WHEN IS A WAR NOT A WAR - Just A Minute Radio for Monday 100419

            Howdy on a Monday!

 

            While writing this blog I riffed through some amazing photos of what’s causing the airline shut-down across the Atlantic and over most of northern Europe.  There are some truly magnificent photos of the volcanic eruptions that have gone on since mid to late March in Iceland.

 

            Of course Iceland itself has for years been a haven for Geothermal energy and a very limited (at least it seems so to me) national existence.  But one of my colleagues from some years back spent quite a while there during his naval intelligence service and found it to be an intriguing place.  The language is one obstacle I suppose – but then a lot of people there speak English… or one of the Scandinavian languages… and with such a radical shift of sun to darkness during the winter – 24 hours of sun during the summer… it is a land of extremes.

 

            Well… that took me off the subject…. Which today is Obama’s Dilemma… what to do about replacing Justice Stevens on the Supreme Court.  We don’t have room for a major presentation here… but other news has sort of mangled what’s happening there… and I suspect the Republic is going to take another pretty heavy blow…all because “my party” the GOP blew it last electoral cycle by just not restraining spending and dumb stuff like that.

 

            9/11 was not something we could help… at least I don’t see how we could have.  But things have changed now… and if we can get enough people to recognize we can’t do the jump off the thirteen story building and yell – as we pass the 4^th floor on the way down – OK So FAR!...That just ain’t gonin’ to cut it friends.  I’m just asking the Lord to show us what to do before we get to the edge of the economic cliff… because I feel certain we headed directly there… the question is are we going to beat the clock or the printing presses… as they print the greenbacks covering our road to ruin.

 

            However, I’m still optimistic. I know the Lord is in control… *I* would not have had the solution to the problem marching the children of Israel out of Egypt… especially when headed directly for the Red Sea.  Nonetheless… the Lord marched them over on *dry ground*… leaving Pharaoh and  his army to find out how chariot wheels bog down in the bed of the red sea… and the salt water drowns 10,000 soldiers as quickly as it drowns ten… So… miracles happen.  And I suspect we’re having several in store.  Could be some have already happened and we’ve just not seen the results yet.

 

            So… cheer up ye saints of God… there’s nothing to worry about.  Or the old saying… “Why pray when you can worry.”  That’s NOT a good motto.

 

            Well… enough for today. I’d love to hear from you when you have time… drop me a line and I’ll do my best to get a response back to you ASAP.

 

            God bless you and all those you hold dear.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

WHEN IS A WAR NOT A WAR?

            Just a Minute: -- What’ll be the judicial temperament of the next Supreme Court nominee replacing Justice John Paul Stephens, who turns 90 tomorrow and was a 21 year old Naval officer in WWII. He’s the Court’s only Veteran.

            John Yoo, law professor at UC Berkley, says Mr. Obama will of course nominate a liberal, to please the critics on his left; but needs also to foster judicial restraint on terrorism.  Professor Yoo, says Justice Stevens, has walked a wobbly line. A decision he wrote in 2004 panicked the Justice Department into releasing 560 detainees – of whom fully 20 percent (says the Wall Street Journal) -- have gone back into terrorism, including Yemeni’s and a Taliban general.

            Mr. Obama’s in a tight spot. Republicans may gripe about it but without the public getting aroused he’ll be pressured by the left to undo any good precedent established thus far.  A lot rides on the public’s grasp of what’s happening now.  It’s a tough call.

            <>I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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