IT'S OPENING DAY AT EARL'N'LESTER'S -- Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday 110105

            Hi Folks – Welcome to the middle of the first full week of two thousand eleven….

 

            We’re treading lightly on a new path – hoping for the best – maybe expecting the worst.  Both sides have been pouring cement around their feet… but the full picture of what’s happening – or maybe going to happen – if… and that’s the question that is like a ‘jump ball’ back when I used to play basketball.  The tallest guy with the best jump gave his team the continuous advantage.  And you can’t do much about a guy who is 6-8 inches taller than the short squirts on your team.

 

            But I must recall that some of our shorter guys were the best scrappers… and gave good account of themselves.  However in the county where I was not even close to being a good shot… our high school level of play was pretty much well…untrained.  Not to make excuses… but there were five high schools in our rather spread-out Virginia county… and none of us had a team of sufficient quality or caliber to outshine the others… Still I guess the town’s team was probably the best… and they were in a league a step up above the rest of us in student body size… all in all an enthusiastic but not very expert bunch.

 

            Still I’m glad for the experience… and probably the competition to get on our team was of such caliber that I could make it…otherwise I would have been a bench rider and/or the equipment manager for both of the seasons when I played.  I don’t think we even put our seasonal wins/losses record in the year book… it really took some explaining. (J).

 

            Let’s hope the “home team” with all the new players we have this year in the Congress will do a LOT better.  Enthusiasm counts for a lot… but so does experience and training.  To that I would add yet another element – Prayer.  As I do the research demanded of writing and airing a program five times a week, I’m forced to do the math… and see something of the problem our country is in.  I don’t profess to know it all… or even to see clearly how we’re going to get out of it… but I know America – having lived here almost 79 years… and I lived through the dark days after Pearl Harbor … as well as the latter days of the Great Depression.  My folks showed me all about that… and I lived through it because of the industry of my Dad and the Faithfulness of my Mom.  They were both the products of farm families… both had difficult times… which they all survived but not without a lot of work and effort.  I don’t want to make it sound like a marathon… but from all I can tell looking back… it wasn’t a walk in the park either.  

 

            The more I contemplate what’s gone on – and what’s going on… the more thankful I am for my parents and all my family.  God blessed me with many blessings some of which I’m just now beginning to appreciate fully.

 

            Well… we’ll all be better for the experience next year – with one provision – that we’ve committed ourselves to the Lord.  I’ll leave the message right there and pick it up with anyone who cares to.  I’m glad I’m a Christian – and thankful for my family.  I’ll just pray you have as good an experience.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

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“JUST A MINUTE”

IT’S OPENING DAY AT  EARL ‘N’ LESTER’S

BB: JUST A MINUTE: – Air they a-gonna er swear in th’ new buncha House members er not?

JACK:  It takes time to get the formalities taken care of  Mr. Billy-bob.

MizP: They’s awlways too much formallities  in Warshington.

Homer: Rite… they cain’t never seem at do nothing’ in a hurry.

BB: Just ceptin’ sneakin’ thangs in durin’ th dark of nite.

Jack: That‘s happened all right.

Homer: Yeah… they done sneaked them “Death Panels” back in th’ ‘Bama-care bill.

BB: Snuck ‘em back in?

Homer: Cawls ‘em ‘end of life counseling.

MizP: Law me… they needs at exterzize ’em rite back out… do they think we’s dumb?

BB: They think, Miz Pearl, tha’ut if you ain’t watchin’ you won’t never know. 

MizP: Thass turribil … Ah better give ‘em a piece of my mine…

Homer: Ah wunnet do hit Miz Pearlie….

BB: Neither wud Miz Pearl … they’s awready sayin’ we ain’t a-playin wiv a full deck.

MizP: But A’m awready tarred of ‘em a-messin us up.

Jack: This is going to be a long drawn-out battle. Just keep cool.

BB: I reckin Mr. Jack’s rite… Ah blow off steam too quik.

Jack: If the Tea Party folks and the Conservative or Independent GOP want to win… the most

Homer: The mos impawtint thang is not to over reach.

BB: Homer’s rite Miz Pearl -- Ah probly am th’ worstest …

MizP: Well A’m rite b‘hine ya Mr. Beelie… Ah don’t wanna be out foxed…

                Oh an Ah’m sorry, Mr. Beelie.. Ah got kinely fiesty las week…

BB: Ah  wuz a speakin’ too much too soon. 

Homer: Well Ah’m glad we’s a team together …

BB: Tha’s rite… we kin do a hole lot more as a team if we don’t a throwin’ mud balls at one

               ‘nother.

MizP: Miz Peelosi a-tawkin’ bout continuin th’ fite fer jobs she ain’t mentioned jobs since las summer.

Jack: We’ll  we’ve got to quit for today… see you all next week. I’m Jack Buttram.  (End) 

   

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