HIT DON'T MAKE SENSE TO ME - Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday 01-27-10

            Good Wednesday to you.

 

            It is, after all, the week in which the full “Wolf” moon shows it’s face… Saturday is the day… but according to the Weather Bureau’s forecasts… we *may* have some ‘falling’ weather in which the ‘Wolf’ can make some real tracks.  Be not lulled into putting away your winter clothes just because of the spring-like weather we’ve had for the last week or so.  The best part of all that was the kick start on replenishing the ground water, so low for the past several years… and is not (according to the experts) fully replenished yet.  Having enough, good water, in times like these is most likely to be a continuing issue that our globe has to support.  I think that’s a far more imminent problem than ‘global warming’ – but I’m not about to suggest Al Gore write another book.

 

            When I was in high school – back in the ‘40’s – we told we cut more trees than we were growing.  By mid 50’s the ratio was reversed.  Why? It became more profitable to grow trees than cut timber.  It’s called a ‘free market’ solution. It could be stifled by letting the government (which does so few things well) set the price of lumber.  Let the market work, thank you. 

 

            There are other examples: Most of us growing up in the South of a certain age, say 65 and above, remember there were thousands of red-clay gullies through parts of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and … you get the idea.  Where did they go – why did they disappear?  Doubtless the CCC boys/men who came to my grandfather’s farm with their large motorized plows able to quickly carve water retaining terraces and taught farmers how to keep their land from washing down the creek -- *especially* the topsoil that was most productive.  But why did they jump in behind that program and make it work?  Not because FDR and Henry Wallace and other exponents of conservation paid subsidies … but because it was in the farmer’s best and most profitable interest to operate that way rather than plowing up and down the hills creating gullies.

 

            We love and admire limited government – and find, if we let regulation get out of hand, much damage.  Can Presidents make BIG errors?  “You bet cha!” to both of these *if* we have a concerned and diligent citizenry and aren’t greedy we can come back but it depends upon the moral character of the Nation.

 

            Here’s an example which fits today.  Our second President, John Adams, was so attacked by the media of his day stirring up opposition to his policies when our nation was much younger, weaker and less mature – he got Congress to pass the Aliens and Sedition Acts. Here’s a brief definition taken from an online encyclopedia:

 

 The Alien Deportation Act allowed for the arrest and deportation of any non-American during wartime. The Sedition Act made it a crime to do "any false, scandalous and malicious writing." This resulted in the jailing of 25 newspaper editors, most of them Democratic-Republicans. This was during the presidency of John Adams, a Federalist. The response to these acts was marked. Kentucky and Virginia passed resolutions opposing these acts. (Yes – we did have the first ten amendments to the Constitution.)

 

            America survived these very dangerous periods – fostered by some of our most revered founding fathers – who were under tremendous pressure like today they made a big mistakes.  Similar laws were passed and subsequently dropped in the early stages of WWI and during WWII.  We rounded up and imprisoned relatives of German and Japanese Americans. The present senator from Hawaii, Daniel Inoue’s relatives were subject to such mistreatment.

 

            But I shine the light on John Adams again… for he said in 1772: “The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." God is the only true source of wisdom and truth.  Let us place our trust only in HIM!

 

            Cordially,

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

HIT DON’T MAKE SENSE TO ME

MizP: Just a Minit – Ah thank hit’s kinda cool heah.

Homer: Cuz we’s a-tryin’ ta' freeze thangs…

BB: Whut is we tryin’ ta' freeze – hit ain’t summer time y’know.

Homer:  We’s tryin ta' guess whut Mr. Bamer’s goner say t’nite in th Union State message a comin’ up.

BB:  ER… who’s a-gonna win th’ futbawl game.  

MizP: There you go a-tawkin’ sports. We ladies don’t keer fer tha-ut.

BB: Miz Michelle Balcome from Minnesota got yelled at by Senater Speculater. 

MizP: The one frum Pecilvannie?

BB:  Oh he treated ruff but said he was a-treatin’ her like a lady.

MizP: If he’d a-treated me like tha-ut… I’da give him a whack wif m’ hanbag.

Jack:  Whats this all about ?

BB: Seems th’ two of ‘em – Mr. Specter and Miz Balcome

MizP: Wuz doin’ a radio program t’gether -- an Mr. Spectator. …

Homer: He’s switched parties ya know now a-bein’ a Demicrat.

MizP: An she’s th’ firs woman ta' reperzent Minnesota in th’ Congers…

BB: She’s a Christian lady an bin a-havin’ a hard time of hit…

MizP: That-ut ole Keith Olberham – he an Speculator a gangin’ up on Minnesoter’s firs woman                Congersperson … Ah tell you … hit ain’t ‘Merican.

Homer: Hit ain’t bein’ nice neither.

Jack: What about th’ freezing … ?

MizP: We heeah th’ Prezidint‘s freezin’ spendin’…

Homer: After he done run th’ bill waaaaay up yonder.

BB: An he don’t even start that piddlin bit ‘till nex year …

MizP: A-sailin’ under false pretences – thas whut hit is, Mr. Jack.

BB: Say one thang an do another.

Jack: But he hasn’t given the speech yet.

Homer: You know how leaky Warshington is…          

MizP: Nothing ain’t secret in Warshin’ton… ‘cept the meetin’s behin closed doors.

Jack: I guess we’ve all had enough of that.

BB: Masterchussetts done tole ‘em so.

Homer: They jist don’t git hit.

Jack: And we’ve got to get out… b‘cause time’s up – See you here Next Wednesday

               <> I’m Jack Buttram.

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