WHERE DO THE NUT ROOTS ROOST NEXT? - Just A Minute Radio for Monday 100726

G’day Folks….

 

Yep it’s MONDAY – and it’s still HOT!  I had the back 40 (our back yard) cut… er … ground up…mulched on Saturday … and did the front yard m’self in near 100 degree weather… just to see if the sweat glands were still workin’ – they are… and the water drinkin’ guzzle pipe too.

 

This July reminds me of a summer some years back – B-AC… (before Air Conditioning)  at least in the classroom building. I had been talked into taking a ‘double-major’ course for graduation in college…which meant I had to take a couple of courses in the Summer...  and THAT summer was another firecracker.

 

As I say, there was no A/C in the building in those days… and several graduate students who had them brought along electric fans – of course they sat close enough to the outlets to get some juice… and we sat close enough to the fans – if  there were seats available – to get some of the hot air stirring about.

 

That was a summer session I still remember… but we got through it.

 

Can you remember planning to go to the motion picture theater just so you could get cool enough to exist.  It was either that or the ice-house… and I would volunteer to go there to pick up a 25 pound of ice (I couldn’t carry the 50 lb. one) to bring home so we could ‘churn’ some ice cream in the evening…. If we could get the block wrapped up in a burlap sack before too much of it melted away.  Ah… those were the days. 

 

I never sat in the ice-house… the guy who had to go in and out a lot I thought was fortunate…. But he wore a parka and some gloves.  I guess it wasn’t as pleasant as I imagined.

 

Someone recently has written a book about how A/C has ruined our society… I guess I’ll let him make the argument to himself… I’m for the A/C.  Obviously it’s transformed the South.

 

Today’s program is about Senator Al Franken (who I think is holding a seat from the state of Minnesota illegally… but who am I ???) and his boring speech.  My wife and I caught part of it… She went to sleep in less than 5 minutes of its start… I got too angry… and should have quit when I was ahead.  But I found out one thing:  There’s nothing more boring that an unfunny “former” comedian.  I pity the people of Minnesota… but then I guess a majority of them (at least the voters) brought it on themselves…. Or they need to sharpen up their vote counting system.

 

Come November… I think there’s going to be a LOT more quarreling over those issues.  But that’s what Freedom’s all about… paying attention… attending to the issues and exerting the effort to get good people in office and hold them accountable.

 

Woops… used up my space for today.  See you on Wednesday – I hope!

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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WHERE DO THE NUT ROOTS ROOST NEXT?

Just a Minute: -- Nevada (short “a”) got a down-your-nose scold from former comedian Al Franken as who didn’t get a single BIG laugh out of the 2000 Net Rooters in convention Saturday night in Las Vegas.  But observers said the evening DID have the highest profanity-bleep index in recent history.  John Fund, of the Wall St. Journal contrasted last year’s friendly, even kindly, Net Root mood -- with this one,  Three videographers surrounded him from the moment he arrived until reporters in the media room made them get out.

Democrat bad news that popped up over the weekend came from Kyle Trygstad, of Real Clear Politics, who says the President’s approval rating now ranks barely above public schools, the criminal justice system and newspapers. But in one thing he excels according to Nancy Pelosi, who says: “Well, at least you can’t say he didn’t bring us change.”

Franken’s ‘laugh-a-minute’ speech’s billing just flopped in “Nevada” but he did carry off their Oscar for the most boring speech of the evening and invited them all over to his place in Minnesota next year where he guaranteed it “Wouldn’t be so hot.”  -- In his case he doesn’t have to worry...

<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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