TIGER GETS TAIL TWISTED -- Just A Minute Radio for Monday, August 17th 2009

Hello Again… it’s MONDAY – and I know you’re rarin’ to get started on the week!

 

            All weekend it seemed as if I was hearing the same newscast over and over and over again. Hardly anything was making the news except the controversy about the President’s national health plan, which he promptly disowns… saying HE doesn’t have a heath plan -- *except* there are certain things he favors.

 

            He goes to considerable trouble to make sure everyone gets the point of what he SAYS – but it seems the public is not equally convinced that’s what he *means* -- For instance he over and over disowns the notion he favors the ‘single-payer’ (i.e. government controlled and subsidized  plan – but he’s quick to say he has favored no plan… he just wants everyone to quit vacationing and get to working.  He says this while touring Yellowstone National Park… which is indeed a beautiful place to tour.

 

            The pesky problem is somebody dug back into video tape files from 2006 where the President-to-be (he was running, unofficially then) averred in a televised discussion of the health care issue that indeed the plan he “preferred” would be the single-payer plan that “everyone” would be covered by – or something very close to that quote.

 

            This is something more and more voters in more and more places are discovering. Mr. Obama the President, and Mr. Obama the candidate not only don’t always say the same thing – but often say contradictory things. Here in the Buttram household we have tried, and for the most part been successful, in convincing children that’s not socially, or ethically acceptable behavior. Now, they are carrying on similar instruction to children and grand children and great-grandchildren as the occasion arises. It tends to make for harmony in the households.

 

            Anyway… having heard the same ground plowed for about the 21^st time… I was ready to take a break and get news from the golf world… which is what I put on the air today. I hope it didn’t offend anyone.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

TIGER GETS TAIL TWISTED

Just A Minute – Whatta ya do when Congress is playing-hide-the-ball… the Maximus Court is on vacation, and the weather’s just hot and sticky? -- You pretend you’re a sports writer and cover the PGA championship.

          Sunday afternoon, Tiger Woods, lost the final PGA Championship round in Chaska, Minnesota, to the first Asian to win the coveted crown. Y.E. Yang, 37 year old from South Korea became the first Asian-born player to win a major tournament with a stunning performance that was as memorable for his clutch shots as the giant player he toppled.

          Entering the last round, Tiger lead 14 to nothing, not having lost any tournament in round-the-world play over the past nine years whenever he was up by two shots. The AP’s Nancy Armour ecstatically wrote, “Yang slew golf’s giant with a hybrid 3-iron … settled 12 feet from the cup.”

          Woods said: “I did every thing right except get the ball in the cup.” Tough, luck, Tiger. Everybody has a losing day some time.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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