TWO AND A HALF CHEERS FOR THE HOME TEAM -- Just a Minute Radio for Wednesday 18th, 2009

G’day Mate… says the Australian… Keeps down  the unnecessary words of mornin’ or afternoon.

 

With all the poisonous pestilence in the air it’s a wonder that we’re not a silent planet – yet!  Oh I’m not referring to cars or jets or even flatuous bovines.  It’s the amount of hot-air expended in Washington daily from Capitol Hill, the White House, the State Department – and even the Pentagon.

 

Every weekday I get a long press release about someone doing something at NIH – National Institutes of Health.  I’m not against progress… but if I were a gambling man, I’d win steak dinners betting there’s at least 20 people involved in putting out that press release, and in every similar shop like it in the District.

 

I used to work in the media relations department of different Senate offices. (Only one at a time.) And though today they are called media departments… in my day I *was*  the media department… Oh I forgot I didn’t have a staff to look after… I had a third of a secretary typist, or some similar arrangement and government was a lot smaller… but probably more crowded.

 

Government needs no fertilizer to expand – like Kudzu – (the trash vine that grows prodigiously in most areas south of the Mason-Dixon line.) It just expands and takes over the place.  It chokes out more productive agriculture and generally becomes a deep-rooted, extremely hard to get rid of, pesky plant.  Introduced into America by an international agricultural fair, it became a pesky pest of the plant world.  Yes it did control erosion in the Deep South – but almost to the eradication of everything else.  The insect pest was the boll weevil – which killed off “King Cotton.

 

It’s just amazing to see how well we grow the things we don’t want like Kudzu or more hot air speeches from well-meaning environmentalists – or money-growers like Al Gore.  I can’t get corn or tomatoes to grow without a lot of work – but let me turn my back 30 seconds in the summer and the yard grows up and fills itself automatically with tournament class golf burrs. Thanks for giving me the idea.

 

Well… got to go… Morpheous sends his insisting call. I’ll continue with you on Friday.

 

Cordially,  IN HIM

 

 

Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

TWO AND A HALF CHEERS FOR THE HOME TEAM

MizP: Jist a Minute Mr. Jack – Has you been a readin’ th’ stories ‘bout Mr. Obama bowin’ ta' th’ emperor?  

Jack: You’re right, Miz Pearl – But I’ve been specially interested in Sino – US relation.  

Homer: You uster head a Chinese organization dint you?

Jack: It was a friendship organization – non political – non partisan called FRIENDS OF FREE CHINA.

BB: Free China – at was on the mainland when Japan was invadin’ Manchuria wasn’t it.

Jack: Very good Billy-Bob… yes – it’s a fairly convoluted story – Free China – Nationalist China, fought for America during WW Two.

MizP: I member seein a movie ‘bout th’ Flyin’ Tigers.

Jack: That was the AVG -- American Volunteer Group American fighter pilots trying to keep China free.

Homer: Was they successful, Mr. Jack?

Jack: Up till the end of the war… then our State Department seemed to want the Communists to win.

MizP: You shore know a lot of history –

Jack: I’m old enough to remember some.

Homer: How ‘bout th’ Franco – Prussian War?

Jack:  You got me there Homer… my history just goes back to World War Two. – but you can read a lot more.

BB: Er use DVD’s

MizP: Yeah… summa them goes waaay back – Egypt an before…

Jack: And the Bible goes back before that.

MizP: Yeah… hit goes back to th’ very beginnin’…

Jack: Right Miz Pearl … and that’s a long time.

BB: How long, Mr. Jack?

Jack: You know… we had some programs at church called Answers In Genesis…

Homer: I heered hit on th’ radio too.  An books…

Jack: Lots of books – but not lots of time… we have to quit for today – but ask your Pastor about good books

               And other educational helps.   However… But we can’t turn back the clock… See you next week – I’m Jack Buttram

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