MOAMMAR GADHAFI COMPETES WITH ROD BLAGOJEVICH - For JUST A MINUTE Radio - Friday 110225

            Here we are at the end of another week… and it’s been a busy one both here at the home place, AND out there on the firing line.

 

            And there has been a firing line. Let’s be sure this weekend to be much in prayer for the folks in those tough places – and the ones trying to get out of Libya back to their homes. Aside from World War II, I don’t remember there being so much in the way of disaster and difficulties all around the world. 

 

            The folks in Christchurch New Zealand lost the centerpiece of their city when their cathedral’s tower and steeple were toppled.  And last evening as I checked they still were saying there are about 800 + people still missing from the city and possibly trapped in the rubble even in their cars. So they are certainly worthy of our prayers… beyond that Haiti is still in a very difficult situation… never mind the uprisings in the Middle East – with warships from Iran sitting in Syrian docks. 

 

            The weather continues to be chilly but not the severe cold that still grips the upper mid-West… From what New England friends tell me this weather would foretell a big crop of maple syrup if it will warm up enough for the sap to run and the workers to be able to get in the wood to bring the syrup back to the furnace and pans where it has to be boiled down to the finished product. It’s been a difficult winter in many places and not over yet.

 

            There’s still one more place where the difficulties are rather large and that’s Ireland. They have – like Greece – come upon hard times financially and with impending economic collapse.  Ireland was just starting to pull itself out of the economic difficulties when the recession hit – and made everything difficult again.  I read one of the national papers yesterday and they say the exodus from Ireland rivals the same kinds of leaving the ‘home country’ as it did back during the potato famine and before. So there’s another place to pray for.

 

            We’re trying something a little different here at JUST A MINUTE. I finally broke down and forked out the $$$ to purchase a better microphone. For 7 or 8 years now I’ve used a little five-dollar condenser mike – which is OK for ‘bare bones’ communication – and only someone with a skilled ear (that’s an intriguing picture… a “skilled” ear… sounds like it’s made out of stainless steel) can probably notice a lot of difference.  When I was involved with a lot of audio recording years ago…I could tell by ear, which kind of mike we were using without having to look … but that skill is about gone now.

            Anyway… I scouted around, read reviews etc… and purchased one I thought would fill the bill… (and I still think it will) but my recording digital computer  program is so sophisticated… and complicated… and I’m so much behind the times… it’s taking a while to train the ear and the fingers and find all the buttons that need adjusting to make it sound a bit better.  Of course it would be better if one started out with a ‘good’ voice… I’ve heard Bobby-Mac say his is thin… I’m sort of in the same category… But that’s shop talk…I think you’ll still be able to understand things OK… just be a little patient and understanding of us older ‘folk’ –

 

            Well.. have a great weekend… see you Monday, Lord willing, and lets not forget to pray for those who are really in need. God bless you.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Barbara and Jack Buttram

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MOAMMAR GADHAFI COMPETES WITH ROD BLAGOJEVICH

            Just a Minute: -- Figuring out what Mommar Gadhafi will do or say next follows closely behind whatever’s happening with Rod Blagojevich as he strolls toward his re-trial as the former Governor of Illinois. A federal judge said Thursday that he might have to assign a federal marshal to post no-trespassing signs before homes of jurors since reporters have staked out jurors homes and are creating disturbances in the Chicago neighborhoods.

          The judge has thrown out several charges against Blagojevich but there are still twenty or so charges to be tried against “Blago” – as he is called by TV personalities – who seems un-worried… continuing on his breezy way – even appearing in TV commercials endorsing pistachio nuts.

          Meanwhile Col. Gadhafi unleashes mercenaries upon his own people as his military personnel demur from firing on the Libyan populace.  Gadhafi in costume and sunglasses shows up and makes rambling speeches in which he asserts he ought to be able to stay in power as long as Queen Elizabeth has in Great Britain.

          Let us ask the Lord in mercy to soon relieve the suffering of those people.

          <> I’m Jack Buttram           (END)

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