EVERYBODY GOTTA LOVE SOMEBODY SOMETIME -- Just A Minute Radio for Monday October 19th 2009

Hello Everyone – It’s a *frosty* morning say the Weather Bureau Boys here on the Caroliner Line!

 

And the fellers at “Earl ‘n’ Lester’s Bait Shop and Sushi Bar” are all hangin’ close to the stove on this first morning that really *feels* like fall.

 

I don’t have nearly enough leaves in the yard for a stiff back yet.  I did have the young man who cuts the back 40 with his zero-turn mower for me, come chop up leaves and cut down the last crop of grass (I think) for the summer. But most likely I’ll need him to come back and make mulch out of those dratted yellow poplar leaves that started fallin’ in July. The water oaks never give up until sometime in March when the new buds finally push the old leaves off.

 

Seems like raking leaves ranks right alongside of bailing out the Atlantic with a teacup when it comes to seeing real progress… A good snowfall comes along and does the job of ‘neatin’ up the yard… but sometimes if it comes too early it bends too many bush branches… and deforms the evergreens with a heavy wet snow…

 

Well, if we didn’t have the weather to gripe about… we’d have to get started on the government… and fr’ gooness sake that’s a job like cleanin’ out stables… It *really* is never done.  [ I can see some of you have never cleaned out stables… so you don’t know what we’re talking about (J) – It’s just as well.]

 

One of the most forgotten bits of news from about this time last year was when Candidate Obama was in Chester, Virginia promising as President he would handle negotiations on legislation like this:

“I’m gonna get everyone around a big wooden table – and it’ll be televised on C-span – so *everyone* can see who’s arguing for what… Who is representing who’s interests and all that… It’s time we had some TRANSPARENCY in government.”

 

Yeah…. That was then! This is now! Three Senators Dodd, Baucus and Reid are sitting around a table *behind closed doors* not a TV camera within 100 yards of the place.  They’ll be joined by Rahm Emanuel and somebody else – but you’ll never see any of it on any TV news show.  And this is what has happened to the ‘GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH’ – only I think that is the trademark of “Ringling Bros – Barnum & Bailey Circus.”

 

You guys in Congress… you’re going to get yourself a law suit for copyright infringement if you’re not careful.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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EVERYBODY GOTTA LOVE SOMEBODY SOMETIME

            Just A Minute – We hear Sarah Palin’s publisher, will make a Tuesday announcement -- her much anticipated book will hit the stands Nov. 17^th.  It presently tops major best-seller lists in advance orders.

          A print run of 1.5 million will launch “Going Rogue: An American Life.”  That matches the print-run for Teddy Kennedy’s memoir.

          Mrs. Palin’s book was reset from spring to November for the holiday gift-buying season.  She’s also riding a huge demand as a speaker and tops the current personality list for media interest.

          The whole family moved to San Diego to be near her collaborator, Lynn Vincent, formerly of World Magazine, while working on the manuscript.  Now the race for copy-editing and fact-checking is on to meet the stepped-up publishing schedule aimed to garner pre-holiday sales.   

          Where did the title “Going Rogue” come from?  Apparently, it’s part of Palin’s mischievous humor.  “Slate” writer John Dickerson tagged her with “Has Sarah Palin Gone Rogue?” last October.  She’s turning it into a badge of honor. 

          Way to go, Sarah.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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