THE ALMANAC SAYS TODAY IS...? - for JUST A MINUTE Radio - Monday 110221

            Has it been as busy around your place as at ours?

 

            We seem to be inundated with things we are supposed to have done… or are getting ready to do – and with the warm weather… perhaps we’re supposed to have done them already! Then if you look at the weather map and see it’s six degrees or less in Minneapolis – and in the high 50’s around here about midnight… you wonder just what’s going on with the weather machine?

 

            Saturday, I even saw some (a pitifully poor number because I’m too deleterious to get the bulbs planted in the fall at the right time) jonquils or daffodils  doing their best to crawl out of their winter beds.  At least the careless forsythia that hang around our place until I can get to cultivating it properly is only putting out the bare minimum number of blooms to avoid embarrassment of the rest of us – they’re holding back.  So far, I’ve not seen fruit trees trying to posit blooms… but a few more warm days like this and we’ll have a Springtime disaster… Oh well… if we didn’t have the weather to talk about we’ll have great gobs of silence hanging around.

 

            It’s really been hard keeping up with everything going on… Egypt calming down it seems… while other places are heating up… with real live gunfire… I don’t like that… Well honestly I don’t like any of it.  Gunfire is one of the *worst* ways to say you’re going to ‘settle’ an argument.  The word may begin with an ‘s’ – but it’s more likely to be in a phrase called “spread” the argument rather than anything else.

 

            Excuse me for laughing but I picture it as hilarious to have 14 state senators from Wisconsin ‘hiding’ out from their capitol police so they won’t have to vote on a measure they think they can’t defeat.  It might be more humorous if you had a passel of “Keystone Kops” running around in Bobby hats swinging Billie clubs… But I guess really violence – even potential violence only “kicks the can further down the road” – to borrow somebody on the Democrat’s team’s vocabulary. 

 

            I don’t see where folks who are supposed to be smart enough to get elected to the State lawmaking body are OK to go running away from their legislative responsibilities or think they’re doing their constituents a favor by acting out the way they’re doing.  Perhaps Wisconsin is getting the worst because they are the first… but more states are ready to follow… and it looks like the President isn’t going to be able to haul out enough fire hoses to put out all the fires. Sometimes it happens that way in an early Spring… the woods get too dry!

 

            Well… since it’s been busy all the week… and I have an early morning meeting. I’d better get on my hobby horse and get some sleep before the early dawn.  We’ll look for you on another morning this week… if we can figure out what to call it… I think really Tuesday is George Washington’s Birthday… although I don’t think he’s gonna gripe about it a lot if you celebrate today!

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

“JUST A MINUTE”

THE ALMANAC SAYS TODAY IS… ?

            Just a Minute: -- My calendar says “President’s Day” but it’s: WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY OBSERVED. 

          Actually, harking back to the “push” to pass another extended weekend – you’ll remember they were selling the opportunity to add another holiday long week-end combining *both* president’s birthdays on the 3^rd Monday in February -- doesn’t that leave poor ‘Honest Abe’ outside in the cold February snows? 

          Now “HAIR” comes “The DONALD” horning in on CPAC’s convention. Last week the star of “The Apprentice” [or is it “Dancing with the Stars?”] – Anyway, declaring himself now a new-born’ pro-life, conservative – originally The Donald started out as a “Reagan” Republican – then aimed to be Ross Perot’s favorite in the New York Independence Party . In 2001 Trump declared he’s a Democrat to the New York Daily News because “he didn’t care” for Bush; but by 2009 he was back under the GOP’s banner and you should simply ignore the fifty thousand bucks he contributed to former Obama Chief of Staff  Rahm Emanuel’s campaign to be Mayor of Chicago.

          It’s just been a busy week.

            <>I’m Jack Buttram.

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