OBAMLAND'S SHOPPING LIST - Just A Minute Radio for Wed. 08-05-09

            Howdy-do on a Wednesday –

 

            It’s not the middle of a campaign. It’s August and Congress is loose in the land. The House of Representatives have already declared recess, and despite all the smoke, mirrors and shouting at one another the Senate will shortly stumble its way out of Washington and make their presence known in the land.  This is NOT an election year – but it might as well be. You’d never know it from the frenetic activity on and off Pennsylvania Avenue and “K” street (the home office of many lobbying organizations).

 

            I used to live and work there – but am glad to say I can view it from afar now. Not that I believe the city is full of scoundrels (I leave that kind of rumor to those who live and work and love Chicago) for I don’t think it has more than its fair share. The District of Columbia has been dealt a stacked hand. It is populated in the majority by minorities and commuters, save for a minority of hardy souls who populate Georgetown and pockets of the NW – but it does not function like any other place in America.

 

            People write books there – or about being there. And people compose thousand page pieces of legislation even while they refuse to read them – at least I think that’s what I heard of the President. Strange things are done like buying up not so old cars and crushing them so nobody else can use them or in some cases even parts of them. I don’t profess to understand it. But there’s a concentration of power there both holy and unholy that is awesome – capable of good and of evil.

 

            It’s not my intention to become a mystic here – just that people, humans, -- being of the human condition, do not handle power easily or often not well. They have to be watched – indeed they have to watch themselves – lest they become giddy and to use a phrase borrowed from Scripture – they are readilyduped into “thinking of themselves more highly than they ought to think”; it’s a disorder of epidemic proportions in Washington – and unfortunately very contagious. To come “home” to people who know they are just ordinary people in an ordinary job is very curative. I’m glad to see so many partaking of the ‘cure’ – I think in September we’ll see things quite differently when the weather turns cooler.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

OBAMALAND’S SHOPPING LIST

Homer: Jist a Minute -- Mr. Jack – haz you read some of th’ thangs they’s orderin’ besides Cash fer Clunkers?

Jack: You’ve got a list, Homer?

Homer: Miz Pearlie an I haz been a-goin’ over hit, an hit’s amazin.

MizP: Homer’s rite Mr. Jack – Listen to this’n – They’s gonna spin $15 million fer an airpowat…

Jack: That doesn’t sound too bad.

MizP: But hit’s fer Ouzinkie, a little island in Alaska where they’s only 165 people.

BB: Tha-ut comes out to $80 thousan’ fer each person.

Homer:  Sounds like they could buy each one a nice boat fer that-ut much.

Jack: That’s terrible…

BB: An they’s spendin’ $2.5 million for ham producers in California an $16.8 million worth of pork.

Jack: Really? I don’t believe it.

Homer: You better b’leve hit… you a-gonna be payin’ fer hit.

BB: Well Ah don’t git this’n -- $1.5 million fer Mozzarella cheese in Cleveland Ohio.

MizP: Oh tha-ut’s ta' go with th’ sliced ham.

BB: Well, now ain’t you th’ funny one.

MizP: Ah saw hit a-comin’ an I couldn’t resist.

BB: What about this one Miz Smarty… th’ V.A. gonna spen $351 thousand fer a dumbwaiter in

               Brooklyn. Ah don’t thank that’s very nice.

MizP: A dumbwaiter, Mr. Smarty, is one of them automatic thangs that carries trays b’tween floors.

Homer: Here’s one you’ll like Mr. Bill $16 million to save th’ salt marsh harvest mouse at

               San Francisco Bay.

BB: Din’t they save th’ salt marsh mouse oncet?

Homer: Yeah, but th’ House Demicrats promised they’d take hit out back in February but din’t.

MizP: They musta fergot. But they gone spen $7.5 million ta' fix th’ boardwawk in

               Rehoboth, Beach…

 BB: Whut ‘bout $3.1 million ta' study seaweed in Corpus Christie?

Homer: Or another $5 million fer th’ Washin’ton Zoo.  Now … Ah thank…

Jack: I think maybe you really don’t want to say what you think.

Homer: I reckon you’re rite, Mr. Jack

BB: But we din’t tawk about th’ Cash fer Klunker’s program.

Jack: And it’s a good thing too. – I’m Jack Buttram

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