GETTIN' READY FOR THE HOME STRETCH - Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday 101020

            Hello again… Once more we’re in the middle…. The tipping point of the week.

 

            And we’re still finding ourselves wading through the swamp – which is considerably different than coming around the last turn on the race track. Unless your horse is a good ‘mudder’ it’s going to be dirty and sticky – which is where a lot of politics ends up nowadays.

 

            If you happened to see the New York State Governor’s debate Tuesday evening (if the word is not totally twisted out of context in such usage) you apparently got one of the most freakish shows of the season. I didn’t watch… I don’t have time for such … well… wasteful usage of precious minutes. I’m sorry for the people of NY… I wish things were better for them.

 

            By that I’m not ‘looking down’ my southern nose at my New York State brethren… it’s just it was apparently an inconsequential effort that took up a lot of time. Well… I suppose in the interest of free speech and expression… it did accomplish something – I’m just not sure what. And I definitely wish we could raise the standard of the largest city in the Nation to something more useful.

 

            [BTW – I thought L.A. had become the largest city in the USA but perhaps they’ve gone back to counting people and not freeways?]  Anyway… I know, I know voting is a privilege and a valuable thing to be able to do. I just wonder how much longer we can stand the mockery some people make of it – and how wrung out the whole process is becoming in this day of hyper travel and communication and everything else.

 

            So… hang in there folks… eventually we’ll get to the end of this twisty road and perhaps we can successfully help with the task of restoring some meaning to what’s been eroded already.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

       PS – For those who have asked, Barbara’s surgery went quite well on Monday and she’s recovering nicely at home – we appreciate all the calls and prayers.

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“JUST A MINUTE”

GETTIN’ READY FER TH’ HOME STRETCH                                          

 

MizP: JUST A MINUTE: – Ah want’s ta ‘pologize Mister Jack.

Jack: What in the world about , Miz Pearlie?

MizP: Las week hadda A-tack of th’ Jimmy Carter blues.

BB: Ah was like ta be ‘filcked lak tha-ut – but hit wore off.

Homer: Mr. Bill’s rite …You don’t want ta letum kreep up on ya.

MizP: Well…thankee…  ah jist had bin hearin’ too much on th’ radio…

BB: Them TandV peepul will shore gitcher in th’ ditch Miz Pearl… 

Homer: As we gits closter ta’ th’ final stretch ys jist has ta shut yer ears.

BB:Yeah,  Ah seed Mr. Carter tawkin’ like he did back in ’79.

Jack: Like what, Mr. Bill?

BB: Like rite after he done whopped th’ killer rabbit a swimmin’ toward him in th’ farm pond.

Homer: Oh… tha-ut rattled him bad.

MizP: An Mr. Obama looks like he ain’t a-gonna git ta ride Air Force One ‘n’more.

Jack: It’s a real come down.

BB: An on toppa tha-ut figger you gotta move back ta Illinois – um uh…

Jack: Now… the’re good folks in Illinois… you don’t want to hurt their feelings.

MizP: Rite Mr. Jack – hit’s a free country an you kin be wrong if’n you want to…

Jack: I wasn’t exactly sayin’ … –

Homer: Miz Pearl is a-meanin’ is you kin disagree with sumone wif’out bein’ disagreeable.

MizP: Thas a good rule Homer… 

BB: Ah’m glad we’s tawkin’ … ‘cause th’ baseball season’s ‘bout over.

Homer: What does poyticks have ta do wif baseball.

Jack: Sortsmanship!

BB: Yeah… but we still wants ta win.

MizP: At’s rite Mr. Beelie… but no stuffin’ th’ ballot box.

BB: Uh… yeah…

Homer: An safe er out – specially at second.

BB: And don’t git thrown out.

Jack: Which let’s me know… out is what we are – out of time.  See you next week … I’m Jack Buttram

 

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