DO YOU *REALLY* WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING? - Just A Minute Radio for Monday 12-07-09

            G’day on this first day of the work week…

 

            Hope you had a good weekend and are off to a good start on the week.  It’s not much of a deal for me to by-pass doing the news these days… There are a LOT more people reading the news.  I enjoy putting my two cents in where it fits – at least I plan for it to fit.  And from what I see on TV, to me it’s a real *joy* not to have to depend on shouting louder or at a higher pitch at others in the same room.  That’s close to the top of what I *like* to turn off nowadays.

 

            Anyway… it’s going to be a tumbledown-rollaround week I think. There’s a big storm brewing just off the west coast that promises big amounts of snow and other ‘falling’ weather over the western half of the country – and perhaps will trouble the east coast too.  Meantime all the jets flying to Copenhagen will produced some 21 million tons of carbon dioxide – or about  the same as a year’s production of the so-called ‘greenhouse gas’ that the entire country of Morocco would put out in a year.  And I doubt they come up with one sentence that comes close to binding any major nation in the world to any significant reduction in what they say is needed  -- partly because nobody knows what is needed.

 

            The hacking into e-mails exchanged between some of the so-called scientific experts on global-warming has revealed enough collusion to call into question the whole fabric of data on which our esteemed public servant Albert Gore – whose home in Tennessee happens to use something like 20 times the amount of energy of the average American household – won a Nobel prize for calling attention to. [I don’t like that sentence… but then I don’t imagine he would either.]

 

            All that to say, these ‘scientists’ have given science a bad name.  And also thrown a blanket of doubt over the work of some of their colleagues who may really have something important to say or demonstrate.  What irks the rest of us is when these ‘experts’ try to sell the rest of us a bill of goods that is so questionable it has to be tricked out to make a case.  In today’s information – or pseudo-information world, there’s a lot of noise out there… and most of it is worthless.

 

            Perhaps we can get past this and forgettaboutit for a while – long enough to let Christ be seen at Christmas – and the New Year begin.  Truth has really taken a beating this past year.  I’m praying next year will be an improvement – but not holding my breath.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENING?

JUST A MINUTE – Normally, I try to leave news up to the newscasters – but today I can’t avoid dealing with both news and weather.   

          Because of very bad weather approaching the west coast, they and the desert southwest are on tap for some unusually bad weather, unless you happen to be in the skiing business.  Meanwhile Copenhagen this week is host to – for want of a better title – the global warming circus.  The President was slated to go but I’m not sure he’s still going since the Senate held its own hot-air convention over the weekend which he attended.

          Sounds like I’m joking – but actually they’re doing it all by themselves.  Two members of the Motion Picture Academy called on the group to take back the Oscar given Vice President Al Gore for his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."  The scandal of pilfered e-mails has apparently uncovered suppression of data and squelched opinions skewing the climate-change argument.

          So, since they’re all digging their own hole – I don’t want to slow them down.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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