Howdy folks… it’s FRIDAY!
Just a couple of weeks till Groundhog Day… and perhaps we’ll get a whiff of Spring – which as I understand the sentiment -- will be most welcome. But perhaps we’re just getting soft. (J)
I’m remembering some years back when I had to fill out an analysis of our radio station’s programming every three years and turn it in to the FCC – Federal Communications Commission. Things have changed a lot since then. It use to be one owner could not own both a newspaper and a radio station in the same market area. Then as regulation loosened up – we get to the situation we’re in today in which there are a whole lot more stations… but many fewer owners… and media is more plentiful on the one hand but more in the hands of fewer people.
All that just to note, the world doesn’t stand still. Society is ever shifting along with whatever we call ‘culture’ in these days… so old guys like me are always most likely decrying what’s going on in society.
However, I do see areas of improvement. We have more churches today serious about helping people… and America by most any standard, is one of the most generous, if not *the* most generous nation on the planet. Trouble is it’s not always to good effect.
I’m also encouraged to see there are new ideas on the educational front. Charter schools are making headway, even though the two major teacher’s unions do all they can to hold back anything that does not have their imprimatur. That’s sort of sad. You’d think teachers would be the most enlightened class… and perhaps they are … it’s just the NEA and AFT manage to cover it over so thoroughly. In any case, progress and enlightenment do manage to make notable progress in spite of their opponents.
I better go get my advocacy license renewed soon by the Department of Correct Thinking – I believe that’s coming along soon. I probably won’t be a leading light there. (L)
Anyway… glad to be back… looking forward to the Spring.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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“JUST A MINUTE”
AN URGING TO ‘THINK FASTER’ IS WRONG
Just a Minute – In all his TV appearances last week, the President jumped on the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) and the CIA. For the first time, the President used the phrase “We are at war…” and in his most overbearing manner, ordered both agencies to speed up and develop quicker ways of pursuing leads to potential terrorists.
In simpler language, he could have said: “Hurry up and connect the dots.” Responding to the President, Mark Lowenthal, CIA's assistant director for analysis between ‘02 and ‘05, said: "You can't ask analysts to think faster. And the president's solution to have analysts share more information sooner is only going to exacerbate the problem that got us into this flap in the first place."
Apparently, the President is feeling the heat of the spotlight – which calls up a quote attributed to another Democrat, President Harry S. Truman: “If you can’t stand the heat – stay out of the kitchen.”
Attempting to deflect Republican criticism, the President resorts to sloganeering – “I want citizenship not partisanship. “
Mr. President, it’s a little late for that.
<> I’m Jack Buttram
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