JUST HOW GREEN CAN WE GET -- Just A MInute Radio for Friday 10-30-0

Howdy… it really *is* Friday… and the last one like this until next October…

 

And so the seasons change and the little poems in the Old FARMER’S ALMANAC tell us it’s just about time to switch the clocks back on Standard time. How many can remember when we used to call it Eastern War Time?  I’m not sure but I think they ran on EWT all through WWII with the idea that it was better for production… and we sure needed that.  But I wonder if it really did help … or did we just think so because we had to get up in pitch blackness?

 

Who remembers Eben Eugene Rexford? – He’s a poet who wrote: “A day for dreams / By leaf-strewn streams.”

Sounds nice and quiet doesn’t it… and rather like Autumn. He’s better known for writing “Silver Threads Among the Gold” – in 1970 inducted into the Song Writer’s Hall of Fame… wrote with Ira Sankey, Homer Rodehaver, Billy Sunday and others… Born in New York State, died in Green Bay Wisconsin of Typhoid fever October 18, 1916 – things you might never know if you didn’t stay up with JUST A MINUTE… (J)

 

            You know there’s probably somebody in your book of friends who today would appreciate a call, or a visit or perhaps just a card telling them you’re thinking of them – remembering them, and if it’s appropriate for your friendship (it usually is) to tell them you pray for them.  We wouldn’t be having the atmosphere filled with hot-air and hate, if there was more of that kind of relationship going on.

 

            Well… gotta go – Have a great weekend… Be back with us on Monday,, Lord willing.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack.

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

JUST HOW GREEN CAN WE GET

          Just a Minute – John Fund, an astute conservative political pundit, who writes for the Wall St. Journal, poses a question from a pair of New Zealand professors who title their controversial book: Time to Eat the Dog?  They won a UN Global 500 Award for environmental achievement.  The book says the carbon dogprint for the typical canine is equivalent to two SUV’s being driven 6000 miles a year – mainly because of all the energy which goes in to raising meat for dog food.  (Maybe they never read the dog food labels to see how much bran and cereal end up in the feeding bowl.)

          Anyway, these two Victoria University professors, Robert and Brenda Vale, say owning two hamsters is as bad for the planet as owning a plasma TV.  They argue pet owners should swap dogs and cats for chickens or rabbits – which could be eaten and compensate for the impact of other things on our environment."

          My take is: apparently, not all the kooks live in the northern hemisphere.  

          <> I’m Jack Buttram.

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