IT’S FRIDAY… so they say… and *they* are correct!
End of the week – staring a weekend straight in the face. The grasses and the weeds for the most part are producing a luxuriant crop… the livestock are happy – munching away.
Kids are back in school – mostly around here – and mothers a whistling a happy tune. Teachers are anxiously working their way through the items needed for the coming classes. Freshmen are presumed properly registered and scheduled and so another academic year commences. I’ve often wondered why they don’t call the beginning of the school year commencement rather than the end… I’m sure there is poetry in the reasoning somewhere.
I ran across a remark by a CBS newsman that simply required commentary… so that’s the subject of today’s mini-rant. I don’t take them to task too often… some are folks I’ve known mostly slightly, and mostly from the opposite side of the political spectrum. But after a while on the news fronts the battle sounds are just mostly noise… and we’re currently in the phasing down of the primary phase… kinda like a batch of popcorn when you’re trying to explode the remaining “old maids” as the un-popped kernels are sometimes called – and hoping not to scorch the rest of the batch. Just an occasional “pop” now and then.
After this gets done… we’ll soon enter the hand-to-hand phase of the political battle… only when it’s mid-term elections that are the contests (no Prez or VP’s being contested) seems like the real pop’n’sizzle sort of reduces except where there are blood feuds going on – and I don’t keep up with out of state races that well. Anyway… it’s no hiding the fact that it’s another political season… some live for it – some die by it – at least in the political sense… and there will be lots of political corpses on the battlefield when this particular day is done… Nov. 2nd… at least that’s what the forecasters are telling us.
Oh well if it wasn’t this… it’d be baseball and football… maybe all of them together – We’ll see. Just thank the Lord you’re able to take part in the process and you don’t have a politburo telling you for whom you may or may not vote. It’s one of those things that seems important… but you really don’t know HOW important until the privilege has slipped over the side out of your grasp. It’s important for people to be aware – awake!
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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“JUST A MINUTE”
MSM BIASES ANYONE? – RIGHT THIS WAY…
Just a Minute: -- Sometime back, in a discussion with a TV network executive, I proposed things would be better balanced if he’d send out two reporters with opposite biases… and see one which the audience preferred. My host said his reporters had no biases.
Well, let’s check out CBS’s Face the Nation this past Sunday: host Bob Schieffer asked his political panel seven questions. Six highlighted Republican difficulties, and only one pointed out Democrats’ problems come November.
But instead of acknowledging Democrat political challenges, Schieffer acted as if both parties were equally in trouble – he said: "… Democrats on the one hand … have very bad economy, high unemployment: Republicans… on the other hand find themselves ... with... people who have taken some very extreme views on things."
It got me to wondering if Bob Scheiffer has ever seen
I believe I’ll just let it rest there.
<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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