor law passed back in the ‘40’s
MizP: Well, Ah’m sartin you ain’t never heered of th’ Kennedy-Grassley Ack…
BB: Th’ Kennedy-Grassley whut?
MizP: Shhhh…. Doan say hit too loud. Nobody knows ‘bout hit yet.
Homer: (Whispering) Tell us th’ name agin Miz Pearlie…
MizP: Well – Clarabell – tha’s my Cousin who’s a-doin’ th’ Capitol cleanin’ says hit cud be
t’h Grassley-Kennedy Ack er – vice versy … Enny way Senator Grassley of I-O-way –
An Senator Kennedy of Massachoosetts
Homer:– They gonna name hit after they selves?
MizP: Oh Homer… you done guessed hit… you took my words out’n my mouf.
Homer: I din’t mean to Miz Pearl.
Jack: You mean if they name the health care ACT after Grassley and Kennedy…it’s
BB: Hit’s bound ta' pass Mr. Jack… you know tha-ut.
MizP: Mr. Bill’s rite Mr. Jack… Clarabelle believe’s tha-ut is th’ compermize they’s settlin’ on.
Jack: Wow… That’s a scoop.
Homer: An ta' thank – we knows hit firs rite here on JIST A MINIT.
BB: Well, hit won’t be secret long if’n you keep blabbin –
MizP: Er if’n the BAIT SHOP AN’ SUSHI BAR guys git hole of hit.
Jack: Gess we’d better just keep it to ourselves -- good thing time’s up <> I’m Jack Buttram – (END)
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