CHANGE FROM POLITICS FOR TODAY -- Just A Minute Radio for Thursday 100826

            Once again I’m a day late and a $ short…

 

            Looking at the sky last evening I thought it was the FULL MOON… but checking it out later… I find the Sturgeon moon was on the 24^th.. I was looking at the sky on the 25^th and here we are already on the 26^th… My memorizer seems to be getting more and more loose. 

 

            Like the amateur bowler I find myself too often rolling a gutterball thinking I’m gong to go for a strike. I suppose we could rename that the “Tiger” syndrome. He’s really been missing the mark – and with good reason I suspect. The truth is you don’t become a really top notch competitor just thinking about it… there has to be preparation, good coaching and always, always,, practice, practice, practice… There, I quoted my piano teacher word for word on that last speech.  Amazing that I can remember it close to 68 years ago. (L) Back when I decided I’d rather play outside with my buddies than practice.

 

            We all have those regrets I suppose. I was re-reading Malcome Muggeridge’s little, brief autobiography in which he was repenting of “leaving undone the things we ought to have done; and having done those things we ought not to have done…”  I believed that was close to a quote out of the English Book of Common Prayer… and I find something very close to it when I check it out… but it’s quoted and mangled several different ways…  Anyway – I’m trying to pick out some books that need re-reading… It was an exercise C.S. Lewis found very rewarding… I’m just not in that intellectual league. (J)

 

            So, I’m trying to kick-start the ‘little grey cells’ into getting in gear and jumping back into writing for a five times a week program sked… and that’s coming… but I’ve gotten a little flabby mentally and things just come slower. The Political season doesn’t help because everybody is writing about the same events (well *almost* everybody) and it goes stale very quickly.  Although I do find the atmosphere with the Internet is so rapid and so broad… you don’t *need* to get stuck in the ditch… there’s lots of room out there to write something original… it’s just the competition is quite crowded.

 

            All that to say I really appreciate those of you who read this blog – and even more those who take a minute to jot down or type a quick response. Thanks for your time and attention.

 

            Well.. Back to the salt mine… (J)

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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Just a Minute: -- Today let’s skip the primaries to go bargain hunting. Two stories appeared yesterday on the Wall St. Journal’s front page – one on smoking, another on caskets.

‘Katrina’ wrecked a pine forest – the source of income for some Louisiana Benedictine monks. So they began making coffins out of the wreckage – “Ah but NO…” said the State’s funeral board, without explanation.

Meantime, in Elmhurst, Illinois, Victoria Vanconcello, an importer of Chinese e-cigarettes sells them on the Internet. “No, no -- you mustn’t do that without our approval” says the Food and Drug Administration. Ms. Vanconcello can’t afford the demanded testing of the battery powered device that vaporizes nicotine-laden “juice” which she maintains is less harmful because there are no toxins from burning tobacco.

Both are tangled in government rules. The Louisiana funeral board made no response to the Journal’s queries. The monks sold only 60 caskets in before being slapped with the FDA’s “cease and desist” order.

About 400 thousand Americans die of smoking-related causes every year.

Do we get enough government for our money?  A lot of people think – it’s too much! 

<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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