HOW DID I GET IN THIS CORNER? Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday 12-02-09

GREETINGS here on a Wednesday –

Glad to have you here. We may need some referees before the minute is over. Over by the Lake at the Bait Shop and Sushi Bar – owned and overseen by Earl ‘n’ Lester – they are discussing the merits of talking and of not talking too much.

It has come to the attention of the discussants in this corner of Americana that people holding political office sometimes are known to draw a picture larger than life – or somehow lacking in realism when the curtain is drawn back for the painting to be fully revealed.

That seems to be the exercise being undertaken in the Senate for the last few days. People went back to their home counties and came back full of turkey and blood in their eye – or so it appears.

Add to that the adventure of vicariously going along to crash – or seemingly to crash – the first State Dinner of the Obama Administration and it’s been a full week already. The President’s speech last Tuesday evening at West Point didn’t seem to arouse the military spirit of the cadets, or the other listeners either. I heard more re-hashed arguments than a person should have to endure in the week after Thanksgiving.

Well… let’s look forward to Christmas – and make the most of this joyous time of the year. When 2010 dawns next month… I suspect we’ll need all the optimism we can muster. If you’re looking for encouragement, may I recommend Psalm 91. It always lifts my spirits and it will yours too as you meditate on it.

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack Buttram

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“JUST A MINUTE”

HOW DID I GET IN THIS CORNER?

MizP: Jist a Minute – Mr. Jack I heered you say Mr. Obama is the Victim of what?

Jack: Miz Pearl I probably said he’s a victim of his own rhetoric.

MizP: Whut does tha-ut mean?

BB: Hit means too much a-tawkin’.

Homer: Izzat whut RHETORIC means?

Jack: It can mean several things… I meant it to say it’s verbal exaggeration.

BB: Zackly what Ah meant…. Sayin’ too much!

Homer: Like paintin’ yerself into a corner.

MizP: Well why is you a-sayin hit?

Jack: It explains why so many chickens are coming home to roost.

MizP: Ah don’t unnerstan tha-ut neither.

Jack: The President, partly because he’s young, and partly because he’s inexperienced…

Homer: Don’t see whut goes around comes around.

MizP: ‘Splain that to me too.

BB: -- I’ze heered you say menny times, Miz P, when somebody is a tawkin’ too much they better be keerful.

MizP: They’s ‘bout to …

Homer: … Paint they-sef into a corner…

MizP: Yeah… when you tawks more than you listens … thangs start a-comin’ back to bite you.

BB: Rite… Long time ago he promised ta' move quick an’ decisive-- .

Homer: Then he goes off ta' Paris er Coppehuggin er playin’ goff… an Rome burns down.

MizP: We wuzunt a-tawkin’ ‘bout Rome …

Homer: They thunk Rome was a-burnin’ while Neero jist a-playin his fiddle….

MizP: Whatever….

Jack: Mr. Obama, just seems to, often, say more than he should.

MizP: He lookin’ fer a ee-scape goat?

BB: Like Mr. Geithner?... pin th’ blame on him.

Homer: He said no new taxes – but everbody headed fer more taxes.

BB: He was jist a-speakin’ rhetorically…

MizP: You can say tha-ut agin …

BB: He was ……

MizP: Oh stop Mr. Beelie… we bin down tha-ut road…

Jack: And we’ll have to see you next week – I’m Jack Buttram.

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