BOHNER & LIEBERMAN REVIVE D.C. *SCHOOL CHOICE* - for JUST A MINUTE on FRIDAY 110128

            Great to have you all in breathless attendance  -- hanging on every word that comes out of the ‘Snowy North’.

 

            Well, nobody’s perfect. We know the WX-man has a lot of data to keep up with.  And those winter storms are NOT easy to predict.  I only complained when I was having to fly through a ‘mistake.’ (L) And that didn’t really happen too often.  The difficulty is you don’t get to fly through the wx that is *FORECAST*

You have to fly through the WX that is THERE.  And when there’s a BIG difference… well… it can get exciting.  Like the THUNDERSNOW they were experiencing in the concrete canyons of NYC night before last.

 

            I don’t know why we don’t attune ourselves to the notion that sometimes the forecast IS going to be wrong… and sufficiently so.  We had a snowstorm in March quite a few years back when there was enough of that white, wet precip… that closed I-85 down for the better part of 24 hours.  The real devilment of that particular atmospheric disturbance was the freezing rain that accompanied the quite heavy snow. 

 

            The FRZ – which as I recall was the way the WXbureau guys abbreviated it was the real scoundrel.  Just a shift of one or two degrees in the temp makes a BIG difference. When the WX falls more than two degrees or so… the rain becomes snow… and when it goes up a tad it switches over to sleet – or as they wish to call it sometimes… “ice pellets”  -- and as sufficient collection of those little BB’s can make a bridge a killin’ machine when you hit it too fast.  – the FRZ is no picnic on a concrete bridge either because often the bridge will be a sheet of ice when the road has had enough left over heat from the ground to just be wet. The FRZ clings tightly to power lines – and often brings them down as it did in that storm.  Big patches of Greenville were without power for several days.

 

            Anyway… it’s the FRZ that give pilots the willies… makes both props and wings inefficient air foils… and that means lost lift or lost pull or something that will become catastrophic if you let it go too long without either getting out of it – or getting rid of it.  Even with the jets… coming down through a ‘wet’ layer of clouds on approach to the airport with the warm or hot bleed air off the engine that’s supposed to de-ice the intake cowls… or the leading edges of wings or control surfaces… if you have to pull the power back to the place where you’re doing the right thing on speed etc… you may find the tail surfaces icing up… which means loss of control… you get the picture… things get wobbly…. And you just don’t want to stick around in that kind of junk very long.

 

            Kinda reminds me of the kind of financial crisis we *were* in… and apparently are not too far away from now!

 

            Once again… I come back to PRAYER as the exquisite solution.  I can testify to it’s effectiveness.  I’m here because of the Lord’s grace. He was not ready for me to be a part of that aluminum tube coffin the elements – being manipulated by the Prince of the Power of the Air – wanted to create for me and the people riding behind me.  I’m glad we made it home.  And did thank the Lord – and continue to thank HIM and pray for them that are out in it. Not because I don’t want to go to Heaven… it’s just because I want what HE wants… and that’s it!

 

            So… it’s wise to pray for those who travel by land, sea or air… that their trust is in the Lord – not in skill or safety devices… and all of that… all are important… but it’s the LORD who is in control.

 

Well.. It’s late here… I’ve been up too long already so … I’ll put it to bed with a prayer and a bit of a hymn for you and your family.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Barbara and Jack Buttram

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“JUST A MINUTE”

BOHNER & LIEBERMAN REVIVE D.C. SCHOOL CHOICE

 

            Just a Minute: - New Speaker of the House -- John Boehner, with Sen. Joe Lieberman joining him -- plan to restore the Washington school voucher program cancelled by Mr. Obama.

          The Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) Act -- will, they hope, become the “a model for similar programs throughout our country.”

          It’s a direct challenge to the teacher’s unions who want to exclude anyone outside strictly public schools which thus far have produced such miserable results -- including the District of Columbia.

          The measure would reauthorize the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and provide funding for city schools, both traditional and charter, as well as increase the dollar amount of scholarships, mandate rigorous evaluation and incorporate some changes requested by the Democrats.

          There are nay-sayers like Iowa’s Tom Harkin, who is in the pocket of the unions, and would avoid the entire problem. The two sponsoring legislators expect also to change the name to something like the “Every Child Counts” Act.

          It remains to be seen how much support will come from the White House.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan gave vocal support to the effort.  

            <>I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

 

 

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