SOMEDAY IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN - Just A Minute Radio for Friday 18 September 2009

            Hello on a Friday … We’re still on the dry side here… How about you?

 

            In the wake of the “Tax Payers March on Washington” last Sept. 12… Saturday… this week has been like a cake walk… sort of sticky. (J) As Senator Claghorn used to say on Allen’s Alley …”That’s… ah say… that’s a joke, Son!”

 

            But then I forget *most* of you folks never heard of Allen’s Alley. Fred Allen was a radio comedian – out of vaudeville I guess…even I’m not old enough to remember vaudeville. Anyway Fred and Jack Benny used to make comedic insults of on another. Fred had an imaginary Alley peopled with folks like Senator Claghorn (sort of like a not too smart KFC Colonel) who would always say “That state rite next doah to SOUTH CAROLINA…”  -- because he din’t like anything with the name “NO**H in it. Mrs. Neussbalm was a Jewish lady who lived on the alley… Also Silas Moody… who spoke with a New Hampsh’re accent – and occasionally other characters. I  think he also created “Digger” O’Dell… the mortician…Irish I suppose… anyway his closing line every week was –“Well I guess I’d better be shoveling off…remember, I’ll be the last one to let you down.” Corny jokes but we all laughed.

 

            Fred was a lot better at quips than Jack Benny was… so they sort of had a ‘war’ when they made personal appearances on the same show… Once Fred got the best of Jack who responded… “Just wait…next time I’ll bring my writers.”  That might have been a good line for Mr. Obama when the teleprompter broke down… but then in these days nobody would know what he was talking about.

 

            In these crazy days – we could use a few of those old radio comedy writers. Nowadays they’re all employed in Washington rather than Hollywood. (J…L) Oh well… a little levity helps from time to time.

 

            What happened last Friday morning is a sad milestone. Mr. James L. Poullion of Owosso, Michigan was shot to death as he carried his pro-life sign in front of the high school. He wanted to warn the young folks about the dangers of abortion. The New York Times did a story… but the far better one – with more home town details like Mr. Poullion had to wear leg braces or use a walker… and carry an Oxygen tank to do carry on his ‘mission’.  It wasn’t easy.  Sometimes people threw fruit that hit him on the head.  That never made it into the NYT story.  You come away from the ‘Great Gray Lady’s’ treatment thinking…. “Well he’s just a nut.” But he wasn’t. He was concerned for the kids.

 

            The Flint Journal carried the account of a local car dealer who really felt Jim kept people from getting into his dealership sometimes.  But one day Jim came in and said “Doug… if you’d just say I changed your mind about abortion I’d go away.” – Doug [I’m not sure that’s the right name and don’t have time to go back and look it up…but you’ll get the idea and ‘Doug’ will forgive me.] said… “Why sure, Jim, I’ve never been for abortion all along!” – He said Jim went away as good as his word… and never paraded in front of his dealership again.

 

            The comments column in the Flint paper had loving comments… and a few hating comments. It’s an issue few people are neutral on. And it’s just as well. I’m one who’s going to stick with what I believe the Scriptures teach… for that’s God’s book… and I’m glad we have it.  Far better than all the science-so called in the world. Sorry… it’s late and I gotta get this on the air. Love you all.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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SOMEDAY IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN

Just A Minute – Early last Friday, Jim Pouillon, 63,  died from gunshots fired in front of the high school in Owosso, Michigan. It’s thought to be the first killing of an anti-abortionist. 

          For twenty years, rain or shine, this retired auto worker -- the sign man, to locals -- who needed leg braces and an oxygen tank to stand in this small town near Flint, -- crying out and holding signs that said LIFE – on one side and ABORTION on the other.  A waitress where he often ate breakfast said he was quite pleasant and “didn’t push his views around here.”

          Most said he was a good neighbor.  His grandkids often romped with him in the yard of his neat, aluminum-sided home with red shutters and heart cutouts. A small mound of flowers appeared on the corner near the school where he died of several bullets fired by a local truck driver now in police custody suspected in another shooting and scheduled for a mental exam.

          Sunday, President Obama, said the shooting is "deplorable" saying: “Whichever side of a public debate you're on, violence is never the right answer."

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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