Despite my delay in getting this posted… it is still FRIDAY!
My best excuse for posting after my usual deadline (which is usually around midnight the night before) is like the third grader who looks up at the teacher woefully and says: “The dog ate my homework.” I do have a dog… but she mostly prefers the food we put out for her once a day in the evening. It seems she (Her name is Emma-lou – You know folks in the South… we just love hyphenated names.) only wants to eat once a day… and we don’t want her to get fat now that she’s about eight years old. Well… all that detracts from the main message…. I did write… but the computer ate it… or sent it off to never-ever-cyber space. [Either that or it’s the Lord’s way of editing what HE doesn’t want me to communicate.] Anyway… this completes the record.
I’ve been in this contradiction of terms (management-labor) for some years now. My first job in public relations was trying to help a local commercial Chamber of Commerce operation set up by the local manufacturers, have more than one song to sing… or one string to their bow… whichever metaphor you prefer. Up to that time I had been entirely in radio news… where we don’t particularly care how to punctuate or capitalize or all those troublesome things to poor typists like me… we mainly are concerned with how you pronounce it. All the rest goes by the wiayside.
However when you get ‘thrown in the deep end of the pool’ and become the first and only staffer who is working on the organization’s newsletter… you suddenly realize some of the skills you DON’T have. Unfortunately that’s been my learning experience since the early ‘60’s… when I had to add some of those print skills to what I had been practicing for more than ten years. It was *very* revealing. And it’s a method of learning that goes on to the present.
Right now… I’m trying to help a neophyte political candidate…. And while I’ve worked on a lot of campaigns, I feel like I’m in the deep end of the pool again. Meanwhile… these little complications of losing the copy supposed to be posted the next morning intrudes. Here I am once again trying to catch up.
May I just pause and Praise the Lord for people who have the brains and computing skills to write a spell checker that catches mistakes and typo’s *most* of the time. When I think of all the ‘white out’ – copy paper I’ve had to throw away… sentences I’ve scratched out and replaced three or four times to the point of not being able to discern what I meant to say at the beginning… Well… I’ve gotten a great appreciation for excellent editing. Unfortunately, I have no one at my elbow at the moment… and so am tempted to go on and on as I have today.
Well… have a great weekend—we’ll try to get together once we’ve gotten a better handle on what’s taking place over the weekend. Keep looking up – I always helps to be cheerful and take your strength from the Lord!
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
Delayed audio link:
“JUST A MINUTE”
RECUSAL REFUSAL – WSJ HEADLINE
Just a Minute: -- Who is Craig Becker? Appointed to the National Labor Relations Board in March by Mr. Obama. Becker was the lawyer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) – the largest government union at 2.2 million members.
Mr. Obama promised transparency no conflicts of interest in his Administration. – Mr. Becker signed on. The *intent* was to eliminate obvious political conflicts of interest. But so many Democrat Senators said they could not confirm Becker for fear of defeat in November – that’s why the recess appointment.
How does Mr. Becker interpret his conflict of interest? He says he worked for the SEIU International, not the locals – voila! NO Conflict of Interest. Ms. Wilma Leibman – also an Obama appointee and Chairwoman of the NLRB… HAS ‘recused’ herself from cases involving the Teamster’s, her previous employer.
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Fund is asking AG Eric Holder – Department of Justice – top dog – to determine if Mr. Becker has violated his signed pledge.
How many think Holder will find Becker guilty?
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