SO CHICAGO TOPS WASHINGTON IN THE SNOW, EH? - Just a Minute Radio for Thursday 110127

            So – there’s a lot going on, even though January seems to be a hectic but not particularly pleasant month to be out and about.

 

            My guess is (although I haven’t looked it up) in the early days they delayed inaugurating a new President until March mainly to get out of the way of the winter weather in January.  But we, even in my memory, have had some doozy of a snowfall in March… So… whattaya do about it anyway?

 

            I didn’t mean to make fun of the CEO for getting stuck in the snow on Wednesday evening coming back from Wisconsin.  (Talk about snow… I’ve *seen* snow in Minnesota in January.  Actually we were in Upper Michigan… the Keweenaw Peninsula  -- it’s the little finger sticking out in Lake Superior and does it get *snow*… the answer is on a billboard up there…) Their record snowfall for one winter – 1931 I think – is right at 13 FEET!

 

            The excursion’s purpose was to shoot some scenes for a Christian film called “Captive Faith” detailing the Siberian Prison camp of the USSR… along with a bit of biography of its most well-known prisoner – Georgie Vins . And they needed a LOT of snow.  The Keweenaw Peninsula has a *lot of snow* believe me. The airplane gas tanks which we used, were rubberized canvas which managed to freeze and crack after we got back. They had to be replaced. I thought *I* needed to be replaced!

 

            But this week’s experience when the Presidential motorcade was delayed in getting in from the old “Andrews AFB” in suburban Maryland where they hanger the AF One fleet of 747’s.  It’s been renamed I understand – some conglomeration of Joint Base and Naval Air Facility… I’ll leave it up to the DoD to sort all that out… I’m sure the Air Force, Marines, Navy and possibly the Army and Coast Guard have some call on the facility…The history goes Waaaaay back.

 

            Anyway… there’s a lot to catch up on in DC. I was watching a televised replay of the beginning of a hearing of the House Budget Committee… and all this “work together” language gets swept away when they start getting down to business. It comes down to who has the numbers of people… and are they there and able to hold up their part of the argument *within* the time frame allotted to each side.

 

            I never worked on the House side of the Capitol.  They have to have more rules because that’s a 4xlarger group -- 435 people --  plus assorted other representatives of Puerto Rico and the various small island entities like those scattered out in the Pacific.  They all must be housed somewhere, and provided for… that’s what a small bit of the national budget goes for. 

 

            It looks to me like America has just grown out of its pants… and one of these days someone is going to try and propose a whole lot of new decision making processes and we’ll *really* be off to the races then. Character must win the day – or we’ll end up just like Rome or any of the other ancient capitols.

 

            The saving fact is America’s *people* are the bosses -- and if they become inattentive enough and let enough people steal away the blessedness the Lord has given us with our government so far that’ll be the end – well that’s the way it is. The major power to hold America to what we have known heretofore in government that’s affordable and works in my opinion is prayer.  If the majority of Americans decide the game isn’t worth the candle… then it will all go down the drain piece by piece just like it has happened to the governments in Europe and Africa and other parts of the world have seen.  We aren’t in some steel and plastic indissoluble bubble.

 

            We’re people… and if enough of us become barbarians… we have only to look up the history of Rome to see what that looks like.  If enough cling to Christ and His church – the body of Christ – and HIS WAY – we’ll be all right and able to withstand Satan’s attacks.  But when character, and love, and mercy are undermined – that spells the end of life and freedom as we know it.  America does not of itself hold a charmed place in the history of the world.

 

            This is my Father’s world – and I suggest you may want to look up the words to that hymn if you really want to know what to be looking for. That will give you a general idea. Of course the Bible is GOD’S WORD.  And no matter how the rest of the world may attack it and all that… It IS a sacred book given by God… all the evidence points that way … and we have the witness of the Spirit of God that bears out the same truth.  Those are the foundations to which we must cling.

 

            God bless you… IN HIM

 

            Cordially,

 

            Barbara and Jack Buttram

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SO CHICAGO TOPS WASHINGTON IN THE SNOW, EH?

            Just a Minute: - The President, mocking Washington’s fumble in trying to handle a tad of snow, spent an hour in his stranded motorcade traveling from “Andrews AFB” (re-named Joint-Base One) to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue attempting to get back home in a mad dash back from Wisconsin on Wednesday evening.

          He learned “Mother Nature” -- having deposited a scant two inches of ‘white stuff’ -- tied up the Chief Executive who allows they don’t ever cancel school in Chicago.  But Presidential motorcades are not immune from getting stuck in snowy D.C. traffic.  Usually it’s barely a ten minute helicopter trip aboard Marine One, but proved to be almost an hour on D.C. sleety slip’n’slide streets.

          Mr. Obama previously mocked the Capital’s fumbling with winter weather compared to Chicago. He had joked about his daughters getting a “snow day” off from school because of a little “ice.” In January of ’09 he had dubbed locals as “weather wimps” saying his seven-year-old said they even went out in the snow for recess.

          And so – friends – When the President got shut down it opened up another “Cold War!”

          <>I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

 

 

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