CAN'T TELL THE PLAYERS WITHOUT A PROGRAM? -- Just a Minute Radio for Monday 100809

            Good Day – Great to have you here…

 

            We’re ready to draw another week closer to showdown time.  But – you say – Congress has already gone home… we just wait till the election in November.  Oooop… Sorry…

 

            In case you missed it – the Speaker turned out the lower house telling them they could go home… last week…  then events changed her mind… and although the Senate was still in session last week… the House had hightailed it for home! … Only to find out it was a false alarum … and Madam Speaker ruffled her apron and called them all back again.  Rather like Humpty-Dumpty I suppose… but it can happen to anybody. Right?

 

            Anyway we still have the hot weather with us – and my experience says hot weather lingers well through August and into September… so I wouldn’t put away the beach outfits just yet… you may get to try again!  Although I’m sure it’s a pain to pack and unpack all those times. But eventually… the seasons *will* change… and so will the political winds.

 

            Speaking of wind… NOAA… the official US weather forecasting outfit … they expect the superheated ocean water to be the heat engine of more ‘named storms’.  One of my neighborhood friends said, “Why don’t they  quit namin’ th’ fool things… no sense in encouragin’ them!” I couldn’t agree more… I’m not sure I would have named them in the first place…but everybody’s got to have something to do… so I suppose thinking up names for oceanic storms… well, it’s about as good as pickin’ daisys… or Well… I don’t know what else might come up to that high standard. 

 

            Anyway… I don’t think I’m likely to have any input into what the storms do… In reality it’s in the Lord’s hands. And I wouldn’t have it any other way! (J)

 

            Glad to have you with us for the first of the week…. Drop us a line or an e-mail otherwise our fingers get rusty from failing to learn how to type!

 

            Cordially,  IN HIM

 

            Jack

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CAN’T TELL THE PLAYERS WITHOUT A PROGRAM

Just a Minute: -- Juan Williams, a black, respected newsman – employed in 1997 at The Washington Post, as editorial writer, op-ed columnist and White House correspondent.  Currently he’s senior correspondent for NPR and appears almost daily on FOX News. 

Last April he wrote: (quote) “There is danger for Democrats in recent attempts to dismiss the tea party movement as violent racists deserving of contempt. Demonizing these folks may energize the Democrats' left-wing base. But it is a big turnoff to voters who have problems with the Democratic agenda that have nothing to do with racism. “ Adding – “Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the tea party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive.”

Now it’s August, Williams writes: “How is it possible that the once glorious NAACP –has come to the point where it is pushing the first black president to fire anyone – but especially a black woman -- on a charge of racism without checking to be sure she was a hateful racist?” (Unquote) Fair and balanced? We’ve reported – you decide.

<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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