COURAGE DOESN'T COME EASY OR CHEAP -- Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday 100331

            Welcome once again to a little more normal start up.

 

            We seem to be “making haste slowly” as a dear old lawyer – a friend of another family tried to explain to me as I got more and more frustrated with paper work problems.  Fortunately the Federal agency for which I was filling out a form was little better at deciphering the information that I was sending than I was at getting it right. So… I guess they gave up on me before my friend rescued me and increased my accuracy by about 300%... thus saving my bacon.

 

            Since my job probably hung on getting that accepted – I was forever in the debt of my friend who seemed to manage the frustrations I felt with little effort.  Now I’m about as old as he was then… and I don’t think I’ve made much progress toward climbing over frustrating obstacles in my paperwork paths.  Added to that nowadays is the complexity of computers etc. I once thought I could master the beasts.  But I’ve about decided there are more of them with them than there are with us.  And I know that’s not what the prophet Elisha got to see when he was shown all the chariots of fire that surrounded him and the whole host of Israel. Every now and then I have to stop and think that whole thing through again.

 

            I hope you’ve had a good week so far.  I think it’s probably shortsighted for us to live from weekend to weekend… so I’ve dropped dear old Paul Harvey’s cry IT’S FRIDAY! That he used every week. Although for a man who loved his work as much as he gave evidence… I don’t think he came to work on Monday down in the dumps.  He was *always* ‘up’ – at least he sounded that way when I heard him.  We miss him still.  I don’t think there will be another come along to take his place.

 

            But that seems generally true in the realms of radio – or all broadcasting these days.  Some people do have a singular style… some I like and some not.  But perhaps it’s just perspective.  I don’t find another newsman who seemed to be so good at his work as Ed. Murrow – even though in retrospect I’m not as sure as I once was about his accuracy. Walter Cronkite was one of “Murrow’s Boys” as I think a whole host of CBS guys were back in the days of WWII and following. But Newspapers had some excellent writers and entertainers in print – more so than today I think… but then …I’m getting to be an ancient back number myself … so I’m sure the current oncoming crowd writes us off with considerable dexterity and aplomb. (Although I don’t think I ever knew what that meant. – I always think of some guy with an ostrich plume trailing behind his “capacious” costume.)  Praise the Lord for spell checkers – it found ‘capacious’ even though I mangled it badly.

 

            Well all the cast has gone home to bed I suppose… reckon I better in order to get this in shape for the morrow. Nice to have you drop in. Drop me a note from time to time if the mood strikes.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

 

COURAGE DOESN’T COME EASY OR CHEAP

 

MizP: Jist A Minute – Mr. Jack, Ah don’t unnerstan whut’s a-goin’ own ‘bout China an censorhip?

Jack: Miz Pearl, it’s the same issue in all totalitarian countries – the bosses want to run the whole total show…

Homer: You mean th’ commies is a tappin everybody’s phone?

BB:  They wanted Google ta r’port everbody that ain’t stickin’ to their’ line.

MizP: You mean th’ Communist party line?

BB: At’s perzackly it Miz Pearl – Hit’s bin a-gittin wors ever since they closed th’ Limpicks.

Homer: They jist kain’t unnerstan people at don’t want their telephone bugged.

MizP: Ah heered ‘bout tha-ut when Google said they was a-settin up in Chiner.

Jack: See One of Google’s founders came trom Russia as a 7 year old.

BB: Mr. Sergey Brin – one of Google’s co-founders come from Russia – an even as a little boy he was glad ta be in ‘Merica.

Homer: He din’t go fer tha-ut readin’ people’s e-mails a checkin’ on ‘emns.

BB: Hit reminded him of whut th’ Russians allus done ta their people.

MizP: An he din’t want enny part of hit?

Jack: Exactly right MizPearl… he went into China with reservations.

Homer: An when sum Chinese hackers busted inta Google an…an

BB: An stole a buncha them codes -- hit jist rangled Mr. Brin.

MizP:  Ah don’t blame him. I’d a bin rangled mysef.

Homer: But see he mite be a-wawking Google away frum biggest customer in th’ worl.

BB: At takes a lot of courage.

Homer: Ah cawls hit ‘spizirinctim’

MizP: At sounds good ta me, Homer.

BB: Ah jist hope hit don’t put them on th’ outside lookin’ in.

Homer: They’s done re-set their shop in Hong Kong which ain’t bin fully swallered up yet.

Jack: Well… let’s pray for Mr. Brin and his bizness.

MizP: Les do – ah don’t want ta’ see Google swallered up neither.

Jack: The clock has ‘swallowed our time for this week. See you all next Wednesday- I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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